Tools

Instead of waiting for Meta’s Muse Charm, a Verge editor turned a cheap developer kit into a pocket AI companion, using an AI coding tool to add missing features.

An AI tool built with the UK government to speed up routine home-planning checks is expanding to more councils in England after early trials.

A Hugging Face blog post introduces two packages that let Apple developers choose their speech recognition engine and get probability-based answers from models running on the device.

Apple is bringing its earlier AI features to China through a coming iOS update, adding support for Alibaba’s chatbot but leaving out its new Siri.

An Nvidia employee used the company’s open AI models to turn a garage door into a grumpy talking character that greets trick-or-treaters and softens when they say please.

A new Hugging Face page shows whether popular models run unmodified on Amazon’s Trainium chips, with the exact script to reproduce each test.

A new PyTorch backend lets Hugging Face’s main libraries run directly on Amazon’s Trainium chips, without the separate Optimum Neuron layer developers needed before.

Meta has turned Muse sharing back on after researchers showed that pages people shared from its AI agent could be found by strangers.

Discord’s latest update shows uploaded Markdown files with proper formatting instead of raw symbols, which could help people swapping AI agent instructions and notes.

A modder has apparently jailbroken Nintendo’s latest console with help from OpenAI’s Codex coding tool and shown it running a customised version of Mario Kart World.