TechCrunch frames 2026’s browser competition around alternatives to Chrome and Safari. The roundup covers AI-centric browsers like Perplexity Comet, Dia, Opera Neon, OpenAI Atlas, and Aside, alongside privacy-focused options such as Brave, DuckDuckGo, Ladybird, and Vivaldi. It also highlights niche products including Opera Air, SigmaOS, and Zen Browser, showing how browsers are becoming AI assistants, productivity hubs, privacy layers, and wellness-oriented tools.
Hugging Face published a tutorial for running Reachy Mini conversations without cloud audio processing or API keys. The setup uses its speech-to-speech library as a cascaded VAD, STT, LLM, and TTS pipeline exposed through a Realtime API-compatible WebSocket. Recommended defaults include llama.cpp with Gemma 4, Silero VAD, Parakeet-TDT, and Qwen3-TTS, while allowing swaps to vLLM, MLX, Transformers, or hosted Responses API providers.
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