Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI releases new transcription and…
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Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows
US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. The article Businesses are using more AI…
Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing that leaves the rest of your picture alone
Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3 Image, the image side of its Flux 3 model family. It supports multi-step edits without changing other parts of the…
Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn’t take a clear lead
Gemini 4 Argon is Google’s first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but can’t keep up with Anthropic’s…
OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer
OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It’s meant to operate Synopsys’ EDA tools like a seasoned engineer…
Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
Google is replacing Gems with “Skills” in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing “/” or that Gemini runs…
Meta dodges billions in US taxes by calling its AI data centers experiments
Meta classifies its AI data centers as “pilot models” and Nvidia chips as experimental materials to save billions in federal taxes. In 2025 alone, that…
Nearly half of test subjects mistook Tavus’ AI video avatar for a real person on a one-minute call
Tavus has introduced Griffin, what the company calls the first “Human Interaction Model.” The AI holds video calls in real time, processing facial…
Ideogram says its new model can edit part of an image without messing up the rest
Ideogram’s new model Ideogram 4.5 promises to edit only the areas you want while keeping the rest of the image intact. It ships with native 2K resolution…
Anthropic brings Claude to civilian agencies as its fight with the Pentagon drags on
Anthropic is now offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies. The platform runs in a FedRAMP High environment, the strictest US…