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Flux by Rob Manson

February 2026

Hitting Pause
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 • Rob Manson
Auto-Browsing Agents in Chrome
Google has added a Gemini “auto-browse” capability in Chrome that can scroll, click and type to complete web tasks on a user’s behalf.
 • Rob Manson
Open Source Voice Cloning & Design
Qwen has open-sourced Qwen3-TTS in a public repository, shipping high-fidelity text-to-speech alongside voice cloning and “describe-a-voice” style voice…
 • Rob Manson
Speech Recognition for 1,600+ languages
Meta has published Omnilingual ASR, an open-source multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) release covering 1,600+ languages, with an…
 • Rob Manson
Body Sensor Networks
Body sensor networks are moving from “a wearable” to “a surface”.
 • Rob Manson
On Skin Sweat Sensor
On-skin sweat sensors are a quiet but important signal - your biology is becoming just another data stream.
 • Rob Manson
Live Tracking Is About To Change - Again!
Computer Vision based Augmented Reality made Live Tracking Mainstream. Recently this evolved to benefit from AI. And it's now about to go through…
 • Rob Manson
Improving Scene-Based Understanding
OpenVoxel is another step towards AI that doesn’t just see images - it understands scenes.
 • Rob Manson
AI That Predicts The Impact Of Genes
DNA Decoder is a quiet but profound Signal - a unified “sequence-to-function” model (AlphaGenome) that takes up to 1 megabase of DNA as input and…
 • Rob Manson
Now AI Can Rent A Human
rentahuman.ai is a deeply weird Signal - and a surprisingly clean one. It’s essentially a marketplace for “humans as actuators” (or meat puppets).
 • Rob Manson
Single Camera Depth Estimation To Scale
Metric Anything is one of those Signals that sounds a bit niche - until you realise it’s a prerequisite for “everything” we keep calling “spatial…
 • Rob Manson
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