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Three firings and a fourth departure shake up OpenAI's safety team

OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers who allegedly leaked confidential information to an outside AI safety ...
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AI beats licensed accountants on speed and accuracy, but still can't close the books without supervision

According to a Mercor study, current AI models now outperform licensed CPAs on structured accounting tasks in both speed and ...
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AI music generator Suno can now create spoken audio with matching background music

Suno is adding a feature called "Speech" to its AI music generator that creates spoken text with matching background music in a single audio track. The company says it's built for things like poems, ...
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Cloudflare says its new Clef model means humans no longer need to be in the loop for AI agents

With Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare is challenging TypeSafe AI's Jev decision model. Clef-flash delivers classifications in about 39 milliseconds, making it more than ten times faster than Jev. Both ...
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Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents

Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. Microsoft says it ranks first for accuracy on Artificial Analysis. The ...
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Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows

US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian.
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Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that "suffers perpetually"

Since fall 2025, Anthropic has quietly flown in dozens of religious thinkers to talk about whether Claude might be conscious. Co-founder Christopher Olah described the language model as potentially ...
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Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing that leaves the rest of your picture alone

Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3 Image, the image side of its Flux 3 model family. It supports multi-step edits without changing other parts of the image, lets users compose scenes with bounding ...