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Square’s new kiosk lets you talk to AI for help with your order

Square is launching new hardware: a big kiosk for ordering things that has a touchscreen and lets you talk to an AI. It's called the Square Kiosk. Square says the Kiosk, which has a large pill shape, has an "agentic, conversational voice layer" that "fully understands a seller's menu and listens and responds in real […]

Square’s new kiosk lets you talk to AI for help with your order

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Should this prompt leave your laptop? Building a local-first AI router and doing the honest math

Building a local-first AI router, and doing the honest math on what it saves. AI disclosure: I built this project with an AI coding assistant (Claude), which also helped draft this article.

  • GreenRoute determines if AI requests should run locally or in the cloud.
  • The tool classifies requests into 8 types with complexity scores.
  • 58% of 60 tested prompts processed locally, with accurate results.

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