Google has quietly launched a free offline-first AI dictation app for iOS, leveraging its lightweight Gemma models to compete directly with established players like Wispr Flow. Google just dropped something interesting on the iOS App Store, and hardly anyone noticed. The company quietly released a new offline-first AI dictation app that runs its Gemma language…
Birdeye Search AI helps multi-location brands monitor and improve how each location appears across generative AI search engines, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity, ensuring accurate, consistent visibility where customers increasingly discover businesses. Birdeye is an enterprise-grade, agentic marketing platform designed for multi-location and global brands that require centralized oversight of reputation, visibility, and customer…
Private fleets are rapidly embracing generative AI, but poor data quality and integration issues are preventing many from unlocking its full operational value, according to a new survey from Fleet Advantage. The company released findings from its latest Use of AI in Fleets survey during the National Private Truck Council’s 2026 annual conference. The survey,…
“Multicloud chaos is fundamentally a data problem, and genAI’s edge is building a unified semantic layer over configs, logs, schemas, and lineage,” says Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, co-founder and CEO of SurrealDB. “Natural-language SRE copilots will infer topology, data gravity, compliance, and cost to propose placements, generate runbooks, and continuously remediate drift across clouds.” Inconsistent and…
AUTOMA+ 2026 takes place from 16-17 November in Zurich, Switzerland. Credit: AUTOMA+ The budgets for pharma digitalisation continue to expand at a pace where operational reality is struggling to keep up. In just four years, AI spending will nearly triple to $11.12bn, up from $4.79bn in 2026. Yet these numbers don’t tell the whole story….
TL;DR: Microsoft Gaming and Xbox underwent major leadership changes with Asha Sharma as CEO, sparking mixed reactions due to her AI background. New Chief Content Officer Matt Booty emphasized that AI will support, not replace, human creativity in game development, with no pressure to use generative AI in Xbox products. One of the biggest gaming…
