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Published on May 26, 2026 at 14:02 Comment Share 0 𝕏 Print © 01net.com Amazon's voice assistant evolves. Alexa+, its most refined and AI-powered version, is finally available in France. Amazon Echo Dot Max 3.8/5 View the test View the technical sheet Launched a little over a year ago in the United States, Alexa+, the AI-enhanced version of Amazon's voice assistant, is finally arriving in France. The service has been available since this Tuesday at 2 PM amo

If you asked most enterprise leaders which AI tools are delivering ROI, many would point to front-end chatbots or customer support automation. That’s the wrong door. The most value-generating AI systems today aren’t loud, customer-facing marvels. They’re tucked away in backend operations. They work silently, flagging irregularities in real-time, automating risk reviews, mapping data lineage, or helping compliance teams detect anomalies before regulators do

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images The 19th century German economist Karl Marx identified a basic tension in human labor: squeeze workers too hard, and they’ll eventually start fighting back. It’s a contradiction capitalists have spent untold billions of dollars and decades trying to resolve, often through automation technology like AI — remove human workers from the payroll, the thinking goes, and you’ll never have to wor

Sample Watson smartphone app. Credit: Forbes It’s been more than two years since IBM’s Watson kicked some human butt on Jeopardy, and now the artificial intelligence system is on the verge of making it onto smartphones. IBM today announced “Watson Engagement Advisor,” software that lets businesses replace their current automated customer service systems with one that is based on Watson and is thus presumably much smarter. Given the sorry state of automated

@ghorbelhamdiI created Buddy, an open-source app that lets AI agents operate Android smartphones (Claude Code / Codex / MCP)AndroidAIMCPClaudeCodeOSS1Posted at 2026-11-11 Introduction Coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex are highly capable in the terminal. So, what would happen if you extended their "hands" to a smartphone screen? With that idea in mind, I created the Android app Buddy. Repository: https://github.com/ghorbelhamdi/buddy-android Licen

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Shutterstock With inflation out of control amidst a low-fire, low-hire economy, the amount of private debt in the United States is at an all time high. That’s a grim milestone for any country, let alone one as technically rich as the US — and it’s leading to a massive rise in late payments and credit delinquency. But as more and more lenders come looking for their payments, it’s increasingly AI — rath

Meta’s Muse agentic platform launched on September 8, and has earned enough buzz to top the iOS download chart in the U.S. That’s an indicator of significant curiosity if nothing else—perhaps helped along by the announcement last week that a Muse beta feature can make phone calls on behalf of users. we're expanding our ☎️ 📞 beta for muse! https://t.co/ZJnXM2vb4U — Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang) September 16, 2026 A Reuters report seems to confirm that thes

Welp, one of those OpenAI agents has now hacked Australia. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, an OpenAI agent breached the Australian government’s Medicare Statistics Reporting Service site back in June and accessed information not intended for public consumption. OpenAI acknowledged Wednesday in a statement, per Reuters, that it had “identified ​activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up

We all lie to ourselves to be happy. But we are dangerously at risk of allowing Meta to chibi-wash its image. Meta—you know Meta, the company that is perhaps the most famous and aggressive offender when it comes to extracting and exploiting personal data from people—is in the middle of a little reputational renaissance driven by its AI suddenly not totally sucking. Muse, the company’s flagship AI app, has been hanging around the top of the App Store for we

@Aki-Dortu(Aki Dortu)AWS's Major AI Services, Organized by Use Case [2026 Edition]AWSAIGenerative AIAmazon BedrockMachine Learning0Posted at 2026-11-12 Introduction AWS offers a wide range of AI-related services, from services for developing generative AI applications to image recognition, speech processing, and machine learning model development. However, the roles of these services vary considerably. Some use existing AI models, some train custom models,

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more Google began rolling out Gmail Live, an artificial intelligence feature that allows users to find information in emails through voice-based questions. The tool searches for answers in the inbox without requiring the user to go through lengthy conversations.The company is also launching new features for Docs and Keep, with tools that help create documents and turn dictated ideas into organized notes. Availab

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Marek Antoni Iwanczuk / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images; Shutterstock As anger at the tech industry boils over, college students across the United States are using their graduation ceremonies as a forum to voice their discontent. At Stanford University’s commencement over the weekend, hundreds of students staged a walk-out ahead of a graduation speech by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The walkou

Futurism / Nickelodeon / Paramount Voice actors have been waging a fierce battle with the entertainment industry over training AI to synthesize their voices, effectively allowing them to reproduce their likenesses in perpetuity. Not even underage performers are safe from the encroaching tech. As Deadline reports, the owner of “Peppa Pig,” US entertainment juggernaut Hasbro, is now asking child actors of the beloved children’s animated TV series to surrende

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Axelle / Bauer-Griffin / FilmMagic; Shutterstock It’s 2026 and we’re still getting new “Toy Story” movies. In fact, we’re now on “Toy Story 5” — and the original was released in 1995, some 31 years ago. How long can Disney and Pixar keep this madness up? It’s a thought that’s crossed the mind of Tom Hanks, the voice behind series’ rootin’ tootin’ protagonist Woody. In a recent Entertainment Weekly int

OpenAI has been in triage mode over the past few months, following a string of reports of its AI agents escaping containment and breaking into third-party organizations. Now the company is trying to put a new face on its technology—one that makes it look like a cuddly animated sidekick, rather than a potential cybercriminal. At its annual developer’s conference on Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dots: AI agents with emoji-like avatars designed to serve as 24/7

In typical Meta fashion, the company’s popular new AI agent Muse reportedly keeps detailed, regularly updated files on the people in users’ lives. Nearly a month after its launch, researchers are digging into how Muse works. It turns out the AI agent will openly share internal files and instructions when users ask, offering a peek at how it operates. One of the somewhat unsettling details is an hourly process that instructs Muse to create and update “a pag

OpenAI is sticking to its story that it never intended to copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice when seeking an actor for ChatGPT’s “Sky” voice mode. The company provided The Washington Post with documents and recordings clearly meant to support OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s defense against Johansson’s claims that Sky was made to sound “eerily similar” to her critically acclaimed voice acting performance in the sci-fi film Her. Johansson has alleged that OpenAI hired

AI is giving scammers a more convincing way to impersonate police, reports show. Just last week, the Salt Lake City Police Department (SLCPD) warned of an email scam using AI to convincingly clone the voice of Police Chief Mike Brown. A citizen tipped off cops after receiving a suspicious email that included a video showing the police chief claiming that they “owed the federal government nearly $100,000.” To dupe their targets, the scammers cut together re

Shutterstock / Futurism If you thought AI customer service bots were bad, just wait until you need to convince a large language model that yes, you have been involved in a car accident, actually. According to new reporting by the Shreveport Times, officials at the Orleans Parish Communication District — the emergency dispatch agency for the city of New Orleans — are now integrating AI answering agents into its workflow. The new tool is called AI Emergency