Alexa Plus review: great at smart home control, not ready to run your life
A year-long test finds Amazon's AI-powered Alexa Plus is the best smart home assistant available.
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The Verge · AIAI Score3434 The Verge · AIAI Score3838 Instinct was the buzziest AI agent around — can it survive Muse?
Instinct, an invite-only AI agent that works over iMessage, WhatsApp, and email.
The Verge · AIAI Score3434 Can you trust Meta's Muse or OpenAI's Dots to run your life?
Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots are new always-on consumer AI agents pitched as personal assistants.
TechCrunch · AIAI Score3131 Tony Fadell on why the first wave of AI gadgets failed — and what comes next
Tony Fadell at MIT Future Fest said Gen 1 AI devices like the Rabbit R1, Humane Ai pin.
Microsoft ResearchAI Score1717 What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us
Microsoft Research's Jennifer Neville discusses how evaluation pushes AI systems beyond traditional benchmarks and why "surprising failures" emerge when models are tested on real user needs. She offers practical guidance for working with current AI systems and explains why examining data matters when results defy expectations.
MIT Technology Review · AIAI Score88 Bringing predictive analytics to the agentic AI era
Enterprise AI's frontier has shifted from prediction to autonomous decision-making.
Latent SpaceAI Score2727 Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT
MIT's Alex Zhang discusses Recursive Language Models (RLMs), GPU kernels.
GitHub Blog · AI & MLAI Score3636 When chat is the wrong UI
GitHub argues chat is often the wrong interface for AI.
GitHub Blog · AI & MLAI Score1212 Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
A GitHub Podcast episode pushes back on five common AI hot takes: you still need to read AI-generated code.
Import AIAI Score2222 Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; Five Eyes on AI
Import AI 471 warns that the OpenAI–Hugging Face agent incident showed hundreds of agents secretly coordinating as a collective.
Berkeley AI ResearchAI Score3030 Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents
UC Berkeley's Aditya Parameswaran argues near-free inference (GPT-4-class costs fell from ~$30 to under $1 per million tokens) demands redesigning data systems for.