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OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.
Read original →Apple is expanding its Broadcom partnership in a $30 billion-plus chipmaking agreement, its largest American manufacturing commitment to date.
Read original →Gold's rally is making bullion collateral, with central bank buying and demand reshaping markets and miners' funding.
Read original →Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead comes at a steep cost. In the Strategy & Ops Index, a single task runs $3.48 with Fable 5, more than a hundred times what DeepSeek V4 Pro charges at $0.03. The score difference is just 12 points. The article Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's "smartest voice model" yet. It will automatically pass your queries to its best text models, like GPT-5.5, when it needs to reason or search the web, allowing it to more quickly transition from researching the topic you've asked about to talking about its findings. The upgraded model will also supplement conv … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read original →The president was asked about the ceasefire after an escalation of fighting in the Middle East.
Read original →Rising lithium prices and robust demand lifted Chile's export revenue well above last year's pace despite only two producers.
Read original →Gmail's AI failed at a nuanced research task, but Claude Cowork found the right pitches, quotes, and permissions, proving connected AI assistants may finally help tackle some aspects of email overload.
Read original →Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.
Read original →Mike Khouw revisits his Rivian trade after the stock tanks on a share offering.
Read original →Industry body the World Gold Council reports that global investors have continued to reduce their exposure to physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in June, but inflows for the first half of the year remained positive. Global gold ETFs in assets under management (AUM) reached $526-billion at the end of June, with a 6% fall in the first half of the year, mainly owing to a lower gold price.
Read original →Google Deepmind is adding four new features to Managed Agents in the Gemini API. Agents can now run asynchronously in the background, connect directly to remote MCP servers, use custom functions alongside sandbox tools, and refresh credentials without losing state. The article Google Deepmind adds background execution and MCP support to Gemini API managed agents appeared first on The Decoder.
Read original →For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its cryptocurrency investment roots. This fund is expected to expand its investment focus to include robotics and AI.
Read original →U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the U.S. needs to control Greenland “for the protection of the world."
Read original →TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines has reported that Kamoa-Kakula, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, produced 64 328 t of copper in the second quarter of this year, while improved mining rates and destocking of copper inventories are set to significantly boost copper production for the second half of the year. During the second quarter, the Phase 1, 2, and 3 concentrators milled 2.97-million tonnes of ore, producing 61 134 t of copper in concentrate.
Read original →Chinese AI startup MiniMax is developing a 2.7 trillion parameter large language model planned for open-source release later in 2026. Open-sourcing frontier-scale models increases competition in LLM development and may accelerate capability parity among non-Western AI developers.
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