2026-08-12
Voice Is Currently the Worst Way to Communicate With AI
New research suggests that sci-fi's most popularly-depicted method of interfacing with AI may actually produce worse results than even badly-typed prompts. From HAL to Deep Thought, from C3P0 to Wall-E, the idealized form of human/AI relations has always centered around voice-control; and this has manifested in the real world, from early assistant systems such as Siri and Alexa, to language-b [...]
2026-08-12
Google DeepMind Brings Sign Language Translation to Phones With SL2T
Google DeepMind has shipped a sign-language-to-text model, SL2T, inside two consumer Android products, the first time sign language AI has reached a shipping phone feature. The model powers sign-to-text dictation in Gboard and Live Transcribe on Pixel 11 phones, launching with American Sign Language to English translation on August 12, 2026. The feature works anywhere a user would normally type. A [...]
2026-08-12
Runable AI Review: One AI Tool to Replace All Others
I’ve tested a lot of AI tools over the past few years, and one thing that still drives me crazy is how quickly your workflow turns into a pile of different apps. One tool for research, another for presentations, another for images, another for video, and suddenly you’re paying for five subscriptions just to finish one project. Nobody wants that! That’s the problem Runable is trying to solve. [...]
2026-08-12
Healthcare’s Hidden Access Problem: The Inbound Call Burden
Healthcare providers and payers have begun to adopt AI technology; now they need to make the leap to AI orchestration. In the field, we see this disconnect manifest in patient access. Providers made the investment, deployed the solutions, but patients still face friction accessing care. We’re often asked – how do we, and our populations, get the promised value out of this new technology? For s [...]
2026-08-12
Liquid AI Ships LFM2.5-VL-3B for Faster Vision-Language AI on the Edge
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B on August 12, 2026, a 3.1-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model built to run on phones, laptops, and single GPUs rather than in a data center. The model, announced on the company's blog and posted to Hugging Face with weights available immediately, extends last year's LFM2-VL-3B with stronger screen understanding, object grounding, multi-imag [...]
