Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time speech-to-text model that streams transcription, detects sentence endpoints, and identifies more than 20 distinct speakers without a separate processing step. Trained on over 70 languages (25 thoroughly validated), the model handles long recordings beyond an hour and supports code-switching between languages, all offered via API at $0.18 per hour of audio.
The developer has released Muse Spark 1.3, an updated AI model available now through Muse Code and the Meta Model API. The update focuses on sustaining longer, multi-step tasks, following complex instructions more reliably, and collaborating more actively with users by asking clarifying questions and checking in before consequential actions. A more advanced reasoning mode is expected soon pending additional safety testing.
Archiv is a newly launched app that lets users photograph mundane items—fire hydrants, furniture, food—and automatically arranges them into a stylized, gallery-like personal catalog. The tool blends photography and organization, giving users a portable, aesthetically curated record of objects they encounter.
Meta unveiled Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio perception model, capable of transcribing over 20 speakers simultaneously while switching between more than 20 validated languages, including mid-sentence code-switching. CEO Mark Zuckerberg demoed the tool on X, noting it uses adaptive delay to balance speed and accuracy. The model is now available through Meta's Mac AI app, Muse Code, and its Model API at $3 per 1,000 audio minutes.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Voice Transcribe, a streaming speech recognition model that combines transcription, speaker diarization for over 20 voices, and endpointing in a single pass. It supports more than 70 languages, with 25 validated at launch, handles recordings over an hour long, and allows mid-sentence code-switching between languages. The model is live now in Meta AI for Mac, Muse Code, and via the Meta Model API at $3 per 1,000 audio-minutes.
The ZCOM computer museum in Hoyerswerda, Germany, may shut down by year's end after the municipal housing company withdrew its annual €110,000 subsidy. The city council is now deciding whether to continue funding the museum, which has drawn only about 10,000 of its targeted 20,000-25,000 annual visitors since reopening in 2017. Without a new backer, the foundation running ZCOM says it will have to close the institution.
The Zuse-Computer-Museum (ZCOM) in Hoyerswerda, Germany, held its last public opening days before a planned shutdown, with its trustee foundation confirming in July 2026 that the museum will close and its unique computing-history collection dismantled by year's end. Visitor numbers plunged to roughly 3,600 in two months, far below the 30,000 annual target set at its 2017 founding, leaving the institution unable to sustain itself financially.
A donor grant received in summer 2025 has enabled organizers to begin indexing the long-stored collection of the former Computer Museum of America and San Diego Computer Museum, which has sat in the basement of SDSU's Love Library for over two decades. The archive includes not just vintage computers and hardware but magazines, newsletters, software, books and manuals documenting the rise of the Information Age. Organizers are also launching fundraising and marketing efforts to raise awareness of the collection's existence and value.
Melissa Chiu, who has led the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., is stepping down to become director of New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She announced the move in April, describing it as her long-sought career goal. In a recent conversation with Fast Company, Chiu discussed how museums can play a role during periods of social and political tension.
In 1799, Italian physicist Alessandro Volta built a stack of alternating zinc and copper discs separated by brine-soaked paper, creating the first device to produce a steady electric current. His invention, later called the voltaic pile, was a direct rebuttal to fellow scientist Luigi Galvani's theory that dissected frog legs twitched due to an innate 'animal electricity' generated within living tissue. Volta argued instead that the electricity came from the contact between two different metals, with the frog's moist tissue merely acting as a conductor.
Yayoi Kusama Studio announced that the Japanese artist died on August 14 in a Tokyo hospital, without disclosing a cause of death. Kusama, celebrated for her repetitive dot motifs across paintings, sculptures and immersive installations, continued painting until her final days.
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist famous for polka-dot patterns and pumpkin sculptures, died on the 14th at a Tokyo hospital due to multiple organ failure. She was 97 and a recipient of the Order of Culture. A private funeral was held with close family, and a public memorial is planned later.
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