Amazon Nova Act browses complex tasks across websites

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Here is what we have Today:

• 🤖 Nova Act browses the web while you sleep.

• 🧠 UC Berkeley's brain-to-speech tech works in 1 second.

• 😈 First open model since GPT-2 coming "soon."

• 🗣️ PlayAI's Dialog model sounds unnervingly human.

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🧠 Amazon’s Nova Act AI Takes Over Web Browsing

Amazon just dropped Nova Act, an AI agent that can navigate web browsers like a pro—filling forms, managing calendars, and completing multi-step tasks without human supervision.

Developers also get a powerful SDK to build custom AI agents for web automation.

💡 The details:
✅ Outperforms Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s Computer Use Agent in browser task benchmarks.
✅ Automates web actions—filling forms, booking appointments, managing workflows.
✅ Powers Alexa+, Amazon’s upcoming upgrade that could bring AI agents to millions.
✅ Built by experts, led by ex-OpenAI researchers David Luan and Pieter Abbeel at Amazon’s SF AGI Lab.

⚡ Why it matters:
Amazon isn’t top-of-mind for AI, but with millions of Alexa users, it might be the first to bring AI agents to the mainstream. However, with AI agents still prone to errors, Nova Act’s real-world reliability could make or break public trust in autonomous AI.

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🧠 AI Restores Lost Voices in Just One Second

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF have developed an AI that transforms brain signals into speech with just a one-second delay—a massive leap for brain-computer interfaces.

The Breakthrough:

• The AI deciphers signals from the motor cortex, converting intended speech into words instantly—a huge jump from the 8-second delay of earlier systems.

• It reconstructs speech using the patient’s own pre-injury voice, making communication sound natural and personal.

• Unlike past models, it generates words outside its training data, proving it’s learning real speech patterns rather than just memorizing phrases.

• Works across multiple brain-sensing technologies, making it widely adaptable.

Why It Matters:

For those who have lost their voice due to ALS, stroke, or paralysis, this tech is life-changing. With near-instant responses, speech restoration is no longer just an experiment—it’s a reality.

Trending Today

• OpenAI has finally announced it’s planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model (which will be the first since GPT-2) with reasoning capabilities” similar to its o3-mini reasoning model, over “the coming months after dropping hints for months.

• Runway just introduced Gen-4, a new AI model that brings increased consistency and control to video generations – with enhancements designed to be incorporated into professional cinematic workflows.

• Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Exp. scored a 130 on Mensa Norway’s IQ test, the highest of any model and well surpassing the average human score of 100.

• PlayAI is teaming up with AI hardware company Groq to make its human-sounding AI voice model, Dialog, without sacrificing audio quality. Groq’s speedy infrastructure helps the model generate audio 15 times faster than real-time.

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