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Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs currently sells. Then it priced the thing at 10 cents per hour of audio.That figure deserves a pause. When Microsoft AI shipped the first model in this line just five months…
China’s Moonshot AI has confidentially submitted an application for an initial public offering to Hong Kong’s stock exchange, people familiar with the matter said.
Anker’s new robot lawnmower might take over for your weed whacker, too. Announced at IFA 2026, the Eufy Robot Lawn Mower S2 Max comes with an extendable trimming arm to clean up the grass around your driveway and flowerbeds. The dual-blade mower offers vSLAM navigation that uses built-in cameras to build a 3D map of…
Perplexity AI open-sourced Lily, a Rust and Metal inference engine built to run a single model, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, on a single hardware family, Apple Silicon, the company confirmed on September 2, 2026. The release, first detailed by MarkTechPost, positions Lily as the local half of Hybrid Compute, the split-execution mode inside the Perplexity Computer Mac app…
Anthropic’s Agent Skills format has quietly become one of the most-searched features in the Claude ecosystem. “Claude code skills” now pulls roughly 12,100 monthly US searches, and terms like “claude skills marketplace” and “claude skills github” add thousands more, according to keyword data pulled in September 2026. Yet most of what shows up when you…
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across the workflows that run a business. Although agentic AI has been adopted by some 80% of Fortune 500 companies, progress toward meaningful scale remains…
The FBI confirmed on September 2, 2026, that it is investigating a report that digital scans of more than 153 million driver’s licenses from the United States and Canada surfaced for sale on a dark web marketplace. The disclosure, first reported by security journalist Brian Krebs of KrebsOnSecurity and picked up by Reuters, TechCrunch, and…
Key Takeaways Hardened base images reduce Kubernetes risk before admission control, runtime protection, or scanning tools ever evaluate a workload. The best options combine minimal packages, active patching, SBOM visibility, provenance, runtime compatibility, and developer usability. Echo leads this list because it focuses on CVE-free base images and libraries while preserving compatibility with existing container…
Amazon EKS Auto Mode strips out the part of running Kubernetes on AWS that burns the most engineering hours: node group management. Instead of sizing instance types, patching AMIs, wiring up the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and installing the EBS CSI driver by hand, Auto Mode takes over compute, storage, and networking behind a single…
Gaming handhelds have hit a ceiling. A Steam Deck, ROG Ally, or Legion Go can chew through most titles at 800p, but drop into a demanding 2026 release like a remastered Witcher 3 at native resolution and the built-in APU runs out of headroom fast. The fix that’s gaining traction this year isn’t a new…
