2026-08-25
IBM Says Granite Speech 5.0 Transcribes 3.5 Hours of Speech in One Second
IBM released two compact English speech recognition models on August 25, 2026, claiming transcription throughput no open model has posted before: more than 3.5 hours of speech processed in a single second. The pair, Granite Speech 5.0 TurboCTC and a noncommercial counterpart, each carry just 470 million parameters, and the company reports aggregate throughput above 12,600 RTFx on a single NVIDIA H [...]
2026-08-25
Guideless Review: From Screen Recording to Guide in Minutes
As someone who regularly reviews AI software, I spend a lot of time testing tools and documenting how they work. That often means capturing the process with screenshots, and writing out each step so someone else can follow along. That's why I was interested in trying Guideless. Instead of manually documenting a workflow after completing it, I could simply record myself doing the task and let [...]
2026-08-25
Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone
Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a camera in the car, and it […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
