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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS—more expressive audio models for custom character voices and scene dialogue across AI Studio, the Gemini API, Enterprise, Notebook, and Vids.
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Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, independent third-party assessments of frontier models and safeguards—including access models, scope, and public reporting expectations.
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Unreal Labs introduces Unreal Agent, an agent harness claiming up to 40% cost savings versus Codex on production workloads and coding/science benchmarks, with details on architecture and evaluation.
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OpenAI introduces GPT-6.1 Sol, positioning it as near-Astra intelligence at a fraction of the price, with notes on capabilities, availability, and how it fits the GPT-6.1 family.
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Unauthenticated path traversal in page-template resolution leading to conditional RCE
WordPress discloses an unauthenticated path-traversal flaw in page-template resolution that can lead to conditional remote code execution, with advisory details, affected versions, and remediation guidance.
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Introducing DigitalOcean Managed AgentsOne AI-native stack to power your intelligence
DigitalOcean opens Managed Agents to public preview: Harness Runtime for isolated cloud agent sessions that pause/resume in ~300ms, Action Gateway for 16,000+ tools, and usage-based CPU billing without DIY infrastructure.
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SpaceXAI announces Grok 4.7: what is new in the model release, where it improves, and how to access it—from the official x.ai news post.
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JetBrains Air: Building a System of Products for Agentic Software Development
Kirill Skrygan introduces JetBrains Air: a system of products for agentic software development that treats organizational correctness—not just code generation—as the hard problem after six months of public experiments.
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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
FoxDev Studio rebuilds Visual FoxPro as a modern 64-bit runtime and IDE in Rust/WebAssembly: open old projects in place, keep .dbf data, bridge 32-bit libraries, and add FoxScript lambdas and HTTP routes.
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Drop: A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
Drop is a rootless Linux sandbox aimed at isolating coding agents and third-party programs, with OS-level permissions, optional gVisor support, and a workflow that stays close to a normal shell.
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Waymo announces a Bay Area transit rewards program that pays Waymo Cash when riders connect autonomous trips with public transit using tap-to-pay Visa cards, starting with employees before a public rollout.
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MiMo-V2.6: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improvement
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash after large-scale live RL (~$3.5M, 750k trajectories), claiming top open-weight AA Index scores, agent parity with frontier models, and 7k+ RL environments.
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Halo: Frontier-Lab Training for Everyone
White Circle open-sources Halo, a Hugging Face–native training framework claiming up to ~2.8× faster post-training than stock TRL with lower memory use—from single GPU to multi-node, keeping checkpoints in native HF format.
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Rainmaker Raises $100M Series B to Scale Low-Cost Water Production and Weather Modification
Rainmaker Technology announced a $100 million Series B to expand atmospheric research and scale drone-based cloud seeding for freshwater production. The company says its radar and validation systems have linked operations to more than 145 million verified gallons of freshwater.
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Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs
Anthropic proposes public metrics for the pace of frontier AI development so outsiders can see what is happening inside labs—beyond marketing and model cards.
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Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost
Arron Bailiss introduces Strands harness: a fully assembled, customizable local/cloud agent that aims for Claude Code/Codex-like “it just works” behavior with about 28% lower token cost.
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Announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Nine leading mathematicians announce an independent IAS-hosted advisory group to counsel AI labs on releasing math results—starting with OpenAI’s claim of 100+ solved open problems—and invite community input.
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Python Workers are now generally available
Cloudflare announces Python Workers GA: run Python on the Workers runtime with packages and frameworks that just work, two years after the first preview.
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Pirate Face: The permanence layer for sovereign AI
Pirate Face mirrors open AI models from Hugging Face as checksum-verified torrents—magnet links meant to keep LLMs, image/audio models, and datasets alive peer-to-peer without a single owner or takedown point.
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USRA Contributes Planetary Science Expertise to NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model
USRA describes an open-source NASA–IBM lunar foundation model that fuses diverse Moon datasets to support scientific analysis, including ice-prospectivity patterns near the poles.
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