Stop Using Your Keyboard and Start Using This Simple, Free Speech-to-Text App

You can pick a custom keyboard shortcut, and you can decide to simply press that shortcut instead of pressing and holding it.

Amazon’s AI assistant comes to the web with Alexa.com

Amazon is bringing Alexa+ to the web with a new Alexa.com site, expanding its AI assistant beyond devices and positioning it ...

Build a Fast Offline AI Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5

Build a fast, private offline chatbot on Raspberry Pi 5 with the RLM AA50, 24 TOPS, and 8GB DDR4 to get instant voice replies ...
The Verge

Google Translate brings real-time speech translations to any headphones

Live speech translations were once only on the Pixel Buds. Live speech translations were once only on the Pixel Buds. It’s one of a few new features coming to Google Translate, along with improved ...
9to5google

Google updating Search Live with Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio

Google today announced the latest version of Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio. In addition to Google Translate for live headphones translation, AI Mode’s Search Live will benefit from these model ...

Chatbots find their voice as audio assistants rise

Siri, Alexa and other virtual assistants are turning from clunky robots into smart agents, while $500 bln OpenAI may be ...
Gizmodo

Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger

If you think of something to say and say it, that could never be AI slop, right? In theory, all organically grown utterances and snippets of text are safe from that label. But our shared linguistic ...
Newsweek

CBP’s Immigrant Facial Recognition App Disappears From Google Play Store

An app rolled out by the Trump administration allowing local police to use facial recognition technology to identify illegal immigrants has been pulled from the Google Play Store, it was reported ...
Wall Street Journal

Sam Altman’s Sprint to Correct OpenAI’s Direction and Fend Off Google

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the dramatic call for a “code red” last week to beat back a rising threat from Google, he put a notable priority at the top of his list of fixes. The world’s most ...
Search Engine Land

What is AI, actually, and how is it affecting SEO?

If it feels like the entire internet woke up one day and decided to start every sentence with “AI,” you’re not wrong. Marketers are being hit with a daily wave of LinkedIn thought leaders, half-baked ...
The Atlantic

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. The president of the United States just barged into America’s ...
The New York Times

Why You’re Better Than a Computer at Solving Connections

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...