PCWorld’s reporter tested Sesame’s new AI voice app and found it delivers the most human-like conversational experience available, using Google’s Gemma 4 LLM and custom speech models. The app performs ...

Instagram is expanding its AI-powered effects for voice notes to more users, growing the feature from eight effects at its India launch in March to 15, including a new Goal! filter tied to the FIFA ...

In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered. But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, ...

In 1975, organizational psychologist Steven Kerr published a now-classic essay titled “On the Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B.” Its central argument still stings: Organizations say they want ...

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference on Tuesday to announce a new family of in-house AI models, alongside a slew of other news. The announcements, delivered during CEO Satya Nadella's ...

AI is getting expensive, and some companies are cutting back on usage in an attempt to moderate costs. That cohort includes Uber, which recently instituted internal usage caps as a way to cut down on ...

Aliyah, a light-skinned Black woman dressed in country-western gear, is struggling to sell metal buckles she handmade on TikTok. In a video for the social media platform from March, she cries to the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and a Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote ...

Apple is promising AI today, not tomorrow — so how is the tech industry reacting to Monday's keynote announcements? With a mix of hope, excitement and skepticism. WWDC26 felt like a defining platform ...

At its Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced MAI-Code-1-Flash, its inaugural model in the AI coding space. Microsoft is trying to establish a presence with proprietary ...

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Anthropic (ANTHRO) believes that if artificial intelligence models continue to improve at the rate they are now, humans could become the bottleneck that stalls AI progress. "The evidence suggests that ...