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Microsoft Debuts MAI-Transcribe-1 Speech-to-Text Model That Tops Whisper, GPT, Gemini Flash
Microsoft’s AI division has been notably active in building out its first-party portfolio. It has developed everything from foundation models and vision capabilities to speech and image generation and diagnostic orchestration. Now, the company is adding another piece: MAI-Transcribe-1, a multilingual speech-to-text model that’s now available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry. MAI-Transcribe-1 is trained […]
Claude Users Say Tokens Are Disappearing Too Fast. Anthropic Isn’t Saying Much.
The more I think about it, the more I see rate-limit toggling by Anthropic and its peers as similar to the era before unlimited talk, text, and data on our smartphones. Back then, we scrambled to tell people to contact us outside peak hours so we wouldn’t use all of our allotted monthly minutes. This […]
AWS’s Frontier Agents Are Now GA—Ready to Automate Your DevOps and Security Headaches
AWS’s “Frontier Agents,” autonomous programs capable of building, securing, and operating software, have launched—well, two of them, at least. Coming nearly five months after their introduction at last year’s re:Invent conference, developers can use the AWS DevOps and Security agents to automate their delivery pipelines and protect their apps from vulnerabilities. But, for those hoping […]
Anthropic’s Demand Problem Is a Good Problem—Until It Isn’t
Has Anthropic’s “Fail Whale” moment arrived? The company announced this week on social media that, due to growing demand for Claude, users will run through their five-hour session limits much faster during peak hours. Notably, it comes days after Anthropic touted a “limited-time promotion” that doubled the usage limit for those who used Claude outside […]
Jentic Is Betting That AI’s Biggest Problem Is Your APIs
The agents are ready. The pipes aren’t. That’s the uncomfortable reality sitting underneath the AI agent boom. Enterprises are racing to deploy AI agents that can book flights, resolve customer complaints, reroute shipments, and connect systems that may have never spoken with each other before. The capability does exist. But the moment an agent takes […]
AI Token Budgets: The New Employee Benefit You Should Be Asking For
In Frank Herbert’s Dune, the axiom is simple: “He who controls the spice controls the universe.” In the AI era, the spice has a name—and it’s tokens. And as the technology continues to proliferate throughout our lives, these atomic units of AI are becoming as embedded in daily life as the dollar is. Every AI […]
Ai2 Launches MolmoWeb to Challenge Closed Web Agents with Open Source
The race to build AI agents that can actually use the web is no longer confined to Big Tech or Big AI. On Tuesday, the Allen Institute for AI stepped into the arena with MolmoWeb, an open visual web agent designed to navigate and control a browser much like a human would. Paired with MolmoWebMix—a […]
AWS Launches Kiro Students to Give College Developers Free Access to Its AI Coding Tool
Amazon Web Services is aiming to make AI-powered software development easier for early-stage developers. On Wednesday, it debuted Kiro Students, a new plan giving college students free one-year access to Kiro, AWS’s vibe coding tool. However, there is a catch: it comes with a 1,000 monthly credit limit and will initially be available only to […]
Ai2 Rethinks Robotics Training With a Simulation-First Approach to Physical AI
Researchers at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) say they’ve achieved a breakthrough in physical AI: zero-shot sim-to-real transfer. This milestone allows robotic models trained entirely in simulation to perform tasks in the real world without requiring any real-world data, making it significantly easier to move knowledge from virtual training to actual robots. To mark […]
AWS Launches Strands Labs as a Sandbox for Exploring Autonomous AI
Last summer, Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced Strands Agents, an open-source SDK that lets developers build and run AI agents with just a few lines of code. The project has since gained momentum, exceeding 14 million downloads. And now, the company is introducing its next step: Strands Labs, a new GitHub organization aimed at helping […]