Meta Releases Standalone Meta AI App with Personalization, Voice Features, and Companion Integration

Meta has launched the first version of its standalone Meta AI app, bringing a more personal and conversational AI assistant to users across iOS, Android, web browsers, and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. Built on Meta’s Llama 4 model, the app aims to deliver a more seamless and relevant AI experience with contextual memory and voice…

Legarda secures better retirement benefits for DFA personnel

Senator Loren Legarda has lauded the signing into law of Republic Act No. 12181, or the Adjusted DFA Retirement Benefits Act, a measure she principally authored and co-sponsored. RA 12181 honors the service of officers and employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs and strengthens the foundations of Philippine diplomacy. Article continues after this advertisement…

IBM CEO: AI Replaced Hundreds of Human Resources Staff

Former employees at IBM were replaced with AI, the company’s CEO confirmed earlier this week. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that the tech giant had tapped into AI to take over the work of several hundred human resources employees. However, IBM’s workforce expanded instead of shrinking—the company used the…

IBM CEO: AI Replaced Hundreds of Human Resources Staff

Former employees at IBM were replaced with AI, the company’s CEO confirmed earlier this week. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told The Wall Street Journal on Monday that the tech giant had tapped into AI to take over the work of several hundred human resources employees. However, IBM’s workforce expanded instead of shrinking—the company used the…

AI Agent for Color Red

LLMs, Agents, Tools, and Frameworks Generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI) is full of technical concepts and terms; a few terms we often encounter are Large Language Models (LLMs), AI agents, and agentic systems. Although related, they serve different (but related) purposes within the AI ecosystem. LLMs are the foundational language engines designed to process and generate…

States try to revive Medicaid work requirements : NPR

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at a campaign rally for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, in Nov., 2024. In January, Sanders announced plans to reprise an effort to institute work requirements for Medicaid, as Arkansas did under the first Trump administration. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP More than 70 million Americans who…