Meta recently launched its Muse agents – a new generation of cuddly agentic helpers. Now, the company has launched Spaces, a new way to communicate and collaborate with them.
As far as I can tell, Spaces are basically breakout conversations that revolve around a particular topic – although Meta refers to them as “custom experiences.” They live in the sidebar of the…
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Democrats’ historic victory in this week’s midterm elections could also have a dramatic effect on the tech industry.
In dozens of local ballot measures, voters rejected data centers. And even when they weren’t…
Companies are using more AI than ever, but they’re not spending more on it.
A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and…
Underdog shows off a 32MB speech model in new demo
November 7, 2026
AI companies across the world are racing to make bigger and better models, but the problem is all of them need massive amounts of processing power. On the other end, some researchers and startups are creating smaller models that can run on edge devices, like your phone or computer.
One such startup, Underdog, has released a game built with its new voice model called Woof that’s only 32MB…
Alex de Vigan’s last business got swamped by the rise of generative AI, but now he’s betting the tech that team had built, a platform for creating tempting product renderings for e-commerce, can be re-purposed to make robots more useful.
His new venture, Physicl…
Hardware startup Aina released a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes. The $399 ring has a speaker so you can take calls using it as well.
The startup, which raised $5.5 million in July, is…
Discovered Materials, a months-old San Francisco startup using AI models to find new substances for building advanced chips, announced a million-dollar challenge for AI models to solve five critical problems in materials science.
While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the…
Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market. Are you buying?
November 6, 2026
Almost a year ago to the day, Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock responded to some gentle social media taunting from rival robotics company Agility with a prediction: “You’ll be bankrupt in <12 months.”
Instead, Agility is going public through a reverse merger…
DuckDuckGo is pitching itself to schools after Google created an opening for the alternative search engine. On Tuesday, Google told schools they could turn off Gemini, but it said shutting off its other AI features would cost schools Google Search, as well.
DuckDuckGo, a…
On Tuesday, Apple rolled out a potentially controversial set of Audio Intelligence features into testing with the first developer beta versions of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3. The betas bring four new AI features that allow Apple Watch Series 12 wearers to detect important sounds, identify songs, catch up on conversations, and take notes.
After just a day with Apple’s Siri Recaps feature on my…
