Introducing GPT-Live
A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.
It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.
A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.
It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.
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Small businesses like coffee shops can use Gemini to save time on graphic design, email marketing and sales forecasting.
OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation.
Verity Harding tells WIRED that the US government’s nationalistic attitude toward AI is evidence that a worst-case scenario is taking shape.
More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.
Elon Musk's tech company released the newest version of Grok on Wednesday, promising a cheaper, more efficient alternative to other powerful AI models.
OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
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For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI.
Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect’s goal is to give organizations capabilities to train their own agentic systems without relying on frontier AI labs.
Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra is offering leading performance at lower cost than top closed models with the largest and most widely adopted AI agent orchestration platform.
xAI releases Grok 4.5, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. In coding benchmarks, the model trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 but needs 4.2 times fewer tokens than Opus 4.8.
OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time using a full-duplex architecture.
Mistral is entering the robotics market with Robostral Navigate, an 8B model that guides robots through unknown environments using only a single RGB camera.
Anthropic recommends using the expensive Claude Fable 5 mainly as a planner for smaller models instead of running it on every task.
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine.
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Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote MCP servers, use custom functions alongside sandbox tools, and refresh credentials without losing state.
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Meta's Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Image, its first image generation model.
OpenAI's new family of frontier models is no longer restricted and set to roll out more widely on Thursday. Enter, Elon Musk.
OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 on Thursday after the U.S. government lifted its release ban following additional testing.
U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year — and a small cluster of giant artificial intelligence rounds accounted for almost the entire jump.
Nvidia is increasingly embracing partnerships with emerging AI chip developers, signaling a broader shift from competing solely on hardware to enabling heterogeneous AI infrastructure, according to The Information.
China has intensified its scrutiny of US AI software after issuing a security alert over Anthropic's AI coding assistant, Claude Code, further escalating technology tensions between Washington and Beijing.
China's bid to replace Nvidia in AI chips faces a constraint more immediate than design capability: SMIC's limited 7nm-class manufacturing capacity.
China's rumored tentative plan to allow a handful of its largest artificial intelligence (AI) companies to purchase a small number of Nvidia H200 chips has implications that extend well beyond a single procurement decision.
Analog Devices (ADI) announced that it has completed its acquisition of Empower Semiconductor, a move it said is designed to bolster the company's role as a comprehensive power partner spanning the entire AI ecosystem, from grid infrastructure to core computing systems.
Meta said it's investing $9 billion to build a new data center in Alberta, Canada, making it the company's 33rd data center in the world.
Artificial intelligence training startup Prime Intellect Inc. has raised $130 million in funding from a group of prominent investors.
Infrastructure design is being redefined by agentic AI, pushing the industry toward system-level AI infrastructure optimization, balancing performance and cost across diverse workloads rather than focusing on faster chips alone.
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SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.
OpenAI is turning education AI adoption into an enablement problem, not just a product-access problem.
A newly disclosed vulnerability pattern dubbed “GhostApproval” has exposed a critical security flaw in six of the most widely used AI coding assistants: Amazon Q Developer, Anthropic Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf, allowing malicious repositories to bypass Human-in-the-Loop safety...
OpenAI launched GPT-Live on July 8, 2026: full-duplex architecture, background reasoning delegation to GPT-5.5, four reasoning tiers, visual cards. Full review inside.
China's reported H200 shift matters because chip access remains a binding constraint for model training and inference economics.
OpenAI's Northslope deal matters because enterprise AI competition is moving from model access toward implementation capacity.
Anthropic's GRAM research matters because it targets a hard safety engineering question: how to limit access to dual-use model knowledge without training and operating many separate frontier models.
OpenAI's publication matters because it turns national-security AI deployment from private deal-making into a documented policy surface that enterprise, security, and governance teams can evaluate.
Note: the modeling assumptions and conclusion are Thomas Kwa's opinion, and others at METR disagree.
Reading between the lines of today's GPT-Live release. Also: TK
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Digiday reports that **OpenAI** is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success roles tied to **France, Germany and Ireland**, a move it says would extend the company's ad pilot to **10 markets** globally.
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OpenAI's audit is a warning for teams that use coding-agent benchmarks as buying, routing, or release gates: a rising score can reflect benchmark defects as much as model progress.
Diane du Paty and Fabian Langlet are building broker software for Europe's messy carrier portals, starting in France, Belgium and the UK.
AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex are increasingly appearing in enterprise environments, and new telemetry shows they are unintentionally triggering security detections tied to credential access and living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins).
PolyU appointed **Cao Liangliang** as chair professor of data science and AI effective **June 29, 2026**, after senior research roles at **Google DeepMind**, Google, Apple and OPPO, according to PolyU and SCMP.
Google is turning Gemini API agents into more production-ready workers rather than single-request demos.
Poetic announced on June 10, 2026 that it raised **$50 million** in Series A funding at a **$500 million** valuation, with **Kleiner Perkins** leading and **OpenAI** participating.
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Ahoy used a **July 8, 2026** public launch event at San Francisco's **Pink Painted Lady** to promote its **agentic meeting scheduler** and business aide, according to **Mission Local**.
Even before OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they are distorting home sales in the San Francisco Bay Area, as people race to buy and sellers ask for stock instead of cash.
Mana Jampala is a Gen Alpha founder who is already building enterprise tools using ChatGPT and Claude Code.
AI distillation threatens top AI firms like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google as rivals use it to replicate cutting-edge models affordably.
Joshua Achiam spent nearly nine years at OpenAI researching AI safety and made a memorable appearance in the Musk v. Altman trial.
Taiwan's AI data center push is exposing a wider global problem: artificial intelligence needs vast, reliable power, but grids, permits, and green-energy rules are not keeping up. As countries race to host new computing hubs, the speed of AI deployment is increasingly determined by electricity access, not just chips.
Chinese companies are shifting more AI accelerator spending away from Nvidia and toward domestic suppliers, a sign that US-China technology tensions are no longer just reshaping chip exports, but the buildout of China's AI infrastructure itself.
Foxconn chairman Young Liu said sovereign AI is expanding beyond data residency to AI data centers and their supply chains, forcing a structural shift in global manufacturing.
The AI data center boom is reshaping the memory supply chain, giving Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron greater pricing power while pushing cost pressure into PCs, smartphones, cars, and other end markets.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a Cursor-trained model for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work.
Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Corp. has released a new model called Grok 4.5, in what is its first major launch since it went public a few weeks earlier.
OpenAI Group PBC today introduced GPT-Live, a family of artificial intelligence models optimized to process spoken instructions.
The AI infrastructure boom has trained the industry’s attention on silicon and power, but a more fundamental constraint within the capital stack is quietly throttling the speed of global data center deployment.
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Chip startup SambaNova Inc. today announced that it has raised $1 billion in funding at a $11 billion valuation.
The shift from model training to agentic inference is forcing a fundamental rethink of how artificial intelligence infrastructure is built and which components carry the most strategic weight.
Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported.
SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, its most capable model yet. It is the company’s first release since going public and buying the AI coding startup Cursor.
ChatGPT's voice assistant quirks were fodder for internet punchlines. Its new update aims to make talking with AI feel more human.
OpenAI released GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models now powering ChatGPT Voice.
OpenAI wants you to talk to ChatGPT, not type at it. On 8 July it launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models.