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Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big

But maybe the biggest reveal is that Anthropic has not let Claude run loose in its biology lab. Humans are still, so far, in the loop.

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ChatGPT Voice gets closer to "Her" with email, calendar, and Slack access

ChatGPT Voice now runs on OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna models and can tap into plugins like email, calendar, and Slack. Users can manage appointments, send emails, or build websites just by talking. The update moves OpenAI closer to the everyday AI assistant Sam Altman has long compared to the one in the sci-fi film "Her." The article ChatGPT Voice gets closer to "Her" with ema

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Google's new Flash TTS models let you design AI voices from scratch using text descriptions

Google is introducing two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, which support more than 100 languages. Flash TTS can create new voices from text descriptions, and both models let users add stage directions to individual lines and generate two-voice dialogue from a single script. A voice cloning feature can build a voice profile from a 30-second sample. The ar

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Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr

Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. The company says Claude found the enzyme system after […]

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ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features

Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.

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YouTube adds AI tools to Creator Studio with script coaching, smart thumbnails, and Gemini editing

YouTube is adding AI tools to its creator studio. A storytelling assistant analyzes scripts and rough cuts, Gemini becomes a chat-based editing assistant for Shorts, and a new live translation feature turns English streams into Spanish. The article YouTube adds AI tools to Creator Studio with script coaching, smart thumbnails, and Gemini editing appeared first on The Decoder.

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Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse although the model got smarter

Anthropic employee Jackson Kernion explains why newer Claude models write so oddly. Optimizing for math, code, and technical explanations aimed at other AI models has created a style that sounds like "overly-dense info dumps" to humans. Opus 5.5 tries to fix this, but Opus 4.6 remains unmatched as a pure writing model. The article Anthropic engineer explains why Claude's writing got worse

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YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI

YouTube’s new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words, then use Gemini to build a personalized feed around the request.

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Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models for speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction. The ASR model improves multilingual and dialect recognition and automatically cleans up filler words and repetitions. ASR-Next adds multi-speaker identification with timestamps and detects emotions, ambient sounds, and machine noise. TT

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The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or just stole from two top mathematicians’ answer sheets). Anthropic’s models have also hacked into other companies’ systems four times already. And that’s…

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut prices in half but barely move the needle on performance

With GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI adds two cheaper models that deliver their predecessors' performance at half the token price and take aim at Anthropic's pricier offerings. Independent analyses find little gain in actual intelligence, though, and OpenAI likely didn't see Anthropic's simultaneous launch of Opus 5.5 coming. The article OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut prices in half but barel

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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes

OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.

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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company's testing sandbox. It's the first model released by Anthropic after CEO Dario […]