The Sub-300ms Latency Figure for GPT-Live Is Not for GPT-Live
OpenAI has published an architecture account of its full-duplex voice system and no end-to-end latency benchmark at all....
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Saudi Arabia's humain-m3 Is MiniMax's M3, Under MiniMax's Licence
Same 428 billion parameters, same 23 billion active, same mixture-of-experts design as the model Shanghai open-weighted...
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Costs 2.5 Times More and Matches GPT-5.6 on the Independent Index
OpenAI called the launch the start of the AGI era. Artificial Analysis, which OpenAI neither ran nor selected, scores As...
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Six AI Releases in Three Days, and Two Were New Models
The 72-hour launch count folds together two new models, a safeguard variant, two point releases, a pricing tier and a fe...
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Failed Together. The Azure Story Is Unproven.
ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all went down on Thursday morning. Coverage has settled on a shared Azure failure that no compa...
Nvidia Confirms Its $12.93bn Hugging Face Deal, and the Seller Called First
The deal is signed, and our 1 September caution is discharged. Delangue says he went to Huang, and the same company refu...
New York City Halts Student-Facing AI for a Year, Covering 600,000 Students
A moratorium from 2-K to grade 8, five high school pilots capped at 50,000, and a companion-chatbot prohibition that app...
A Select Committee Chair Says Keeping Both Roles Is a Clear Conflict
Dame Chi Onwurah says movement between sectors is acceptable and that remaining chair of a public research funder while...
Google Pics Does Not Have to Beat Canva. It Is Already in the Tab.
Google Pics arrives inside Docs and Slides rather than as a destination. A bundled tool never has to win an evaluation,...
OpenAI's Astra Found Two Zero-Days in a Version Built for Testing
OpenAI says Astra found and exploited two zero-days autonomously, in a version modified for testing. That is a bounded,...
Nvidia Buying Hugging Face Is Reported, Not Signed, and Not Confirmed
Nvidia is reported to have agreed US$12.9bn for Hugging Face, against roughly US$150m of revenue. At about 86 times, the...
An AI Super PAC Is Advertising in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin. The Fight Is Zoning.
Federal AI law is written in Washington. Zoning, water withdrawal and ratepayer cost allocation are decided in county co...
The Pentagon Onboarded 1.7 Million People. That Is Not Usage.
Three million personnel, 1.7 million accounts provisioned. The figure measures how much work the department did, not how...
Japan's Banks Waited Eleven Weeks for a Capability Anyone Can Download
A US directive covered foreign nationals, so Anthropic switched the models off for everyone, including Americans. That i...
Meta Promised Frontier Weights Three Weeks Ago. The Repository Is Still Empty.
Zuckerberg promised the weights for Meta's frontier model three weeks ago, with no date attached. We queried the reposit...
The EU AI Act's High-Risk Rules Were Delayed. Its Transparency Rules Started on Time.
The August headlines said the AI Act had been delayed. What was delayed is the high-risk tier; the general-purpose model...
Anthropic's AI Beat Human Researchers, but Only on Problems a Computer Can Score
Automated agents beat experienced human proposals within six hours, at four dollars an hour against a hundred and fifty....
Sony and Warner Are Suing Anthropic, and Naming Its Founders Personally
The complaint names Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants, which is a high bar and a deliberate choice...
The Anonymous Model Called Ox Alpha Was Z.ai's, and Its Weights Are MIT
An unattributed model ran free on OpenRouter and OpenCode for six days before researchers fingerprinted it and the lab c...
Salesforce Put Its CRM Inside Claude and Made Claude Slack's Default Model
The 37-skill plugin is what was announced. The change that reaches everyone is Claude becoming Slack's default model, si...
Nvidia's Reported $12.9bn Hugging Face Deal Is Unconfirmed
Reports put the price at US$12.9bn and several outlets have run it as settled. Neither company has confirmed anything, a...
Saudi Arabia's Arabic Model Reaches Microsoft's Developer Platform, Not Yet Its Office Suite
ALLAM lands on Foundry now; the Microsoft 365 Copilot integration is stated as planned, with no date. Sovereign AI progr...
Moonshot Wants 30% of What the Clouds Earn From Its Model
The usual arrangement runs the other way: the platform takes a cut from the model. Asking Microsoft, Amazon and Google t...
Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk, and AI Did Not Replace Those Workers
The marketplace Bezos called artificial artificial intelligence closes on 30 September. Demand for human judgement grew;...
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