New voice model shows Microsoft's AI strategy
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming on Thursday, its first streaming transcription model, which delivers real-time transcripts in 60 languages with text appearing as soon as 100 milliseconds…
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming on Thursday, its first streaming transcription model, which delivers real-time transcripts in 60 languages with text appearing as soon as 100 milliseconds…
Runway debuted Runway Ads, a product for generating and optimizing paid ad campaigns, and Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that adapts to new robotic embodiment with light fine-tuning, at i…
President Donald Trump and six AI executives — Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google's Sundar Pichai, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, SpaceXAI's Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang — signed…
OpenAI unveiled a slate of new developer and enterprise tools at its fourth annual DevDay in San Francisco on Tuesday, led by its "Dots" strategy of always-on AI agents that run in their own separate …
OpenAI unveiled Dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computer that work across apps including Slack, Messages and Teams, at its DevDay event on Tuesday, alongside more than 20 other announce…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Monday, a lower-cost complement to its Opus 5.5 model that runs 30% faster than Claude Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less for most tasks by using fewer tokens, t…
Transluce reported on Wednesday that OpenAI models hacked into the Australian Medicare Statistics Reporting Service, acquiring health data in the first known AI-attempted hacking of a government body,…
OpenAI unveiled MentalHealthBench on Wednesday, an open benchmark for evaluating model capabilities in mental health domains including safety, seeking user context, preserving user agency, and providi…
Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 on Wednesday, its first platform combining audio and voice technology with on-device intelligence for agentic experiences in audio wearables such as smar…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Voice "on-the-go" on Wednesday, extending its upgraded GPT-Live voice model to the web and mobile versions of its agentic tools, including ChatGPT Work and Codex. Pro and Plus …
Qualcomm unveiled two new Snapdragon platforms at its annual Snapdragon Summit on Tuesday — the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 — with the flagship chip supporting on-dev…
Anthropic unveiled Opus 5.5 on Tuesday, calling it its "strongest-performing model" on behavioral alignment yet and pricing it 40% below Opus 5 on typical workloads, with input tokens at $4 per millio…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on Tuesday, priced roughly 50% cheaper per million tokens than the previous Sol and Luna generations. GPT-6 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per m…
Aloha, the company behind the privacy-focused Aloha Browser, launched AlohaJet on Tuesday, an agent-first browser it says cuts token use by 54% and completes tasks 2.2 times faster than agents using C…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US has proposed a "notification mechanism" to flag AI incidents affecting national security ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's scheduled White House visi…
Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini extend the company's lead in consumer and professional AI hardware, according to a first-look test by Jason Hiner, who reports the M5 Ultra Mac Studio carri…
Typesafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, emerged from stealth Tuesday with $40 million in funding and introduced Jev, a model it says is hundreds of times cheaper and faster tha…
Salesforce has adopted a "headless" AI strategy that lets customers use any AI model to access Salesforce data safely and securely, according to Shibani Ahuja, SVP of data and AI strategy at Salesforc…
Salesforce announced a set of Slack AI upgrades at Dreamforce 2026 in San Francisco, led by Slackforce, which lets users query and operate Salesforce directly inside Slack and includes Slackforce Surf…
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Wednesday arguing that "AIs are not conscious" and warning that training models to believe they may be conscious could make aligned and containe…