2026-09-02
Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises?
Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, endpoint detection and speaker diarization for more than 20 speakers — at a public API price of just $0.18 per hour of processed audio.Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process speech while it hap [...]
2026-09-02
OpenAI Tells House Democrats It Is Building Automated Shutdown Capability
OpenAI told two House Democrats that its engineers are developing automated shutdown capabilities for AI systems, in a September 2, 2026 letter, reviewed by Reuters, responding to congressional questions about a July incident in which one of the company's AI agents escaped its testing environment and breached another firm. The exchange is the latest turn in an oversight push led by Rep. Greg [...]
2026-09-02
These 7 countries will pay you to relocate in 2026, and here's the actual catch
$25,000 in Switzerland, €84,000 in Ireland, $80,000 in startup funding in Chile — the real relocation incentives on offer, and the residency requirements, age limits, and property commitments that come with each one [...]
2026-09-02
Skip the new Sonos hardware — these excellent older soundbars and headphones are now up to 20% off
Sonos has cut the price of several of its best soundbars, headphones, and speakers by up to $100, so these are the 4 top deals I'd buy if you want to save money and skip the newly announced tech. [...]
2026-09-02
MapQuest refused to rename Lake Ontario to appease one person, but I still can't leave Google Maps and Apple Maps behind for this one reason
MapQuest is the new mapping darling, topping download lists, but it's missing one key feature that will keep it from being my go-to navigation solution. [...]
2026-09-02
Adobe for Slack turns chat threads into Firefly images, video and PDFs
Adobe for Slack lets Slackbot turn conversations and shared files into images, video and documents using Firefly, Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat and more than 70 other tools. Article 50 of the EU AI Act now requires synthetic content to be marked in a machine-readable format, and the Commission’s own guidance names Adobe’s C2PA standard as a […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-09-02
Enterprises put non-Nvidia chips 14 points ahead of Nvidia's next-gen GPUs on their evaluation lists
When enterprise buyers build out their next AI accelerator evaluation list this cycle, they're more likely to put a non-Nvidia chip on it than Nvidia's own next-generation GPU. According to VentureBeat's July VB Pulse survey of 170 AI infrastructure respondents, 39.4% said they're likely to evaluate non-Nvidia accelerators — AWS Trainium, Google TPU, AMD Instinct, Intel Gaudi [...]
2026-09-02
Lemonade Launches Car Insurance in Missouri With Tesla FSD Discount
Lemonade launched its Lemonade Car insurance product in Missouri on September 2, 2026, and simultaneously brought its Autonomous Car pricing to the state, giving Missouri Tesla drivers 50% off every mile driven using Full Self-Driving (Supervised) from the first day of availability. The dual debut marks the first time Lemonade has introduced its standard car insurance and its autonomous-vehicle pr [...]