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  2. TechCrunch · AI8

    Ambrosia Energy and Bloom Energy execs to discuss AI infrastructure opportunities at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

    Ambrosia Energy CEO Ben Longmier and Bloom Energy's Bill Thayer will speak on the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about where the AI infrastructure boom is creating winners. The session examines constraints in power generation, grid connections, data centers, and cooling that are shaping durable business opportunities as AI scaling becomes a physical-world problem.

  3. The Verge · AI60

    Google releases AI Edge Foresight, an offline meeting transcription app for macOS

    Google has released Google AI Edge Foresight, a free experimental note-taking app that transcribes meetings and audio files entirely offline on macOS using its on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model. Like Granola and Wispr Flow, it summarizes meetings and turns shorthand bullet points into polished notes, and includes a built-in assistant that can answer questions about what you heard and reference local files you connect. Google says your files, meeting audio, and notes never leave your computer, and the app is currently only optimized for Macs with Apple Silicon.

  16. TechCrunch · AI62

    Google releases AI Edge Foresight, a local-first Granola competitor for Mac

    Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, a Mac AI note-taker that can work completely offline using the on-device EmbeddingGemma 2 model with 740 million parameters. The app captures meeting notes across apps, including in-person meetings, and offers a split-screen view for shorthand notes alongside AI-generated notes, plus a transcript view and a chat assistant powered by Gemma 4. Users can also upload PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office formats, plain text, Markdown and web bookmarks to build a knowledge base that the app draws on to answer questions in real time. Google says the app is optimized for Apple Silicon and works fully offline, following an earlier experimental AI dictation tool from the same team.

  22. MIT Technology Review · AI24

    AI breakthroughs in robotics won't change your life any time soon

    MIT Technology Review and Aventine examine why humanoid robots like Tesla's Optimus remain far from everyday use despite Musk's prediction of public sales by end of 2027. Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics controls the ALOHA 2 bimanual platform to perform multi-step tasks, but researchers including Yann LeCun argue current AI cannot master the physical world's variability.

  25. Simon Willison22

    Scrimshaw Jukebox: Testing Claude Opus 5.5's Music Composition

    Simon Willison tested whether Claude Opus 5.5 could compose computer game music by prompting it to design a text-based music format and build a playable artifact with example tracks. The model leaned heavily into the Monkey Island theme, but Willison called the results surprisingly good. He wonders whether competent music composition is a newly emerged capability for text models, similar to recent 3D graphics advances.

  26. Simon Willison8

    datasette-atom 0.11a0

    Simon Willison released datasette-atom 0.11a0, a pre-release update to the Datasette plugin for generating Atom feeds. The post gives no changelog, feature details, or benchmark numbers.

  38. TechCrunch · AI58

    Musubi releases PolicyLM-1.7B, an open-weights decision model for real-time content moderation

    Musubi announced PolicyLM-1.7B, a lightweight open-weights decision model built for real-time content moderation that applies a plain-English content policy to messages in under 50 milliseconds. The company says it is designed to be similar in cost and speed to the AI classifiers used by most social platforms, but can apply complex policies without special training and needs no retraining when a policy changes, letting policy-setters iterate. Co-founder and chief AI officer Filip Jankovic frames it as a way for platform managers to label content proactively, and the announcement positions it against TypeSafe AI's Jev, released in September and followed by competing decision models from OpenAI and Amazon.