Category: AI & Automation


  • Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Hugging Face, the AI startup valued at over $4 billion, has introduced FastRTC, an open-source Python library that removes a major obstacle for developers when building real-time audio and video AI applications. “Building real-time WebRTC and…

  • 2025 has already brought us the most performant AI ever: What can we do with these supercharged capabilities (and what’s next)?

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The latest AI large language model (LLM) releases, such as Claude 3.7 from Anthropic and Grok 3 from xAI, are often performing at PhD levels — at least according to certain benchmarks. This accomplishment marks the…

  • Micron launches new memory chips to keep up with AI processing

    Micron announced its first 1y (1-gamma) DDR5 memory chip samples this week, and it says this is part of its contribution to systems that keep up with AI processing. The company said being the first to market with 1y samples proves Micron’s continued technology and manufacturing leadership — and the Boise, Idaho-based company is extending…

  • A New ChatGPT, the Death of Skype … and More

    The Small Biz Breakdown crew is back this week with more fascinating discussions on some of the hottest topics in small business. Our panel talks about the latest model release from OpenAI, ChatGPT-4.5, and they’re always open to talking about how AI is taking over more aspects of our lives. The crew also talks about…

  • Nvidia CEO: Someday we’ll have 1B robotic cars on the road

    Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicted that someday we’ll have a billion cars on the road and they will all be robotic cars. It sounds like science fiction, but as Huang has said before, “I am science fiction.” He made the comments in a conference call with analysts about Nvidia’s FYQ4 earnings ending January 26, 2025.…

  • Rebuilding Alexa: How Amazon is mixing models, agents and browser-use for smarter AI

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Amazon is betting on agent interoperability and model mixing to make its new Alexa voice assistant more effective, retooling its flagship voice assistant with agentic capabilities and browser-use tasks. This new Alexa has been rebranded to…

  • Microsoft’s new Phi-4 AI models pack big performance in small packages

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft has introduced a new class of highly efficient AI models that process text, images and speech simultaneously while requiring significantly less computing power than other available systems. The new Phi–4 models, released today, represent a…

  • You.com unveils AI research agent that processes 400+ sources at once

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More You.com launched a new artificial intelligence research tool today that promises to transform how businesses conduct market research by analyzing hundreds of sources simultaneously and producing comprehensive reports in minutes instead of weeks. The tool, called…

  • Weak cyber defenses are exposing critical infrastructure — how enterprises can proactively thwart cunning attackers to protect us all

    Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Direct attacks on critical infrastructure get a lot of attention, but the bigger danger often lies in something less visible: The poor cybersecurity practices of the businesses that keep these systems running. According to the Cybernews…

  • Ampere accelerates expansion into telecom networking processors

    Ampere is accelerating its expansion from Arm-based server processors for AI processing into networking chips for the telecom market. The company unveiled the ampere Altra Family of processors uniquely suited to address growing marketAmpere announced today that it is accelerating its effort to address the telecom market, bringingits high-performance, energy-efficient processors to next-generation RAN networks.…