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GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API. GPT Transcribe handles pre-recorded audio files, processing them about 34 times ...
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Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times the previous record of 7.8 percent set by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (Max). The ARC Prize team attributes the lead ...
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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

Update from July 24, 2026: The consortium published version 3.0 of its pretraining report and documented a contamination incident that the community discovered in the disclosed training data after the ...
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Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to question their compute advantage

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a model reportedly close to matching top Western models. The launch raises fresh doubts about whether U.S. export controls are actually working. Even an OpenAI ...
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Kimi's open model K3 nears GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 while signaling the end of super cheap Chinese AI

Kimi has released K3, a multimodal open-weight model built on a mixture-of-experts architecture with 896 experts, 2.8 trillion parameters, and a context window of one million tokens. Full weights are ...
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OpenAI wants developers to stop typing commands and start using a joystick to control their AI agents

OpenAI and keyboard manufacturer Work Louder have unveiled the Codex Micro, a compact hardware controller designed for working with AI agents. Instead of constantly switching between chat windows and ...
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Gemma 4 gets a stealth update that fixes tool calling bugs and truncated responses under the same name

Google shipped an update to its open AI model Gemma 4 that speeds up performance on Nvidia Hopper GPUs, fixes tool calling bugs, and addresses problems with truncated responses. Turning on Flash ...
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OpenAI's Codex now encrypts instructions between AI agents, leaving developers blind to internal delegation

OpenAI's Codex now hides what its AI agents tell each other. Developers can no longer see how tasks get delegated internally. Since early June, OpenAI's coding tool Codex has encrypted the ...
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Meta employees sue over layoffs they say were driven by discriminatory AI selection systems

Former and current Meta employees are suing the company over allegedly discriminatory layoffs carried out by AI. According to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in California, Meta allegedly used ...
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OpenAI's first hardware product is a screenless AI speaker designed to feel alive

OpenAI is planning a portable, screenless smart speaker as an AI companion for the home. The device is meant to feel alive, but Apple's trade secrets lawsuit could delay its launch. OpenAI's ...
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DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round

DeepSeek is planning a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation to build its own data centers and buy AI chips. The fresh capital would fund an aggressive expansion strategy. Permanent rock-bottom ...
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ChatGPT returns to WhatsApp in Europe after EU forces Meta to open the door to rival AI bots

OpenAI has re-enabled ChatGPT on WhatsApp, but only in the European Economic Area, covering the 27 EU member states plus Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway. Users have been able to reach the chatbot ...