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 spe [...]
World open-sources ProveKit to bring private ID checks to everyday smartphones
The technology behind World ID can let people prove their age, nationality or possession of a valid ID without handing over the personal information behind it World is opening up one of the privacy te [...]
OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads Self-Service Access to India and Europe
OpenAI announced on August 31, 2026, that ChatGPT Ads has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate less than 200 days after launch, and that self-service ad buying through Ads Manager would op [...]
Microsoft takes Agent 365 out of preview as shadow AI becomes an enterprise threat
Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge aro [...]
Engadget Podcast: iPhone Air and 17 reviews, Meta throws a screen on smart glasses
We're still in iPhone mode this week, as all of our reviews of Apple's new hardware are rolling out. In this episode, Senior Writer Sam Rutherford joins us to chat about his experience with [...]
Notion Mail is a powerful but lightweight email client for busy people
A few years ago, I gave up on my Gmail inbox. I used to be meticulous. I would assign labels to every new email that came in, starring those that I wanted to find later easily. But between a job in jo [...]
Reddit fined $19.6 million over age verification checks in the UK
A common theme in online age verification laws is the tension between user privacy and preventing children from accessing harmful or inappropriate content. Now the UK is sending a not-so-subtle messag [...]