Sesame AI shows off impressive voice assistant, has open source plans

Sesame AI, a California-based startup, is taking an unconventional approach to voice AI by deliberately incorporating imperfections into its speech output. Their new model represents an early step tow [...]

Chinese AI agent Manus uses Claude Sonnet and open-source technology

A new AI agent called Manus, developed by Chinese startup Monica, demonstrates capabilities in handling complex tasks from travel planning to financial analysis without human intervention. While early [...]

NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw's biggest security issues — and it's already powering the creator's biz

The rapid viral adoption of Austrian developer Peter Steinberger's open source AI assistant OpenClaw in recent weeks has sent enterprises and indie developers into a tizzy.It's easy to easy [...]

Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open source multimodal models

Alibaba's Qwen group has released two new small-scale multimodal models, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking.<br /> The article Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open sourc [...]

Google releases open-source LMEval to benchmark language and multimodal models

LMEval aims to standardize benchmarks and streamline safety analysis for large language and multimodal models.<br /> The article Google releases open-source LMEval to benchmark language and mult [...]

Windscribe review: Despite the annoyances, it has the right idea

Windscribe is a virtual private network (VPN) with intense "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy. It has servers in 69 countries and an annual plan that costs $69, an obsession with the sex n [...]

Most enterprises can't stop stage-three AI agent threats, VentureBeat survey finds

A rogue AI agent at Meta passed every identity check and still exposed sensitive data to unauthorized employees in March. Two weeks later, Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirmed a supply-chain br [...]

Deepseek V3.2 rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro, reaches IMO gold level as open source

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has unveiled V3.2, a new language model that matches GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 3 Pro in key benchmarks and reasoning tasks.<br /> The article Deepseek V3.2 rivals GP [...]

Meta sees early signs of self-improving AI, signals caution on open source plans

Meta says it's starting to see the first signs of AI systems that can improve themselves.<br /> The article Meta sees early signs of self-improving AI, signals caution on open source plans [...]