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SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone

Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a […]

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SpeakON Ships a MagSafe AI Voice Button With Its Own Microphone: Turning Your Voice into Polished Communication, and Action across Apps

Voice input on phones has been solved for years. What has not been solved is the output. Speak into most dictation tools and you get back exactly what you said, fillers and false starts included, in a note you then have to clean up and move somewhere else. SpeakON attacks that gap with hardware: a

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How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby Walsh

From a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity?Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic after just four months. In an announcement on X, he stated: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of

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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5: Fable 5.1-Level Performance at 40% Lower Running Cost Than Opus 5

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new Claude 5.5 family. The team states it performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work. It also costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads at default settings. On Anthropic’s own benchmarks, it leads in agentic coding,

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Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?

Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us?Her name was June. June would be the last month she ever knew.I remember the way her bed made her so small, swallowed her up in the middle of

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Nick Clegg could make £30m windfall from datacentre startup Nscale flotation

The former UK deputy prime minister is a board member of the UK-based company and owns 917,000 sharesNick Clegg could make approximately $40m (£30m) from the planned float of Nscale as the UK-based datacentre company prepares for a US stock market listing.The former UK deputy prime minister owns more than 917,000 shares in the startup,

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The world freaked out about AI doomsday. Now what?

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet each other next week, but it’s unlikely they’ll agree to AI regulationHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you while reading and disagreeing with Jenny Odell’s 2019 book How to Do Nothing. I’m pro-screen time. Today in

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These journalists share vital reporting with thousands of US immigrants – all by text and WhatsApp

Independent outlets are leaning on social media, chat and other nontraditional methods to fight disinformationWhen Allan Marrero, an asylum-seeker from the Cayman Islands, was released after five months in immigration detention, there was only one journalist he invited to his celebration: Eileen Grench, a reporter with the independent, non-profit news outlet Documented.Grench had previously reported

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Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?

As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology responsiblyI’m sitting in a small boat in Shark Bay, Australia, eavesdropping on a conversation between some of Earth’s most intelligent beings. The motor is off, the turquoise sea is glassy, and Stephanie King and I are motionless, transfixed

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George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain

Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI techUK politics live – latest updatesDatacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Osborne has said in reaction to nationwide protests about the giant water-and-energy guzzling structures.The Tory former chancellor is now the head of AI for countries at OpenAI,

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