
Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and support for more apps.
Gemini Spark is Google's AI agent assistant that can help manage digital tasks, and it is now available on Mac through the Gemini desktop app. The macOS launch allows Spark to compete with other desktop AI agents by working with files on computers and eventually handling remote tasks. Google has added new features including real-time topic tracking, integrations with apps like Google Tasks, Google Keep, Canva, and Dropbox, and the ability to perform tasks such as reserving tables or ordering groceries. The service is currently available only to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. as a beta product.

In this tutorial, we build a complete PDF-to-structured-data extraction workflow around Lift, with a focus on controlled evaluation rather than a simple demo run. We begin by preparing a Colab-compatible GPU environment, selecting the appropriate precision mode for the available hardware, and patching model loading to ensure the Lift backend runs reliably even on constrained 16 GB GPUs via 4-bit NF4 quantization. From there, we generate synthetic multi-page research reports with deliberately pl

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.
For voice AI systems, response time is a critical problem that affects how natural conversations feel. Two companies partnered to demonstrate a speech-to-speech system using open-source components where fast inference on one company's hardware allows conversations to flow with responsiveness similar to human interaction, avoiding the multi-second delays that currently frustrate users. The system works as a modular pipeline that takes speech input, processes it through speech recognition and a language model, generates text-to-speech output, and delivers a spoken response, with each component being replaceable by developers. This approach is already being used to power robots currently deployed in the field, where responsiveness is essential to making interactions feel natural.
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