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GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates

OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe, two new speech recognition models available through its API. GPT Transcribe handles pre-recorded audio files, processing them about 34 times ...
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Anthropic's Opus 5 blows past Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the benchmark designed to measure real intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, nearly four times the previous record of 7.8 percent set by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (Max). The ARC Prize team attributes the lead ...
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Gregor Kobsik

Read full article about: ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio ByteDance shipped Seedance 2.5, a new version of its AI video model. It generates video and audio ...
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Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit ...
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Matthias Bastian

Read full article about: Google handed users the easiest possible tool for fake satellite imagery, then pulled it after two days Google said the images were labeled as AI-generated and weren't visible ...
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AI and society

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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Maximilian Schreiner

Taiwan's prosecutors have detained an Nvidia employee in connection with the alleged illegal export of Super Micro AI servers to China, according to Bloomberg and Reuters. The Keelung District ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: A security researcher built a self-spreading worm that hides inside Word docs and hijacks Microsoft Copilot A security researcher has shown how a prompt injection attack in ...
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Jonathan Kemper

Read full article about: GPT Transcribe improves on its predecessor but can't catch ElevenLabs, Google, or Mistral on error rates OpenAI has released GPT Transcribe ...
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German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German

Update from July 24, 2026: The consortium published version 3.0 of its pretraining report and documented a contamination incident that the community discovered in the disclosed training data after the ...
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Microsoft, Nvidia and Anthropic close 45 billion dollar deal

Microsoft, Nvidia, and Anthropic have unveiled a set of new strategic partnerships valued at 45 billion dollars.
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Anthropic's new data shows AI skill builds over time, and that could widen the inequality gap

The second Anthropic Economic Index analyzes how Claude usage is shifting across the economy. One key finding: the longer people use the AI model, the better their results get. That could widen ...