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OpenAI retired Advanced Voice Mode on July 8 and replaced it with GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model that processes input while generating output, enabling natural interruptions and backchannels. The system delegates co…
Grok 4.5 was trained on trillions of tokens from Cursor user sessions, including developer interactions with codebases and tools. The model shows strong results on workflow benchmarks and token efficiency, likely due to …
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, hiring regional managers and client partners in Paris, Munich, and Dublin. The move follows its UK launch and aims to cover Europe's three larges…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, bringing the total to 10 markets, according to a Digiday report. The company is recruiting ad-sales and customer-success roles in those countries…
AI-powered financial advisers are gaining an edge over traditional human rivals by leveraging data analysis and personalized recommendations, according to a Financial Times report. The technology enables faster, more con…
Researchers introduced the Large Behavioral Model (LBM), a promptable digital twin that learns customer decision-making from retail transactions. The model outperforms general-purpose language models on in-domain retail …
Researchers propose a programmatic solution for generating product advertising headlines using reinforcement learning on transformer-based masked language models. The method conditions on multiple products and outperform…
Researchers propose R^3, a framework for rectifying textual violations in video advertisements while preserving original semantic intent. The system uses a group-relative compliance experience extractor and curriculum re…
Omega AI launches a new agent system that automates workflows across Salesforce, Zendesk, and Datadog with 99% accuracy, charging only for completed work and offering a cheaper alternative to Claude Max and ChatGPT Pro.
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 has been experiencing recurring outages since mid-June 2026, with elevated error rates affecting API, Claude Code, Console, and claude.ai, raising reliability concerns among enterprise users. …
A developer built Figment, an AI that proactively texts users like a friend, and tested it with friends for two weeks. The AI autonomously browses the web and surprised a user by researching his past projects, leading to…
Thousands of users are abandoning Character.ai in 2026 due to repetitive responses and aggressive filters, seeking alternatives like Polybuzz, Chai, Silly Tavern, and Swerve. A new contender, chatbrat.ai, is gaining trac…
OpenAI launched Patch the Planet on June 22, 2026, deploying AI agents to audit and patch open-source software, finding hundreds of vulnerabilities in the first week including four dnsmasq CVEs, a 23-year-old OpenBSD ker…
The Pentagon awarded AeroVironment an $80.5 million task order for its Titan-MS AI-powered counter-drone system to protect nuclear bases, following unauthorized drone incursions at Barksdale Air Force Base. The system us…
A developer is considering building a service that lets readers pay $15 per book to discuss it with an official AI clone of its author, trained on the author's works and interviews, with revenue shared with the author. T…
Panora, a French AI software startup for insurance brokers, raised $5 million in seed funding led by Isai and joined by Kima Ventures, 100in, 199 Ventures, and the founders of Pennylane. The company aims to automate admi…
A developer proposes an AI agent autonomy ladder that maps tasks to five levels of autonomy—read-only, draft, copilot, supervised autopilot, and full autopilot—based on risk. The framework allows agents to act automatica…
Cao Liangliang, a former director at Google DeepMind, has been appointed chair professor of data science and AI at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, effective June 29, 2026. The move brings a leader with experience in mu…
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on the same day as OpenAI's latest models, offering a faster, cheaper AI alternative without content restrictions. Musk claims Grok 4.5 outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at a fractio…
Scott Stevenson argues that AI startups relying on wrapper products lack defensibility, calling the practice 'wrapper laundering' where founders overstate the difficulty of their work. He suggests that true moats come fr…