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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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Gregor Kobsik

Read full article about: Microsoft AI bets on cheap specialist models instead of chasing the frontier Suleyman also wants swappable models that keep Microsoft from relying on one model family. Whether ...
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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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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit ...
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AI and society

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Google Deepmind unveils Gemini Robotics 2 to power robots of all shapes from tabletop arms to humanoids Google Deepmind has introduced Gemini Robotics 2, which it calls its ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: OpenAI goes full China pricing mode with an 80 percent cut to its most affordable GPT-5.6 model OpenAI is cutting GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent, ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe ...
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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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Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap

The second Anthropic Economic Index analyzes how Claude usage is shifting across the economy. One key finding: the longer people use the AI model, the better their results get. That could widen ...
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Hacker wins $47,000 by tricking AI chatbot with smart prompting

A hacker successfully manipulated an AI chatbot called Freysa through clever text prompting, winning a $47,000 prize pool after 482 attempts. The experiment was simple: participants could try to ...