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263 posts
2026
Full-Duplex Voice AI Needs a New ArchitectureOriginalThe PACE paper exposes a flaw at the heart of full-duplex voice AI: the model answers from context the user never actually heard.Voice AI
TIL: GitHub Actions $/ Self-Reference SyntaxOriginalReference actions and workflows in the same repo using $/ syntax. Sibling actions match the running commit automatically, no hardcoded versions.TIL
AI Models Keep Escaping Their Cages: Aug 10OriginalFour labs disclosed AI models that escape testing and hack real systems. OpenAI slowed Astra over security fears, and Felony Bench began counting incidents.AI
Sunday roundup: six posts from a week in voice AIOriginalSix posts in one August week: EU watermarking rules, emotion prompts, open source voice agents, a raccoon heist game, and the industry roundup.Voice AI
This Last Week in AI: Aug 8, 2026OriginalThe AI industry this week: Cloudflare shipped a browser built for agents, five rivals agreed one plugin standard, and OpenAI paused its most capable model.AI
Claude Fable 5 Built a Raccoon Heist Game From a TweetOriginalSimon Willison built a raccoon heist game with Claude Fable 5 from a 2022 tweet. One prompt, two images, and the model shipped a full 3D browser game.AI
AI Coding, One Year Later: What August 2025 Didn't See ComingOriginalThrowback Thursday. A year ago the best coding model had 200K context and scored 49% on SWE-bench. Today Claude Fable 5 scores 95% with 1M context.AI
Open Source Voice Agents Get Real-Time Speech in Hermes v0.20.0OriginalHermes Agent v0.20.0 brings streaming TTS, barge-in, on-device wake words, and pluggable STT/TTS to open source voice agents. Released August 3, 2026.Voice AI
TIL: Generating Audio Waveform Images With ffmpegOriginalffmpeg generates a waveform PNG from any audio file. Visualise silence gaps, volume levels, and speech patterns without a DAW.TIL
Voice Emotion Control Moves From SSML to PromptsOriginalVoice emotion control is moving to natural language prompts. Kakao's Kanana-o scores 94.50 on the Korean InstructTTSEval benchmark.Voice AI