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Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for voice agents
Google DeepMind’s new speech-to-speech models top independent voice-AI benchmarks while running tools in the background mid-conversation.
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A Robot Ditched Its Safety Cage This Week. A Doom Prediction Didn’t Survive One Fact-Check.
Digit 5 works fence-free, Microsoft wrote its AI models a 37-page rulebook, and security pros quietly…
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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei calls for the AI industry to deliberately slow capability gains, with OpenAI and xAI signaling agreement
Amodei’s essay proposes embedded outside evaluators and industry-wide pacing; Altman and Musk publicly endorsed it within…
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Three Rival AI CEOs Agreed to Slow Down. A Tweet Still Turned It Into a 10% Extinction Countdown.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI’s bosses agreed on AI safety pacing this week. A viral tweet turned…
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OpenAI Brings Its Full-Duplex Voice Model GPT-Live-1 to the API
OpenAI opened API access to GPT-Live-1, a voice model that listens and talks at once, priced…
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OpenAI opens public beta of its Agents API, exposing the Codex harness to all developers
OpenAI’s new Agents API lets any developer build long-running cloud agents using the same harness that…
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Anthropic’s September 2026 threat report details Claude misuse in espionage, bioweapons research, and cyberattacks
Anthropic’s fourth threat intelligence report documents disrupted Claude misuse in state-linked hacking, bioweapons research, and drone…
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An AI Now Tames Plasma Hotter Than the Sun in 20 Milliseconds. A CEO Still Promised to Cure Disease in Five Years.
Real fusion breakthroughs, real chip money, and real jobs data this week — plus the usual…
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Attention Check: What a Viral ‘AI Could Kill Everyone’ Resignation Post Actually Said
A resignation post about hypothetical future AI got read as an extinction alarm. Here’s what the…
