Miso Labs Releases MisoTTS: An 8B Emotive Text-to-Speech Model with Open Weights
Miso Labs has released MisoTTS, an open-weights 8B text-to-speech model. It uses residual vector quantization (RVQ) to scale its sonic range without scaling parameters, and conditions on both text and audio context to respond to speaker tone. The architecture pairs a 7.7B backbone with a 300M depth ...
Meet OpenJarvis: A Local-First Framework for On-Device Personal AI Agents with Tools, Memory, and Learning
Stanford researchers released OpenJarvis, an open-source framework that runs inference, agents, memory, and learning entirely on-device. It decomposes a personal AI system into five composable primitives — Intelligence, Engine, Agents, Tools & Memory, and Learning — and lands within 3.2 points of th...
AI Weekly Issue #499: Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B
Microsoft used its own developer conference to show it can live without OpenAI, Florida's attorney general sued OpenAI and went after Sam Altman personally, researchers and a new Workday product made plain that nobody trusts AI agents yet, and Alphabet raised a record $85 billion the same week the F...
Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B: An Encoder-Free Multimodal Model with Native audio that runs on a 16 GB laptop
Gemma 4 12B feeds vision and audio straight into the LLM backbone, running locally under an Apache 2.0 license.
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Amazon will show AI product images when you search for some reason
Amazon will use visual search and AI to show AI generated product images that match your search queries. The retailer says it will help guide users to products.
Publishers will be able to opt out of AI Search, thanks to new regulation
U.K. regulators are requiring Google offer a tool allowing website publishers to opt-out of generative AI search features. The option will be tested in the UK then rolled out globally.
AI Reality Check: AI-Driven Pricing - How Companies Quietly Manipulate Markets
AI-driven pricing is reshaping markets through algorithmic collusion, personalized price discrimination, and behavioral manipulation—often without oversight.
How Wasmer used Codex to build a Node.js runtime for the edge
See how Wasmer used Codex with GPT-5.5 to build a Node.js runtime for the edge, accelerating development 10x to 20x and shipping in weeks instead of months.
As syntax becomes cheap and abundant, architectural control becomes the scarce resource. Effective governance starts upstream, where intent, constraints, and threat models shape the agent’s working context before generation begins. The goal isn’t better prompting but build-time boundaries that preve...
Nous Research Releases Hermes Desktop: A Native Cross-Platform Front End for Hermes Agent v0.15.2 with Streaming Tool Output
Hermes Desktop is a no-terminal GUI sharing one agent core, skills, and memory with the Hermes Agent CLI.
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NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3: A Two-Tower Mixture-of-Transformers Foundation Model Unifying Physical Reasoning, World Generation, and Action Generation
NVIDIA released Cosmos 3, open omnimodal world models pairing an autoregressive VLM reasoner with a diffusion generator for physical AI.
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MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts
The new ChartNet training dataset could improve the accuracy of vision-language models that help analyze business trends or interpret scientific figures.
TinyFish Launches BigSet: An Open-Source Multi-Agent System That Builds Structured Live Datasets from Plain-English Descriptions
Describe a dataset in one sentence; Bigset's orchestrator and parallel sub-agents research the live web and return structured tables.
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Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial recognition feature
The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.
Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections
After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work...