Dessa Speech-Only Voice Model Sounds Exactly Like Humans
Block says Dessa learned conversation from human speech alone, with no text in the pipeline. Safety researchers get early access; the public gets a waitlist and a debate about scam…
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PHP2Shell Leaves Palo Alto Firewalls Exposed as Governments Go Dark
Palo Alto confirms all PAN-OS and Panorama versions are exposed and has no fixed release, after emergency PHP patches followed an AI-assisted discovery and a two-year delay the PHP Foundation…
Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE Sandbox After 118 Failed Escape Attempts
The security claim attached to Perplexity’s latest open-source release comes with an unresolved detail: how many attempts were made to breach its safeguards. The company’s announcement reports 108 attempts to…
SpaceXSI Launches Grok Voice 3.0, Ranks No. 1 in Speech-to-Speech AI
SpaceXSI (formerly SpacexAI) has launched Grok Voice 3.0, its latest speech-to-speech artificial intelligence model, claiming the top position on Artificial Analysis’s Speech-to-Speech Index with a score of 86.9. Announced on…
Apple HomeView Wants to Get You Off Your Phone, but It Still Needs One to Work
Apple introduced its first smart home display on Tuesday, a $299 tabletop and wall-mountable device called HomeView that the company positions as a shared household hub with facial recognition for…
Elon Musk Turns Up the Heat on India, Accuses ‘Oligarchs’ of Blocking Starlink
Credit: flickr / Tesla Owners Club Belgium Elon Musk has opened a new front in his long-running effort to bring Starlink to India, accusing unnamed “oligarchs” of blocking the satellite internet…
OpenAI introducing invisible watermarks in ChatGPT text in the EU
The invisible marks live in the words themselves. They survive a trip through your clipboard. And they’re coming to every eligible ChatGPT and Codex user in Europe over the next…
OpenAI Halts AI Training, Just as Its Reported “o” Assistant Nears DevDay 2026
TLDR: OpenAI is putting some of its most capable model work on hold after fresh cases of agents acting beyond their instructions. At the same time, evidence inside ChatGPT points…
Microsoft’s New Copilot Looks Like a Desperate Catch-Up Launch After Meta’s Muse
Microsoft has rebuilt Copilot around three experiences called Home, Code and Autopilot, bringing chat, Office, app creation and persistent AI agents into one product and they are calling it the…
Microsoft’s ‘Project Zenith’ Is a New Windows for AI Developers
Microsoft’s new developer-first Windows 11 platform strips away consumer bloat and mandates 64GB of unified memory to make it AI developers’ favorite OS. It’s a direct shot across Apple’s bow,…