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Google quietly launched "AI Edge Eloquent," an offline-first dictation app for iOS that cleans up your speech and removes filler words. The app uses local Gemini models to transform rambling speech into polished text, with options for "Key points," "Formal," "Short," and "Long" formatting. It can import keywords from Gmail and work completely offline once the models download. Continue Reading →

One of the most important news items this morning is about Anthropic's decision to force third-party harnesses (Claws) to pay for compute with tokens (as opposed to being included in monthly subscription plans). Continue Reading →

Murphy Campbell is a folk singer from the mountains of western North Carolina. She plays banjo and dulcimer, records old Appalachian ballads (some written by distant relatives), and posts videos of herself performing in the woods. She has about 7,800 monthly listeners on Spotify. She is exactly the kind of artist the music industry’s copyright infrastructure was designed to protect. Continue Reading →

Google just opened Google Vids to anyone with a Google account. The AI-powered video creation tool now lets free users generate up to 10 high-quality video clips each month using Veo 3.1. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get custom music generation via Lyria 3, as well as customizable AI avatars and increased limits: Pro subscribers get 50 videos per month, while AI Ultra subscribers get up to 1,000 video generations per month. Continue Reading →

OpenAI is partnering with advertising automation platform Smartly to bring conversational ads to ChatGPT. These interactive ad units will respond to users directly, turning advertisements into secondary chatbot dialogues within ChatGPT's interface. Continue Reading →

Through a packaging error, Anthropic accidentally published roughly 512,000 lines of internal source code for Claude Code, its AI coding assistant. Within hours, the code was scraped, mirrored, and shared more than 100,000 times. Continue Reading →

Matt Cortland used AI voice cloning to call every pub in Ireland and ask about Guinness prices. His AI agent "Rachel" made more than 3,000 calls to create the "Guinndex," a real-time price tracker for pints across the country. Continue Reading →

Gartner calls agent management platforms "the most valuable real estate in AI." The firm projects enterprises will spend $15 billion on this category by 2029, up from less than $5 million today. That is 3,000x growth in four years. If you have been in meetings where someone uses the phrase "managed agents" and nobody quite knows what it means, you are watching a category emerge in real time. Continue Reading →

English Wikipedia just banned the use of large language models for writing or rewriting articles. The vote was 44-2. The policy passed a Request for Comment on March 20 and allows only two narrow exceptions: editors can use LLMs for basic copyediting of their own writing, and they can use LLMs to assist with translation. In both cases, the editor must verify the output for accuracy. Continue Reading →

Anthropic just shipped "auto mode" for Claude Code. According to the company, users approve 93% of permission prompts without reading them. The guardrails had become a rubber stamp, and everyone knew it. Continue Reading →