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Perplexity says users can now guide Perplexity Computer by voice, not just text. The update turns mid-task feedback and redirection into a spoken control loop for long-running agent work on the web.

A well-received r/LocalLLaMA post described an Android app that turns EPUB books into spoken audio entirely on-device using Kokoro TTS. The project highlights how mobile inference speed, APK size, and thermal behavior now shape practical offline AI products.

An r/MachineLearning post introduced TraceML, an open-source tool that instruments PyTorch runs with a single context manager and surfaces timing, memory, and rank skew while training is still running. The pitch is practical observability rather than heavyweight profiling.

Cisco expanded AI Defense and AI-aware SASE to help enterprises control model risks, shadow AI, and shadow agents. The move reflects how security vendors are shifting from app-centric controls to policies that also cover prompts, agents, and AI usage paths.

Samsung says it will transition global manufacturing into AI-Driven Factories by 2030. The roadmap combines digital twin simulations, AI agents, and in-factory companion robots to optimize production site by site.

Google used AI Impact Summit 2026 to bundle infrastructure, public-sector grants, and workforce programs into one AI adoption package. The announcements include $15 billion for Indian cloud and AI infrastructure, two new $30 million initiatives for government and science, and a training effort aimed at 720,000 workers.

A well-received MachineLearning post introduced GoodSeed as a simpler experiment tracker that stores runs in local SQLite, serves them through a built-in web app, and optionally syncs to a remote API. The project also logs hardware metrics, stdout/stderr, Git state, and offers a migration path for Neptune users.

Google's March Pixel Drop begins rolling out over the next several weeks with Gemini actions across apps, multi-object Circle to Search, Magic Cue restaurant suggestions and new Pixel Watch safety features. The update also expands scam detection, call notes, Find Hub and Satellite SOS availability.

Google opened the AI Center Berlin on March 5 and said the site will connect teams from Google DeepMind, Google Research and Google Cloud with researchers, businesses and policymakers. At the launch, Google also announced long-term research partnerships with TUM and Helmholtz Munich.

Cloudflare says Cloudflare One now links data security controls from endpoints to AI prompts. The update adds browser RDP clipboard controls, richer SaaS operation logging, on-device DLP, and Microsoft 365 Copilot scanning through API CASB.

Google says Cinematic Video Overviews are rolling out to NotebookLM Ultra users in English. The company says the feature combines Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo 3 to generate more immersive videos than the earlier narrated-slide format.

A high-signal LocalLLaMA post introduced a free patent search engine that indexes 3.5 million US patents in a 74GB SQLite database, uses FTS5/BM25 for ranking, and runs Nemotron 9B locally for 100-tag classification and query expansion. The project is notable because it rejects vector-search defaults in favor of exact phrase matching and a deliberately simple deployment stack.