OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company’s “biggest competitive advantage” while it wasn’t publicly available. Internal use boosted…
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Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals and richer arrangements and is also…
Meta’s new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta’s Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech in 80-millisecond chunks, tells…
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently based on Z.AI’s GLM-5.3. The…
UC Berkeley Researchers Release CUA-Lite, an Open Platform Unifying Sandboxes, Data, Evaluation and RL for Computer-Use Agents
Training and benchmarking a computer-use agent needs four things — agents, environments, traces, and a framework to evaluate and train them — and all four…
Perplexity Details Its GPU Embedding Stack: How Ivy, Tulip and ROSE Serve pplx-embed
Retrieval quality in an AI search product is bounded by two things: how good the embedding model is, and how cheaply you can run it across an index. This…
Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
GitHub Introduces Project HydraFusion: Runtime Multi-Model Orchestration That Builds a Workflow Per Coding Task in Copilot CLI
We look at Project HydraFusion, GitHub’s research preview that treats workflow selection as an optimization problem rather than a model picker. We break…
Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required.”
Nous Research Adds One-Click Local Model Setup to Hermes Desktop
Nous Research has collapsed local model setup into a single click in Hermes Desktop. The app reads your hardware, fit-checks the catalog against your GPU,…