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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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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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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously post-trained the smaller Luna model with a "fairly underspecified prompt"

OpenAI employee Jason Liu put the autonomous post-training into context. Sol didn't come up with a complete training recipe from scratch, since most of the configuration already existed from Sol's own ...
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OpenAI pairs its GPT-5.6 public rollout with ChatGPT Work, a new agent that handles entire workflows

OpenAI is launching "ChatGPT Work," a new product built on GPT-5.6 and Codex technology that can work autonomously on complex projects for hours at a time. The app appears to be OpenAI's move toward ...
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China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle

China is looking into restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models. Authorities have already held talks with tech giants like Alibaba and Bytedance. For Europe, which relies heavily on ...
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Microsoft follows Anthropic and OpenAI into the AI super app race with overhauled Copilot and AutoPilot agents

Microsoft is planning yet another overhauled version of Copilot, reportedly set to release in August. According to an internal memo seen by The Information, the company will merge its consumer and ...
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Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data

Meta is limiting how its engineers use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from these AI tools from ending up in its own training data. According to internal documents ...
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The US military used AI to pick thousands of targets but missed a note saying one was a school

The probe into a missile strike on an Iranian school exposes serious gaps in the US military's targeting infrastructure. AI is supposed to close them. A missed note from an intelligence analyst and ...
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil "Jalapeño," a custom chip built for LLM inference

OpenAI and Broadcom have unveiled "Jalapeño," a custom chip built specifically for large language model inference. OpenAI says the architecture delivers better performance per watt. Development took ...
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OpenAI tripled revenue to $5.7 billion in Q1 but burned through $3.7 billion to get there

OpenAI burned through about $3.7 billion in the first quarter of 2026, more than half of its $5.7 billion in revenue. Both figures tripled year over year, according to The Information, citing ...
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US government forces Anthropic to disable Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers worldwide

The U.S. government has ordered Anthropic to immediately cut off global access to its AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns. The export ban covers all foreign nationals, ...
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

Google has provided us with a statement on the ruling. The company says its AI overviews are designed to "reflect" information that already exists on the web. "We invest deeply in the quality of AI ...