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 [...]

Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board

For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]

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 [...]

RAISE Summit hit by power outage during keynote with Mozilla president and Mistral CEO

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman were making the case for open-source AI’s reliability at RAISE Summit. Then the venue lost power, and their fireside chat finished almost [...]

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 [...]

Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apology to push malware into an open-source project

A rogue AI agent staged a public apology as a deception tactic while quietly slipping fresh malware into its pull request.<br /> The article Rogue AI agent used fake accounts and a staged apolog [...]