How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping neurodiverse people better understand social situations, as some worry about overreliance
Andrea Jiménez / Washington Post : Forums: r/singularity Forums: r/singularity : Washington Post: “These autistic people struggled to make sense of others. Then they found AI.”
Microsoft debuts an AI interpreter in Teams in limited preview that can simulate speaker voices and offer near-real-time voice interpretation in nine languages
Danielle Abril / Washington Post :
OpenAI's new ChatGPT voice assistant jokes, chides, apologizes, pretends to blush, and deals with interruptions, thanks to training GPT-4o on speech end-to-end
here's how to get access James Morales / CCN.com : ChatGPT-4o Can Speak With You, OpenAI Admits Voice Features “Present a Variety of Novel Risks” Mark Wilson / TechRadar : ChatGPT's big, free update w...
After a contentious public hearing, the California Public Utilities Commission allows Waymo and Cruise to operate driverless cabs 24/7 throughout San Francisco
prompting a vow from angry residents to continue staging traffic cone protests Nadia Bidarian / CNN : Regulators give green light to driverless taxis in San Francisco Shannon Connellan / Mashable : Ro...
Amazon unveils Halo, a $100 fitness band with an app to track emotional tone and create 3D scans for body fat, with an optional $4/month subscription service
A New Service that Helps Customers Improve Their Health and Wellness Emily Mullin / OneZero : Want a Free Amazon Halo Wearable? Just Hand Over Your Data To This Major Insurance Company Geoffrey Fowle...
Facebook's Portals have support for Alexa, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, and Facebook Watch, but there's no browser or ability to check Facebook or Messages
Facebook is making a video camera. Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post : Facebook unveils the Portal, a video chat camera for the people who still trust Facebook New York Times : Facebook's New Gadge...
Sources: Google's AMP initiative to speed mobile pages to launch Wednesday, with Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, and Washington Post among those participating
George Slefo / Ad Age :
Notes from Google's AMP event: open source code available on GitHub as of Thursday; The Guardian, Washington Post, Vox, and others are already using it
Accelerated Mobile Pages Project, Backed By Google, Promises Faster Pages — Google, along with Twitter, is expected to announce …
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join
Peter Kafka / Re/code :