This Open-Source Phone AI Agent Sees, Hears and Acts—All Without Touching the Cloud

The open-source project adds local persistent memory to Hermes Agent through six layers, gated retrieval, and a wiki. The post Meet Memory OS: A 6-Layer Open-Source Memory Stack Built on Top of Hermes Agent appeared first on MarkTechPost.

TurboQuant's open-source release could democratize AI by enabling efficient local deployment, reducing reliance on centralized cloud services. The post Tether AI open-sources TurboQuant, reducing LLM KV cache memory use by 5x appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

New features coming to YouTube could make it better for listening to podcasts, rolling out to Premium subscribers starting today on Android and coming later to iOS. A new "on-the-go mode" shifts YouTube into an audio-first layout, with larger, simplified playback buttons, a still image in place of the video, and a timeline showing video chapters. YouTube says you can turn on this new mode in a video's settings - a pop up will also appear if YouTube detects you're moving around while watching a video. If you like to speed up your podcasts to get through episodes faster, YouTube's new auto speed feature can help you automate that process. … Read the full story at The Verge.

Google’s shiny new Android 17 update may be on the brink of making its way out into world, but one of the most consequential Android notification upgrades I’ve seen in ages is actually available for anyone, on any device, this instant. It’s one of those things you don’t even realize is missing — and awkwardly has been, all this time — until you have it in front of you and see just how helpful and at times even invaluable it is. And that’s the ability to have any or all of your notifications saved and restored whenever you restart whatever Android device you’re using — so that nothing important gets awkwardly tossed aside, lost, and forgotten, likely without your ever even noticing or being aware of what you’ve missed. How many potentially important pending alerts have you lost as a result of that reboot trash chute? I couldn’t even begin to count, myself, and am slightly terrified to think of the answer. But with this easy new improvement in place, it’ll never happen again. And best of

Warp uses GPT-5.5 and OpenAI models to coordinate coding agents across local, cloud, and open-source development workflows.

DeepSeek's AGI focus and open-source strategy could disrupt AI market pricing, challenging commercial AI providers and impacting global AI dynamics. The post DeepSeek prioritizes AGI over commercial products in $10.2B funding talks appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

That’s my own Android app. Bad, yet impressive. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Yesterday, I built my first Android app. Then, I made two more - three in one afternoon. For one, I literally typed 148 words into my web browser and walked away. Ten minutes later, I had an entire new app on my actual Android phone. I did have to prep that phone by enabling a USB debugging mode and plugging it into my PC, but as advertised, Google's AI Studio did literally everything else for me. I typed in words, I hit install, and voilà: an entire working program. I was nearly ready to agree with David, Allison, and Jen: The personal software revolution is here, it's coming to your phone, there's a future where the average person can m … Read the full story at The Verge.

With Google’s annual I/O gala in full force this week, Gemini and AI are taking center stage and being presented as the future of practically everything. Here in the land of Android, though, Gemini’s been quietly competing for attention with another relatively youthful on-demand assistant — and that’s a far less in-your-face feature called Circle to Search. Circle to Search is essentially an instant portal to the even less widely known Android Google Lens setup, which has been serving up genuinely practical real-world advantages for Android device-owners in the know for years now — since way back before the word “Gemini” had any Googley meaning. And whether you also adore Gemini or find it to be more hype than help, it’s well worth your while to dig into Circle to Search — or maybe just revisit its potential, if you’d perhaps explored it briefly early on and then forgotten about it — to see what it can do for you. Here, specifically, are 10 simple but supremely useful ways Circle to Se