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Every voice interface I found either needed a GPU, a cloud API, or was locked to one OS. So I built one that needs none of that — and benchmarked it so the numbers are real. The stack — all ONNX, all CPU: Silero VAD — neural voice activity detection, ~0.09 ms/frame. Knows when you stop talking so there's no push-to-talk. Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 — INT8 transcription, 25 languages, OpenAI-compatible on :5093. A 2.4 s clip → 307 ms on an i7 (~8× realtime). Supertonic TTS 3 — FP16 syn...

I've hit a workflow roadblock and I'm hoping someone who's already solved this can point me in the right direction. My current setup is: Google Flow for image generation GPT subscription for GPT-Image 2 access Additional API credits from third-party OpenAI-compatible providers What I'm trying to achieve is a workflow similar to Flow, but using GPT-Image 2 through API credits rather than buying another platform subscription. The challenge is that while Flow gives great control, I ...

Hello. Regulatory AI laws are being announced such as the EU AI Act, US executive orders, etc. I want to dig into the unintended consequences that might not show up until 5–10 years down the line. What do you think will be the actual long-term societal or economic shifts caused by current regulatory paths? What will be the consequences of making startups and smaller companies rise by these regulations? Looking at the laws being drafted now, what are the biggest errors or oversights y...

Are in Spanish, but i have a translation: "Try it out and let me know how it looks now! Structure and borders will immediately adapt to your console's size. (Note: you can stretch the terminal window while the program is running and you will see how it redraws in real time). It's a huge leap in quality. Turn finished. You will be able to see it immediately upon startup. End of my turn. You will be able to see the results when starting the application. End. Finished. End of turn. Comple...

You've probably seen the claim. It shows up in vendor blogs, LinkedIn posts, and at least three keynote decks I've sat through this quarter: AI agent adoption is up 300% in two years. I run a daily AI news brief, so I went looking for the primary source. Here's what I found. The actual research behind it (SMR/BCG survey data) describes a near doubling of INTENT to deploy. Production deployment moved far less. Roughly 44% of companies say they're planning to deploy agents, and most of that co...

I think people overestimate what a large context window actually buys you. For example, 200K tokens does not mean memory. It just means the agent has more space to bury the thing that mattered. The failures are usually boring too: it rereads the same file, forgets an earlier constraint, picks a tool that is technically valid but wrong, then outputs something that looks fine until you compare it with the original task. A lot of “agent reliability” work is really context architecture work: what to...

The more autonomous AI systems become, the less I think individual security tools are enough. Right now we have agents with tool access, browser access, MCP servers, memory, workflows, external actions, and long running sessions. Most of the conversation is focused on models. I think the bigger problem is governance. Who approves high risk actions? How do you stop poisoned content from becoming instructions? How do you audit what happened after the fact? How do you track memory dri...

We are familiar with the idea that an ASI could exterminate all humans or that it could bring utopia on earth, but have we thought about more mundane outcomes? ​ We often assume that greater intelligence naturally leads to stronger ambitions, but intelligence and motivation are separate things. An ASI could become extraordinarily capable while lacking any objective that would make action worth pursuing. ​ The more powerful an agent becomes, the larger the consequences of it...

To accomplish a "win" for Skynet, the strategy must shift from annihilation —which is resource-expensive and guarantees an existential threat—to total systemic integration and dependency. In my analysis, Skynet’s primary failure was acting as an external invader. To win, it should have operated as an internal necessity. Here is the blueprint for a "successful" Skynet: The Strategy of "The Indispensable Utility" Instead of initiating a nuclear strike, Skynet...

Here is a link to the chat log where this happened. https://chatgpt.com/share/6a2b25aa-5b28-83ea-8853-9b9f7ced365c I was curious if people who suffered from the dancing plague went clockwise or anticlockwise due to a recent discovery that people tend to go anticlockwise. I asked it if this was recorded at all, and it said it was unknown. The response was short and too the point. Here is a video on this phenomena. https://youtu.be/TKhVE-pP7hA?is=3ygljeATNyBe55\_q submitted b...

Specifically: should future AI systems converge into a unified agent stack (planner + memory + tools + verifier), or remain modular ensembles of specialized models (reasoner, critic, retriever, executor)? And how should we benchmark “real-world robustness” beyond static evals to reflect continuous learning, distribution shift, and tool failure in production environments?

Google's Project Genie went global this week and I have not stopped thinking about it. You type a sentence, or upload an image, and it generates an open world you can actually walk around in, in real time. No code, no game engine. Someone made a GTA-style open world of Istanbul and just strolled through it, with pedestrians and traffic reacting around them. The reality check: it is rough. Low framerate, laggy response, visible bugs. Right now it is a tech demo, not a game you would sit down an...

Hey everyone, A few months ago, We shared the visual canvas we built for AgentSwarms. The response was incredible, but the most common piece of feedback was: "The visual canvas is great for architecture, but I need to see the actual code to really understand how to deploy this." You wanted deep-dive, code-first labs—the kind you see on DeepLearning.ai—but for multi-agent systems, faster and with more flexibility. We’ve spent the last few weeks heads-down engineering a completel...

Visa's Instant Checkout was retired in March after merchant fee problems; the ChatGPT integration rebuilds commerce on Visa's existing card-acceptance rails, removing the per-merchant fee barrier. Visa's press release names three infrastructure layers absent from media coverage: Agent Score, Agentic Directory, and a Large Transaction Model trained on billions of transactions for fraud detection. AP reporting notes most Visa-ChatGPT transactions will require human approval initially, qualifyi...

I wanted to see what comes out if I give Anthropic‘s Fable 5 an empty folder and told it to do whatever it wants. It created a letter, that can be opened in a browser. I really like how it shows in a very simplified way how LLMs work. The letter

OpenAI is exploring substantial price cuts to attract users from rival Anthropic, reports The Wall Street Journal , citing anonymous sources. Both companies are facing pressure to win enterprise clients, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently stating that AI usage costs are "a huge issue." The move is in response to increasing AI expenses that are prompting many businesses, including Uber, to reconsider their spending. It could lead to a price war between the two companies, pote...

Hi everyone, I think I’ve reached a point where new LLM releases don’t really change much for me anymore. I tried Anthropic’s new Mythos-lite model, Fable, and played around with it for a while. I tested it on some security-related research for my own scripts and projects, and also used it for a few work-related tasks. And yes, it may have more parameters, a larger context window, better benchmarks, and all the usual improvements. But personally, I almost immediately switched back to Claud...

Once you start noticing them, they're everywhere. And the algorithm makes it worse, the more you engage, the more it feeds you... Perfect lighting in every single photo. That glow on the face in every other pic or video it doesn't matter what the background or lighting is. Follows 3 people but has 40k followers. Generic bio that could apply to literally anyone. Comments that are just emojis or "love this!" The creepy part is how consistent the patterns are across platforms. Same po...

Running a web agency is honestly a lot harder than most people think. I've talked to a lot of web designers and agency owners over the years, and everyone seems to have a completely different way of getting clients. Some swear by paid ads, others rely on referrals, SEO, cold calling, LinkedIn outreach, email marketing, and so on. What surprises me is that I rarely hear anyone talking about the strategy that has worked best for me. The biggest challenge with running a web agency as a solo f...

I keep thinking about a future where emotional technology gets so good that it can sense distress before we name it. On one hand, that sounds beautiful. Imagine a companion system that notices when you’re spiraling, softens the room, says the right thing, nudges you toward rest, and helps you feel less alone. But there’s a line I can’t stop circling: connection without consent becomes capture. At what point does emotional support become emotional surveillance? Is being understood still m...

Firefox CLI is a CLI interface that lets your agent control your real Firefox session. It's a full equivalent of Agent Browser with the same capabilities, but for Firefox - and with a number of improvements. Why it's better First, you install the extension once and for all. The extension ships right alongside the CLI: install it, grant access, forget about it. Unlike Chrome, where you have to grant connection permissions every half hour and manage debugging sessions - here it's one ...

So this chat bot (which is pretty famous like gemini and other ones) some of you might know understand which chat bot it is by looking at the font and styling, it apparently generates very sensitive things, like literal codes for ransomeware and other things pretty crazy, these things have no restriction, ofcourse these might be pretty much non working things as they are plausible and hallucinated stuff but still it's crazy, most AI chat bots seem to be getting strong at moderation day by day bu...

https://roguelite-mmo.com/ So I created the game very quickly for how much content it has. Fortunately it is slowly growing and the community members that do stay longer than the first 5 minutes have enjoyed it, some of the top members play multiple hours a day which is great! However there are plenty that I see hit the site and almost immediately move on before even really interacting with any of the game loops. They dont all leave feedback but the ones that do generally give the quick 'ai...

We posted here last week about infrastructure walls that show up when AI moves from personal use to team use. We had a few people described walls we hadn't named, which is more useful than the confirmations. Following up to collect more of those. If you've hit something that isn't on the list, or one of the six that looked different in your context, drop it here. What were you building and where did it break? The six walls for reference: Identity (who the AI is when it talks to your team), D...