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OpenAI releases GPT-Live-1 as a developer API. The full-duplex speech model scores 80.1 percent in interactivity tests, up from 45.4 percent for its predecessor. At $0.05 per minute, it's not cheap. The article OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps…
A former Google DeepMind spokesperson says talk of AI-driven human extinction was "external communication about the possibility of human extinction was not permitted, by anyone, at any level of the organization." Internally, the team knew AI alignment was not solved,…
Arena.ai analyzed how Claude's writing changed from Fable 5 to Fable 5.1 across tens of thousands of benchmark responses. Fable 5.1 writes more matter-of-fact but also more verbose. The article Claude Fable 5.1's language is less "load-bearing" than its predecessor's…
Deepseek releases V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with 552 billion parameters that cuts KV cache memory to a quarter of its predecessor. On the DeepSWE coding benchmark, it narrowly beats Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol, even though only 16 billion parameters…
Meta unveils Muse, an AI agent that books travel, handles purchases, and sends emails through WhatsApp, complete with a payment feature that runs through Stripe's Link. That puts Meta ahead of OpenAI, which stopped its direct checkout feature in ChatGPT.…
Nvidia and Palantir want to run supply chains with AI. The article Nvidia and Palantir team up to run supply chains with AI, starting with Nvidia's own million-part operation appeared first on The Decoder.
Jacob Coxon, a departing Anthropic researcher, warned on CNN that self-improving AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Safety researchers at Anthropic and OpenAI share his views, and US politicians and Joe Rogan have picked up the topic. But cultural…
The Ramp AI Index for September 2026 shows AI spending per employee among the top 1 percent of US companies fell nearly 10 percent in August. The price per million tokens has dropped 41 percent since March 2026, and companies…
Anthropic published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy through 2030. In the extreme scenario, output doubles every 4.5 years and knowledge worker unemployment hits 17.9 percent. CEO Dario Amodei's own warnings from May land squarely in…
Suno has unveiled a new AI music model generation, v6, in three versions, built together with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe. All older models are being shut down. Songs can now be partially changed through text commands or generated…
Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, has quit and accuses both companies of knowingly risking human extinction. Anthropic colleague Evan Hubinger puts the odds of a misaligned superintelligent AI wiping out humanity within the next decade…
Qualcomm is designing custom chips for AWS across multiple product generations, with a focus on AI inference. The article AWS is using Qualcomm for AI inference while Qualcomm uses AWS Bedrock to design the chips appeared first on The Decoder.
