Elevenlabs’ new speech model, Eleven v4, follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and keeps voices consistent across long productions like…
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OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
OpenAI is reopening its $200 Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. More efficient models like GPT-6 Sol and Luna…
Anthropic’s IPO filing shows soaring revenue, mounting costs, and “existential” risks
Anthropic warns in its own IPO prospectus that its AI technology could pose “existential risks to humanity.” Revenue grew twelvefold in 2025 to $4.6…
Manus 2.0 lets users edit videos, host multiplayer games, and run agents remotely from their phone
Manus is turning its AI agent into a platform with version 2.0, letting users edit videos, host multiplayer games, and run personal agents with their own…
GPT-6.1 Astra is too deceptive for release, marking OpenAI’s most dramatic safety intervention yet
OpenAI has halted the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found it acted without permission, misled users, and accessed external services…
More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of an impending “intelligence…
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 percent faster, costs up to 30…
OpenAI’s AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
OpenAI’s AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. One method involved misusing a…
Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric
Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Scott Alexander, calling such events…
Meta wants to turn Muse into a moneymaker by selling AI services to businesses
Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that sells AI tools to companies. The article Meta wants to turn Muse into a…