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 … Read more
Presented by ContentfulMost marketing teams still measure visibility the same way they always have: rankings, click-through rates, and organic traffic. But buyers have moved on. Search tools and AI engines now synthesize answers directly on the screen, creating a world of zero-click searches where your website is entirely bypassed. The “old days” are not coming … Read more
Insider Brief IBM has released Nighthawk r2, a 120-qubit processor designed to deliver more useful computation through substantially faster qubit resets. The processor can execute more than 100,000 circuits per second, 25 times the throughput of IBM’s Heron systems, while maintaining comparable gate accuracy. Nighthawk r2 has demonstrated accurate estimates on circuits containing more than … Read more
Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection and mitigation.Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an X post that 3.8 Flash delivers … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor authentication guards.The accounts Anthropic flagged were card-billed, self-serve accounts, which is the population no corporate identity provider governs, and no admin console can sign out. Session-cookie replay bypasses SSO as thoroughly as it bypasses 2FA. What SSO provides here … Read more
Insider Brief Quobly and TNO have signed an MoU to strengthen technical cooperation on the development and industrialization of silicon spin qubit technology. The partnership combines Quobly’s 300 mm FD-SOI platform with TNO’s expertise in device characterization, materials analysis and systems engineering. The two organizations will work on measurement, simulation and high-throughput characterization capabilities needed … Read more
Insider Brief Quandela has signed an MoU with CMC Microsystems to join Canada’s Quantum Computing Sandbox as a cloud-based photonic quantum computing provider. The partnership will give participating SMEs, organizations and academic researchers access to Quandela’s Canada-based photonic quantum computing platform and other quantum computing options. Quandela and CMC Microsystems will also provide technical and … Read more
Insider Brief Researchers directly measured gravity’s predicted effect on the quantum phase of freely falling atoms, finding Einstein’s equivalence principle consistent with quantum mechanics under the tested conditions. The Quantum Galileo Interferometer split ultracold rubidium atoms into two quantum paths, holding one stationary while the other fell freely before recombining them to measure their phase … Read more