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Oct 30Fri
  1. TechCrunch · AI50

    Granola has launched voice-to-text functionality to compete with Wispr

    Granola has launched voice-to-text functionality on Mac, allowing users to speak by pressing the 'Fn' key and automatically generating text. It supports cross-app use and is free. This feature will also be launched on iOS and Windows platforms. Granola and Wispr are valued at 150 million and 200 million USD respectively, both focusing on voice applications, but the former focuses on meeting automation and notes, while the latter explores human-computer interfaces through its research lab.

  4. Baseten Blog22

    Baseten and Postman: Building Enterprise-Grade Reliable and Cost-Effective Agents

    Postman's Agent Stack includes four products: Passport, Fabric, Astropods, and Fern, used for preparing APIs, controlling access, and governing agent behavior. Baseten, as Postman's recommended enterprise team reasoning partner, provides fast, reliable, and cost-effective reasoning infrastructure, supporting multiple models such as Beam 1.0 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, ranking top in throughput and latency.

  5. Codex releases45

    Codex 0.166.0 released: adding keyboard driver transcription selection, Markdown rendering optimization, and GPT-6.1 Terra support

    Codex 0.166.0 released, adding keyboard driver transcription selection (supporting word, line, and page operations), integrated search and configurable shortcuts, as well as consistent Markdown rendering in asynchronous questions, options, answers, and transcription responses. Also supports GPT-6.1 Terra and adds codex queue --resume feature to resume unloaded threads.

  6. AWS Machine Learning Blog

    AWS Batch adds quota management features for SageMaker Training jobs, supporting cross-team resource borrowing.

    AWS Batch introduces quota management features, allowing administrators to allocate computing resources by team or project and supporting cross-team resource borrowing (LEND) and borrowing (BORROW) to maximize GPU utilization. Administrators can configure quota share (quota share) resource sharing policies and enable priority-based in-share preemption to prioritize high-priority workloads.

Oct 29Thu
  1. The Verge · AI50

    The New York Times cooking app is testing the AI recipe modification feature

    The New York Times Cooking app has launched new AI features that can recommend ingredient and kitchen tool alternatives, adjust quantities, and modify recipe steps on demand. Currently available to iOS subscribers, it will gradually be rolled out to a wider user base. Some users are concerned about the AI's impact on user experience and the environment, asking if the feature can be turned off. The editor responded that it is 'not possible' at the moment but described it as 'fully optional.' This is not the first time the app has used AI, having previously been used for unit conversion and quantity adjustment.

  5. Hugging Face Blog

    Hugging Face Granite Switch 4.1.1 released: software-based model update

    Hugging Face releases Granite Switch 4.1.1, an incremental update based on 4.1, maintaining full backward compatibility. New features include multilingual speech-to-text models (supporting 10 languages with native punctuation) and a decision adapter for improved performance on the Jev decision index test set. The team achieves rapid deployment by updating only the adapter without recalculating the base model, and future support for third-party custom adapters is planned.

  6. ITHome · AI58

    Microsoft has released the largest DirectX ray tracing upgrade since 2018: AMD RX 9070 example performance improvement of about 66 times

    Microsoft has released the official version of DirectX 12 Agility SDK 1.620 and the preview version 1.722, bringing updates such as cluster geometry and PTLAS to DXR to reduce ray tracing computational overhead. On the AMD RX 9070, cluster geometry boosts performance from 1.2 FPS to 79 FPS, an increase of about 66 times, with memory usage reduced by nearly 90%. New features require support from graphics card manufacturers, currently covering NVIDIA RTX, AMD RX 9000 series, and Intel Arc graphics cards.

  8. 36Kr · AI

    Zhiyuan Innovation releases the GO-3 Preview, WITA-OMNI, AGILE model combination to accelerate the deployment of the entire physical AI chain

    Zhiyuan Innovation launches GO-3 Preview (tops RoboDojo and other evaluations), WITA-OMNI (wins first place in four rankings), and AGILE general sports intelligence algorithm framework, respectively tackling tasks, interaction, and sports abilities; Lingqu OS 1.0 and AHA3 hardware architecture integrate software and hardware ports; Worken measures intelligent work hours, aiming to convert 20000 offline robots into actual productivity.

  9. TechCrunch · AI65

    Amazon updates Alexa to help users manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions

    Amazon has added over 100 new shopping-related features for Alexa before the holidays, including subscription and list management, updating delivery instructions, resolving payment issues, and answering questions about Prime subscriptions. This update allows users to use Alexa to create, register, view list contents, and add or edit items, manage subscriptions, such as changing the delivery frequency of an item from once a month to once every three months, and edit delivery instructions, such as changing an address or adding pickup details.

  11. ITHome · AI65

    Wu Tian, Vice President of Baidu, has resigned, and Xinwen Model may release new progress next week

    Wu Tian, Vice President of Baidu Group and Deputy Dean of Baidu Research, confirmed her resignation, but Baidu's technical work is still advancing. Sources close to the company revealed that Xinwen Model will have new progress to be released next week. Previously, Baidu has open-sourced Xinwen Unlimited OCR 2, a model that can parse documents of any number of pages, scoring 84.6 on MPDocBench and 77.1 on MarathonDocBench, with single-step decoding speed improved 7 times compared to Full Attention and 5.6 times compared to the previous generation.

  13. ITHome · AI65

    Today is a good day to rest, launching the industry's first flexible rest plan 'Good State' program

    Today is a good day to rest, launching the industry's first flexible rest plan 'Good State' program, employees with a fatigue index below 60 points can apply for rest days independently and connect with Feishu MCP to achieve automatic leave (no more than 10 times per quarter), the plan is open to the entire industry and provides exclusive discounts and team support.

  14. 36Kr · AI

    Shopify adopts Visa, Mastercard's smart payment technology

    Shopify has integrated smart payment technology developed by Visa, Mastercard, and American Express into its checkout feature Shop Pay. This technology uses a smart payment token to represent the user's bank card information to complete the payment, without exposing the real card number. This move contrasts with Stripe's mainstream solution while retaining credit card reward points and fraud protection.

  15. ITHome · AI65

    Yixing Yi Xi today launched the iFlow intelligent temperature control system: BCG non-contact monitoring, dynamic temperature control, starting at 9999 yuan

    Yujin Xiuhu released the iFlow smart temperature control system, starting at 9999 yuan. It supports BCG contactless monitoring, dual-person independent monitoring, and AI zone temperature control. The system is equipped with the MTK Genio 420 edge AI computing platform, capable of locally running the ISHO physiological signal large model to achieve dynamic temperature control. The Pro version upgrades to a 512-point flexible pressure sensing array, supporting high-temperature dust mite removal at 55℃.

  17. ITHome · AI65

    ISHO Ring smart ring released: Integrates 116 components, priced from 1799 yuan

    ISHO Ring smart ring released, priced from 1799 yuan, integrates 116 components, equipped with Apollo 330B Plus chip and 32MB storage, supports offline recording of 7 days of data, battery life of 6-10 days.

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  18. ITHome · AI40

    Xiaomi's REDMI K100 Pro Max phone appeared at the ISHO AI Sleep Technology Ecosystem Product Launch Event

    The Xiaomi REDMI K100 Pro Max phone was showcased at the ISHO AI Sleep Technology Ecosystem Product Launch Event, where Wang Teng claimed its cooling capability is 289 times that of the ISHO iFlow Smart Temperature Control System Pro. The REDMI K100 Pro Max was officially released on August 11, featuring the Snapdragon 8 Ultra Edition processor and a combination of LPDDR5X+UFS 4.1, with a freezing circulation cold pump area of 6300mm². The initial sales price starts at 4199 yuan.

  20. ITHome · AI

    DouBao Work launches third-party model services for enterprise customers: including Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, etc.

    Doubao Work has opened third-party model services for enterprise customers, with the first batch including models such as Kimi 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.3, and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. It supports team subscription and enterprise subscription customers to deduct AI points based on usage, allowing flexible setting of available ranges and batch activation.

  21. QbitAI72

    Genspark releases Media Studio video Agent workbench

    Genspark releases video Agent workbench Media Studio, integrating over 70 model versions from more than 20 manufacturers, where large language models act as directors responsible for writing scripts and scheduling video, image, and audio models.

    Why it matters: The author conducted a complete test of the entire process from short drama to knowledge explanation video, allowing readers to judge the completeness and shortcomings of multi-model arrangement in real-world creation based on this.

  24. MarkTechPost

    AssemblyAI releases AssemblyAI-TTS-1: The first text-to-speech model, API price is 15 USD per 1M characters

    AssemblyAI has released its first text-to-speech model AssemblyAI-TTS-1, targeting voice agents in real-time phone calls, priced at $15 per 1M characters, with no annual contract and support for unlimited concurrency. The model achieved an entity accuracy rate of 93.7% in AssemblyAI's tests, comparable to ElevenLabs v4, but priced only one-fifth of it, with a median first byte time of 47 milliseconds, but the median streaming latency in Cekura's independent benchmark tests was 159 milliseconds.

  25. MarkTechPost

    Infini-AI-Lab releases open-source AI agent adapter framework Hermit

    Infini-AI-Lab releases open-source framework Hermit v0.1.0, with adapters that can fine-tune Codex or Claude Code agents without altering the model or framework. Using GLM 5.3 Flash on OfficeQA, CL-Bench, and ServeLearnBench, results with adapters are better than baseline results without adapters. The MWM adapter achieves 0.795 accuracy in database exploration on CL-Bench.

  27. ITHome · AI65

    Anthropic has launched the Claude Smart Reporting Tool, which can monitor employee AI usage and costs.

    The Claude Smart Reporting Tool, launched by Anthropic, is aimed at Claude Enterprise paid users, capable of generating charts to display team usage of AI tools (conversations, Claude Code, Claude Cowork), output content, and costs. It supports custom query questions and identifies inefficient usage scenarios, but it is explicitly not used for evaluating individual performance or personnel decisions.

  29. ITHome · AI

    NewCore Voyage X7 Ultra chip is the first in China to mass produce Armv9 automotive-grade CPU.

    NewCore Voyage has released the X7 Ultra large model chip, which includes a high-precision operator acceleration engine, supports 10 times the parameter model deployment, and achieves an NPU computing utilization of 98.7%. Memory bandwidth consumption is reduced by 80%, and energy efficiency is improved by 100%. This chip is the first in China to mass produce Armv9 automotive-grade CPU, with a performance increase of 20% and an energy efficiency improvement of 10%.