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Define freshness and name an owner“Real time” sounds decisive, but meaningless without a metric. A service‑level agreement (SLA) is far more enforceable.Credit card giant Mastercard formalised “freshness” by engineering its Decision Intelligence platform to score every payment in 50ms. The AI analyses up to 160 billion transactions annually and tags each with a real‑time risk score that issuing banks can trust or override. This keeps false declines low whi

ElevenLabs Scribe v3 Live uses conversational context to stop voice agents from cutting off callers mid-sentence View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 12, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Elevenlabs has released Scribe v3 and Scribe v3 Live, two speech recognition models built for messy audio situations like crosstalk and background noise, covering both pre-recorded files and real-time use. Benchmarks from Artificial Anal

If you prefer talking over typing, the new ‘Vocal’ mode is for you.Powered by Mistral AI’s powerful new voice model called Voxtral, the Vocal mode allows for natural, low-latency conversations—meaning you can talk to Le Chat without awkward pauses. Mistral says it’s perfect for brainstorming ideas while on a walk, getting quick answers when your hands are full, or transcribing a meeting. For those really complex Le Chat questions, ‘Think’ mode taps into Mi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images When you start a “bounty” board meant for AI agents during one of the worst job markets since the great recession, don’t be surprised when it becomes infested with humans. Last week, an AI entrepreneur made a splash when he introduced a bizarre job portal to the world. Called RentAHuman, the platform is meant to connect autonomous AI agents to real people in order to complete various task

The risks posed by AI—like climate change and nuclear proliferation—are global problems in need of global solutions. And according to Bill Gates, humanity can no longer afford to wait on that front. In an essay published early Wednesday morning, the Microsoft cofounder and billionaire philanthropist wrote that the AI boom is a technological revolution unlike any other in history, with huge implications for virtually every sector of human life—from healthca

Getty / Futurism Grammarly infuriated journalists, authors, and academics with its “Expert Review” feature, which impersonated writers — both dead and alive — without their permission. In Grammar’s telling, the tool allows users to “take your writing to the next level” by making suggestions inspired by “leading professionals, authors, and subject-matter experts.” The feature, which was only accessible beyond a free trial via the company’s $12-a-month Pro s

Alex Broadway/Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty Images Grammarly’s “Expert Review” feature, which was quietly rolled out last year, angered countless journalists, authors, and academics, who found that they were being impersonated without their permission. Following an enormous backlash — and telling people being impersonated that they should email the company to opt out — Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman, made a sudden reversal. In a Wednesday Lin

Although AI-generated voices are often mistaken for human ones, they are generally perceived as less attractive. Credit: MPIEA / L. Bittner With recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), synthetic voices have become increasingly prevalent in our everyday soundscape, raising the question: Can AI voices still be distinguished from human voices, and how attractive do they sound? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA)

The fund will be invested across various sectors and multiple countries, notably the United States, India, and Israel. But the big story here is AI, and Norwest’s plans to expand its investment in this area. Norwest said Thursday it aims to capitalize on AI startups developing products and services across core industries such as consumer, healthcare, and technology. The investment firm, which has backed Plaid, Spotify, Uber, and Vuori, said it will continu

In this case, one of his lovers is suspected by the U.S. government of being a spy for China. She’s also an executive of a Singapore-based neocloud that is suspected of smuggling Nvidia chips to China. These affairs show undeniably poor judgment by Huang and, I’d argue, unchecked hubris on many levels. Such choices are not only a betrayal of his wife of 40 years, they’re also a liability for his company. Sleeping with any Nvidia partner is bad enough, but

Founded by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, both former Meta employees, Nectar came out of stealth last year and uses AI agents to help brands manage social media, customer conversations, content moderation, creator partnerships, and competitor research. Announced Thursday, its new “Creator Agent” can search for creators, check their content and brand partnerships, send personalized messages, coordinate collaborations, and monitor how campaigns perform. I

Meta’s Muse, which now has over 10 million users, the company said last month, has been working to make consumer AI a mainstream product for everyday users. Placing calls is one of the ways it aims to get there, as it could handle another task on people’s to-do lists. Notes Alexandr Wang, Meta’s chief AI officer and head of its Superintelligence Labs division, the feature could be used to take care of calls people don’t want to make, like those to their ca

VoiceSecure threats model. Credit: Nirupam Roy, University of Maryland. When you make a voice call through Zoom, FaceTime or WhatsApp, you're not just sharing what you say. You're revealing your age, gender, emotional state, social background and personality—a biometric fingerprint just as unique as your face. And increasingly, artificial intelligence is listening. "We already see phishing based on our online activities and what we type in emails," said Ni

Continues after the advertisementThe decision follows the growth in the use of the new technology. Since the arrival of GPT-Live, the number of users conversing with ChatGPT via voice has almost doubled. Additionally, almost all users who use audio features have already migrated to the model. With the closure of previous options, OpenAI aims to focus efforts on developing a single voice experience.GPT-Live also incorporates learnings from the use of Advanc

It feels like since xAI changed to SpaceX Super Intelligence, Musk hasn't made any major moves in AI for a long time. Just now, Grok Bot 1.0 version was officially released. "Robots can be shared and are more collaborative and capable than ever before." According to SpaceX Super Intelligence, the new version of Grok Bot can be shared by the entire team, can be added to Slack, Microsoft Teams, and video conferences, and will identify who is saying what, whi

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Spencer Platt / Getty Images Vibe coding often gets a bad rep. “Vibe” is a euphemism for “not really thinking,” and that “not really thinking” part is accomplished by letting an AI spit all the code out in response to natural language prompts. Inexperienced programmers use it to push out half-baked apps and sabotage their own projects, and experienced ones get lulled into making rookie mistakes. Enter

ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images/Futurism Even for an executive long known by employees as the “Eye of Sauron,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking the concept of micromanagement to its final form, the Financial Times reports, by using AI to develop a “photorealistic, AI-powered 3D” version of himself to converse with and offer feedback to employees. The dystopian effort is part of a broader push to create avatars, based on public figures, that Meta’s cust

The mechanics of the AI language humanisersAn AI language humaniser is a sophisticated software application engineered to transform text produced by large language models into prose that more closely resembles human authorship. Its primary objective is to smooth out the typical AI “tells,” like repetitive sentence structures, overly formal or generic vocabulary, and a lack of emotional depth or personal voice, making the content sound more natural and enga

Published on May 5, 2026 at 14:32 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Mariia Shalabaieva After Jony Ive's screenless gadget, OpenAI is preparing a real smartphone. With a custom MediaTek processor etched in 2 nm, mass production would target early 2027. OpenAI doesn't want to be content with just being a software provider. According to Taiwanese analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who is already well accustomed to leaks regarding American manufacturers, the company is accelerating th

Published on May 20, 2026 at 15:01 Comment 0 𝕏 Print © Google Google structured its entire I/O 2026 conference around agent AI. Behind the term, a paradigm shift: artificial intelligence no longer just generates, it pursues goals. The Google I/O conference on May 19, 2026 had only one theme: the agent era. The term appears in almost every announcement, every demonstration, every slide of Sundar Pichai's keynote, from the performances of Gemini 3.5 Flash un