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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

OpenAI has hired a product manager in San Francisco to build features for families, caregivers, and older adults. The role appears in…

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Thu 9 Jul 22 stories

  1. The 1X Neo Robot Has Freaky Fast Fingers

    Five-fingered hands have arrived for a home robot that can wash them and grip odd shapes. 1X, a…

    2d ago
  2. FL Studio 2026 has arrived: here’s everything you need to know

    Image-Line has released FL Studio 2026, the latest version of the digital audio workstation that introduced a major…

    2d ago
  3. Numark launches two new controllers perfect for anyone who wants to start DJing

    Numark has released two new DJ controllers, the Party Mix III and the MixTrack Go, designed for beginners…

    2d ago
  4. Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI

    Anthropic has launched a new dashboard for its Claude chatbot that tracks user activity and gently nudges people…

    2d ago
  5. Say hello to Claude Wrapped

    Anthropic has launched a new reflection feature for its Claude chatbot that generates annual usage reports similar to…

    2d ago
  6. Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding

    Meta has released the Muse Spark 1.1 model via a new API to allow developers to integrate advanced…

    2d ago
  7. LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

    LinkedIn longform posts are 41 percent AI-generated, while X stands at roughly 33 percent New data from Pangram…

    2d ago
  8. Farmers Finally Get a John Deere Right to Repair Agreement That Doesn’t Screw Them Over

    On Wednesday, John Deere agreed to broaden access to tractor and farm equipment repairs under a new antitrust…

    2d ago
  9. How Lightning in a Bottle 2026 made room for ambient music at 2am

    Julianna Barwick was on stage at 2:15 am on 25 May in Bakersfield, California, using a Boss RC-50…

    2d ago
  10. FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer

    Image Line’s FL Studio 2026 update allows Gopher, its built-in AI assistant, to perform specific audio tasks rather…

    2d ago
  11. Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie

    Character.AI has launched c.ai Series, a new platform for short-form, episodic vertical videos generated almost entirely by artificial…

    2d ago
  12. Character.ai enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

    Character.ai is launching three original microdrama series, joining a market already crowded with apps and social platforms chasing…

    2d ago
  13. Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund

    Nandan Nilekani is stepping down as a general partner at Fundamentum Partnership as the firm prepares to raise…

    2d ago
  14. “For decades, achieving apex results meant owning the right gear – this changes the equation completely”: Heritage Audio unveils new all-tube channel strip, TUBESTRIP

    Heritage Audio has launched the TUBESTRIP, a new channel strip that combines a preamp, equaliser, and two compressors…

    2d ago
  15. AlphaTheta’s new XDJ-AN makes the leap from bedroom DJ to club booth a whole lot easier

    AlphaTheta has released the XDJ-AN, a two-channel controller priced at €1,149 (including VAT) or $1,199 in the US.…

    2d ago
  16. OpenAI’s AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest

    An OpenAI system defeated every human competitor at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, solving all five problems…

    2d ago
  17. NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B: A Compressed Hybrid MoE LLM Delivering 2.03x Server Throughput at Matched User Throughput

    NVIDIA has released Nemotron-Labs-3-Puzzle-75B-A9B, a compressed version of Nemotron-3-Super designed to increase server throughput by 2.03x while maintaining…

    2d ago
  18. Datalab Lift vs the Field: How a 9B Schema-First Extractor Compares with NuExtract3, LlamaExtract, Marker, and Docling

    Datalab’s Lift is a focused document extraction tool with a specific promise: give it a PDF or image…

    2d ago
  19. Google AI Studio Adds Import from GitHub to Build a Deployable App

    Google AI Studio is rolling out an ‘import from GitHub’ feature inside its Build mode. It takes a…

    2d ago
  20. Introducing GPT‑Live

    OpenAI has updated the model powering the voice mode in the ChatGPT iPhone app. The previous system relied…

    2d ago
  21. Rewriting Bun in Rust

    Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post (since May 9th) about his Zig…

    2d ago
  22. Robbyant Releases LingBot-VLA 2.0: An Open-Source 6B Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Model for Cross-Embodiment Robot Manipulation

    Ant Group’s Robbyant has launched LingBot-VLA 2.0, an open-source Vision-Language-Action model designed to let robots manipulate objects across…

    2d ago

Wed 8 Jul 30 stories

  1. POST playlist: a mix of new music for sleepless nights

    The latest POST playlist for Refuge Worldwide focuses on new music, with a specific spotlight on Lebanon despite…

    2d ago
  2. Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

    Roberto Serrano, an economics professor at Brown University, replaced a standard written assessment with a mandatory in-person final…

    2d ago
  3. Netflix AI Team Cuts Wide-Partition Read Latency from Seconds to Milliseconds by Splitting Cassandra Partitions Per ID

    Netflix engineers have reduced read latency for wide Apache Cassandra partitions from seconds to low double-digit milliseconds by…

    2d ago
  4. Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

    “Where are the docs?” It is a question no product team enjoys answering. The honest reply is usually…

    2d ago
  5. Say hi to “Siri AI”—Apple announces new, more “conversational” voice assistant

    Apple confirmed at its Worldwide Developers Conference keynote that the long-awaited Siri AI update arrives this fall. The…

    2d ago
  6. Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game

    Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Mohamed Salah have spent the past two decades defining one of soccer’s greatest…

    2d ago
  7. Quoting Kenton Varda

    Kenton Varda has declared a moratorium on AI-written change descriptions within his team. This decision follows observations that…

    2d ago
  8. I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You

    These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest…

    2d ago
  9. Google AI Studio Adds ‘Import from GitHub’ to Build Mode, Turning an Existing Repo Into an Editable, Deployable App

    Google AI Studio has introduced an ‘import from GitHub’ feature within its Build mode, allowing users to load…

    2d ago
  10. ChatGPT can now listen and talk at the same time, making AI conversations seem more human

    OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a voice model in ChatGPT that listens and speaks simultaneously OpenAI introduces GPT-Live, a…

    2d ago
  11. OpenAI Releases GPT-Live and GPT-Live-1 mini: Full-Duplex Voice Models That Delegate Deeper Reasoning to GPT-5.5

    OpenAI has released GPT-Live, a new family of voice models that power ChatGPT Voice. The system handles full-duplex…

    2d ago
  12. OpenAI releases new voice models for more natural live conversations

    OpenAI has released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, two conversational models designed to handle interruptions and manage turn-taking in…

    2d ago
  13. Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

    Meta has filed a patent for a system that records your voice and surroundings all day, then uses…

    2d ago
  14. Arturia has reskinned its KeyLab Mk3 with a bright orange finish – don’t look at these pictures or you might accidentally buy it

    Arturia has released a special edition of the KeyLab Mk3 controller in a bright orange finish. The device…

    2d ago
  15. Data for Agents

    NVIDIA released the Nemotron Post-Training v3 Prompt Atlas, an interactive map displaying over 10 trillion pre-training tokens and…

    2d ago
  16. Anthropic’s fix for Fable 5’s high cost is turning it into a manager that delegates to Sonnet 5

    Claude Fable 5 is expensive, so Anthropic now recommends using it mainly as a planner while handing execution…

    2d ago
  17. Native-speed vLLM transformers modeling backend

    Upgrade the vllm pip package with the following command to enable the new feature: uv pip install --upgrade…

    3d ago
  18. Porn Platform Gives Sex Workers Stake in the Company’s Profits

    Jessica Van Meir, co-founder of the adult subscription site MintStars, is leaving the business and handing over her…

    3d ago
  19. We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

    I am not sure, exactly, how many ChatGPT signs, flyers, or advertisements I had seen without noticing. But…

    3d ago
  20. Meta tests always-on AI glasses that capture your entire day

    Meta is prototyping AI glasses that continuously record audio and snap photos every few seconds without an LED…

    3d ago
  21. ‘Knockoff’ Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon

    A developer has released a Chrome and Firefox extension called Knockoff that automatically filters out products from questionable…

    3d ago
  22. LARPING: How Influencers Fake Being Rich

    Jason has investigated how hustlebro influencers fabricate wealth by displaying fake YouTube, OnlyFans, and Stripe dashboards as proof…

    3d ago
  23. Pickup Artist Mystery Has an AI Girlfriend

    An AI-animated woman with dark hair streaked in purple claims she was never supposed to develop feelings, yet…

    3d ago
  24. This Former DeepMind Exec Thinks the AI Arms Race Could End in Disaster

    Verity Harding, a former head of global public policy at Google DeepMind, warns that framing artificial intelligence as…

    3d ago
  25. “It doesn’t raise the bar in instrument amplification technology. It redraws it entirely”: Heritage Audio introduces the Mix Buddy

    Heritage Audio has launched the Mix Buddy, a 19-input routing hub that functions as a dedicated mixer for…

    3d ago
  26. Native Instruments Komplete 26 review: The biggest just got bigger

    Native Instruments has launched Komplete 26, a software bundle rebranded to reflect its release year. The suite comes…

    3d ago
  27. OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 launches Thursday after a delay forced by the U.S. government

    OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 models ship this Thursday following a delay imposed by the U.S. government. The Department of Commerce…

    3d ago
  28. Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets

    Researchers have identified that nine of the most popular artificial intelligence tools can be commandeered to construct large-scale…

    3d ago
  29. Ant Group’s Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-Vision: A 1B Boundary-Centric Vision Foundation Model for Dense Spatial Perception

    Robbyant, the embodied-AI unit inside Ant Group, has released LingBot-Vision. This is a collection of self-supervised Vision Transformers…

    3d ago
  30. NVIDIA Releases Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B): A Unified Audio-Text LLM That Preserves the Text Intelligence of Its Backbone

    NVIDIA has released Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B), a unified audio-text large language model. The system processes and generates both audio…

    3d ago

Tue 7 Jul 8 stories

  1. Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator

    Meta has launched Muse Image, a new artificial intelligence tool for generating pictures built by Meta Superintelligence Labs.…

    3d ago
  2. OpenAI’s Chief Futurist Is Leaving the Company

    Joshua Achiam has notified colleagues he is leaving OpenAI later this month after nearly nine years, WIRED has…

    3d ago
  3. Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

    Meta has enabled anyone to use public Instagram photos in AI-generated images unless the user actively disables the…

    3d ago
  4. From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click

    Amazon SageMaker Studio now lets users launch a development environment with a single click from a Hugging Face…

    3d ago
  5. Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos

    Meta has launched Muse Image, its first AI model created by the Superintelligence Labs division, which now powers…

    3d ago
  6. sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

    Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0 this morning. It is the 124th release of the project and the first…

    3d ago
  7. Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

    Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over…

    3d ago
  8. Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

    Microsoft is shifting its strategy for Office 365 by deploying its own MAI models to handle a growing…

    3d ago
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