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2026-10-24

The Verge · AI03:32

Block releases its new voice AI model, Dessa: trained entirely on real-world conversations, with a slightly awkward conversational style.

Jack Dorsey’s company, Block, announced the launch of an end-to-end voice AI model called Dessa, claiming it was trained entirely from scratch using only human speech dialogue data. The official demonstration samples exhibited a mix of naturalness and awkwardness—for example, mistakenly addressing a user as “Ronaldo”—highlighting its anthropomorphic yet still immature conversational capabilities.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog00:30

AWS CDK builds reusable constructs to resolve the blocking issue during SageMaker endpoint scaling updates.

When a SageMaker real-time AI endpoint has Application Auto Scaling enabled, attempting to update its configuration—such as instance type or count—directly via AWS CDK or CloudFormation will fail. This paper proposes a CDK construct based on custom resources that leverages strict dependency orchestration to achieve atomic updates of both the endpoint’s configuration and its scaling policies, eliminating the need for manual intervention.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog00:24

Amazon QuickSight’s layered maps now support GeoJSON point and line features, enabling the visualization of locations and routes together.

Amazon QuickSight’s layered maps now support the GeoJSON formats for Point and LineString geometries, enabling users to overlay store locations, delivery routes, or flight trajectories on the same map. This capability requires no third-party services, but it does demand that GeoJSON files adhere to the proper structure, with matching keys and static updates.

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2026-10-23

TechCrunch · AI03:00

OpenAI officially launches the Decisions API decision-making model, directly competing with TypeSafe Jev.

OpenAI will make the Decisions API available to all customers around October 22, 2026. This model is rebuilt on top of ChatGPT Luna and emphasizes millisecond-level low latency and cost-effective inference, with advantages in multimodal tasks such as image understanding. Currently, it lags behind competitors like the latest Jev and D1 Ultra in mainstream decision-making model benchmarks, but has already been adopted in real-world testing by companies including Box, Datadog, and Speak.

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AWS Machine Learning Blog02:06

Major upgrade to Amazon Polly’s generative engine: 14 new voices added, and for the first time, support for Hindi and Finnish generative speech, with zero-code migration.

Amazon Polly’s generative engine has undergone a major upgrade, significantly enhancing speech naturalness, accuracy, and emotional expressiveness, while supporting low-latency streaming synthesis. Fourteen new generative voices have been added, covering nine regions, and for the first time, generative voices in Hindi (Arjun, Kiara) and Finnish (Suvi) are universally available. The entire update is a seamless, drop-in replacement, requiring no changes to API calls or code.

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TechCrunch · AI00:00

Uber has fully deployed ChatGPT Work: 30,000 employees have gained access to OpenAI’s enterprise-grade AI tools.

Uber announced that it has rolled out ChatGPT Work to all roughly 30,000 of its global employees, scaling up from an initial pilot involving a thousand staff at the start of the year to company-wide adoption. The tool is already being used for data analysis, localization of multilingual training materials, and building interactive work dashboards, though specific use cases remain under each team’s own exploration, and the company has not yet disclosed the procurement costs.

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2026-10-22

TechCrunch · AI23:03

Spotify bets on the AI assistant era: becoming the music service of choice for AI assistants

Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström stated during the Q3 2026 earnings call that the rise of AI agents will not diminish the value of streaming platforms; on the contrary, it will reinforce Spotify’s unique advantage—its vast trove of personalized listening data and deep agent integration capabilities, making it the preferred music service interface for third-party AI assistants.

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NVIDIA Blog13:00

Global enterprises leverage the NVIDIA DSX platform to overcome AI infrastructure power bottlenecks.

Faced with the stark reality of over 200 GW of grid‑connected projects backlog in the United States and $300 billion in delayed equipment deliveries, several energy and industrial giants are leveraging NVIDIA’s DSX AI Factory platform to integrate power grids, facilities, and computing systems, enabling collaborative simulation and dynamic scheduling from substations to server racks—thus overcoming the primary bottleneck hindering current AI infrastructure development: power supply constraints.

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TechCrunch · AI05:14

Meta confirms that the AI app Muse has surpassed 10 million users, with shopping emerging as its core use case.

During its Q3 2026 earnings call, Meta confirmed that the number of users of its AI agent app, Muse, has surpassed 10 million; approximately 25% of new users engage with it daily, with shopping being the most frequent activity—over a quarter of active shopping users spend more than $200 per transaction on average. Meanwhile, Plaid reported that its payment connector’s API calls on Muse have reached an all-time high.

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