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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-11-01 05:15:55

Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deep

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure | TechCrunch
Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-01 03:18:29

Deterministic When Possible. Probabilistic When Necessary. Human When Cheaper. codemanship.wordpress.com/2026

Deterministic When Possible. Probabilistic When Necessary. Human When Cheaper.
One inescapable conclusion I’ve had to draw observing our industry over the last couple of years is that the AI thing isn’t about productivity. If it was, teams would be looking for way…

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-25 00:50:33

I am leaning towards experimenting with small models locally #ai
poppastring.com/blog/small-mod

Small models, specific purposes
Exploring small local models for DasBlog maintenance, and questioning whether every problem needs a larger model running in a data center. ...

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-30 03:08:18

Some Ardalis Packages Are Going Commercial: What You Need to Know ardalis.com/some-ardalis-packa

Some Ardalis Packages Are Going Commercial: What You Need to Know
Some Ardalis NuGet packages will be going commercial with free licenses for individuals and small organizations, as well as additional details.

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-30 13:06:15

I need help understand why you put a datacenter in the desert where there is an abundance of heat and dearth of water.
That's about 4.5 million gallons a day, enough to supply about 45k households, in case you were wondering.
theverge.com/cs/features/10166

AI has come for Arizona’s water
Arizona has long courted big business, from tech to agriculture. Now the state is facing a water crisis. Are data centers the breaking point?

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-29 04:05:53

$14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro 👀
theverge.com/tech/1021308/appl

Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro
Adding every upgrade to Apple’s new 16-inch touchscreen MacBook Pro boosts its price to over $14,000.

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-09-09 18:38:49

Love from Detroit
poppastring.com/blog/love-from

Love from Detroit
I spent a few days in Detroit, primarily to visit the Detroit Institute of Arts ...

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-08 01:47:56

OpenAI apparently put roughly 10,000 agents on the task, 88 hours of reasoning, 130 billion output tokens. Then spent another 17 hours to validate the result in Lean, a proof assistant that mechanically checks every logical step. Estimated compute cost: somewhere between $15 million and $22 million!
poppastr…

The Unread Proof
OpenAI spent $15 million proving the wrong version of the Navier-Stokes problem, in a document dense enough that reading it may itself require an AI. ...

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-10-27 13:13:02

“we might have framed out a boat or a buoy or gone: ‘Oh, actually … the water conditions are not really good enough for this.’” Instead, this time they’re leaving it all in to show a more authentic, organic version of the oceans.
theverge.com/ai-artificial-int<…

Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
BBC’s Blue Planet III is keeping in shots that would normally end up on the cutting room floor to prove it’s real.

@poppastring@dotnet.social
2026-08-25 02:16:16

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIn’s AI slop button
LinkedIn actually announced a “Seems like AI slop” button on July 30th, and the company says “over a million people” have clicked on it.