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OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
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Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude...
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Meta is making its AI chatbot more like an assistant
Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events and generate daily briefings, as well as perform in-depth research that you can steer as...
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Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
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Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool
“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
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At AI Summit, South Korea Outlines Its AI Future With NVIDIA and Partners
At this week’s AI Summit in San Francisco, South Korean President Jae Myung Lee and some of the country’s top business leaders and researchers are meeting with NVIDIA and ecosystem partners to chart Korea’s AI progress. Building on NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s visit to Korea last month,...
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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
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AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
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Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions
Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while...
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Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it...
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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech...
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Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
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OpenAI won't let some customers export their chats, but this tool will
ChatGPT Business and Enterprise users lack the standard chat export option, so third-party utilities like scrapemychats fill the gap
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The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First, Hugging Face offers a truly rich target if you're trying to find potential...
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Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster...
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
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Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.
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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
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How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered...
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OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of...
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Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the...
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Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a...
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Launching Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.
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GeForce NOW Sets Sail With ‘Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame’ Joining the Cloud
Lock in and load up the cloud. GFN Thursday brings fresh updates and new adventures, all ready to play without waiting for downloads. Set sail in Path of Exile: Curse of the Allflame and charge in Battlefield 6 Season 4 both launching major content for members this week. Then revisit Capcom legends...
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
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ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push
ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.
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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a...
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Remember Jibo? Its Successor Is a Wearable That Turns Your Life Into AI Slop
With “blessings” from the original Jibo founders, iKairos is a wearable or desk-mounted “AI journal” that turns your family moments into AI images and video.
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IBM insists AI didn't kill software deals, just delayed them
Big Blue says customers postponed rather than abandoned major purchases as hardware soaked up enterprise budgets
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Best Open Speech Recognition (ASR) Models in 2026: WER, Languages, Latency, and License Compared
Open speech recognition stopped being a Whisper monoculture in 2026. Cohere Transcribe, IBM Granite Speech 4.1, ARK-ASR and MOSS-Transcribe are now separated by less than one WER point on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard — which means rank no longer decides anything. This roundup compares 16...
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Meet Gigatoken: A Rust BPE Tokenizer that Encodes Text at 24.53 GB/s, up to 989x Faster than HuggingFace Tokenizers
Gigatoken is an MIT-licensed Rust BPE tokenizer that encodes text at gigabytes per second. On a 144-core AMD EPYC 9565, it runs GPT-2 tokenization at 24.53 GB/s. That is 989x HuggingFace tokenizers and 681x tiktoken, against baselines already written in multithreaded Rust. The gains come from a...
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Anthropic Releases Claude Security Plugin for Claude Code in Beta: A Multi-Agent Vulnerability Scanner That Runs in Your Terminal
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta. The plugin runs a multi-agent vulnerability scan of a repository from inside an existing Claude Code session, then turns the findings you select into patch files that you review and apply yourself. Anthropic emphasized the...
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NVIDIA AI Supercomputer Comes Online at Naval Postgraduate School
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang today visited the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to commission an NVIDIA DGX GB300 system — bringing one of the world’s most powerful AI platforms fully online for the students, researchers and faculty at the U.S. military’s flagship graduate...
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Quoting Seth Larson
The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects were compromised. As far as we are...
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Cursor Releases Cursor Router: A Request-Level Classifier Delivering Frontier Coding Quality at 30–50% Lower Cost
Cursor has made Cursor Router generally available for Teams and Enterprise plans. The system classifies each request on query, context, task complexity and domain, then routes it to the most suitable model. Cursor reports frontier-quality output at 60% savings in online A/B tests, and 30–50%...
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Research-Grade EdgeBench Analysis: AI Agent Benchmarking, Leaderboard Analytics, Scaling Laws, and Evaluation Metrics
In this tutorial, we explore EdgeBench as a practical benchmark for evaluating advanced AI agents across diverse task categories, runtime environments, and interaction-time budgets. We begin by downloading the dataset snapshot from Hugging Face, parsing the released task specifications, and...
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Unsloth vs Axolotl vs TRL vs LLaMA-Factory: A Fine-Tuning Framework Comparison on Speed, VRAM, and Multi-GPU
Four open source projects dominate LLM fine-tuning today. Unsloth, Axolotl, TRL, and LLaMA-Factory all wrap the same underlying PyTorch and Hugging Face stack. They diverge on where they spend engineering effort. Unsloth rewrites kernels. Axolotl composes parallelism strategies. TRL defines the...
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