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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 […]
Microsoft Expands Copilot Cowork to Frontier Program, Upgrades Researcher With Multi-Model Intelligence
Microsoft is opening Copilot Cowork to a broader set of enterprise customers through its Frontier program, the company announced today—the latest step in its bet that AI should stop answering questions and start finishing work. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude, Copilot Cowork lets users delegate complex tasks to an AI agent that plans and executes work […]
Bluesky Thinks AI Can Fix What Platforms Broke on Social Media
Bluesky has introduced an agentic social app on the AT Protocol called Attie. It’s a standalone experiment that lets users create custom feeds by describing in plain language what they want to see. Announced at the ATmosphere conference, Attie is currently invite-only and appears to be Bluesky’s inaugural foray into AI. Jay Graber, who recently […]
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 […]
Why SAP Is Partnering With the Nonprofit That Helped Build the Open Internet
Enterprise data has a trust problem. As AI agents begin making business decisions autonomously, that problem is about to get very expensive. To solve this, SAP is enlisting the help of the Open Data Institute (ODI), a nonprofit think tank founded by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, dedicated to advancing […]
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 […]
Palo Alto Networks Brings AI Agent Support to Prisma Browser with Selectable LLMs
On the same day Palo Alto Networks announced that its Prisma Browser is now available for small- and medium-sized businesses, the cybersecurity firm also unveiled updates for its secure browser app that add support for AI agents. As Chief Executive Nikesh Arora puts it, this new iteration is now “more capable in terms of ability […]
Palo Alto Networks Expands Prisma Browser Beyond Enterprises to Protect SMBs From AI-Driven Threats
Artificial intelligence is moving closer to the edge, with the browser emerging as a key battleground. Startups like Perplexity and The Browser Company are building agentic browsers, while Google and Microsoft are adding AI capabilities to Chrome and Edge, enabling agents to navigate apps, fill forms, and execute workflows like a human. Palo Alto Networks […]