I have worked in voice since 2017, long enough to have lived through one hype cycle and to watch a second one gain real momentum. While this second wave is technically more impressive, the conversation around it has collapsed into numbers. Very little of it is about how people actually speak and I would say…
Why MSPs Should Start with the Workload, Not the Hardware Spend five minutes at an AI conference and you could easily come away believing that every successful AI deployment begins with buying more GPUs. It is easy to understand why. Hardware dominates the conversation. Customers hear about Blackwell systems, InfiniBand fabrics, hyperscale clouds, and increasingly…
In 2024, if you called a company’s support line and got routed to a “voice agent,” you knew you were talking to a machine within the first few seconds. A few seconds of dead air between your question and its answer and it was obvious that software was on the other side of the line….
Suno on September 9, 2026 introduced v6, a new generation of music models developed with industry partners including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, according to the company’s announcement. Suno said that as v6 rolls out, it will retire its previous models and move the product entirely onto the v6 generation. Suno described v6 as…
OpenAI announced on September 8, 2026 that an internal AI system produced a proof, accompanied by a formalization in the Lean proof assistant, that the Navier–Stokes equations governing fluid motion can develop a singularity in finite time. The company said the result resolves one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Prize Problems. What the Proof…
The National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation released a joint cybersecurity advisory on September 8, 2026, warning that China-based artificial intelligence companies are systematically extracting proprietary capabilities from U.S. frontier AI models through industrial-scale knowledge distillation campaigns running since at least late 2024. In the advisory,…
Sierra said on September 8, 2026, that it is open-sourcing hyper-τ-bench, a long-horizon benchmark scoring whether AI coding agents can construct a working customer-service agent. The strongest automated configuration passed 23.9% of held-out evaluation tasks, Sierra reported, against 82.2% for a reference pairing an engineer with a frontier model. From Acting as an Agent to…
Microsoft’s multi-model agentic scanning system for finding security flaws in software, codename MDASH, has deployed to Microsoft Azure Government, the company announced on September 8, 2026, with preview access available to select US government customers and authorized partners. A Defender Feature Inside Azure Government The announcement was authored by Douglas Phillips, President and Chief Technology…
AWS said on September 8, 2026, that OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, describing it in an AWS Machine Learning Blog post as OpenAI’s latest and most capable model. Customers can call the model directly through the Amazon Bedrock APIs or configure ChatGPT Work and Codex to use it, and OpenAI…
Better AI will make it possible for more people to run million-dollar businesses on their own. The reason is practical: a person who can deliver more of a valuable job has more room to build a business around it. An idea for a service is only the beginning. Someone has to understand the customer, develop…