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Visit website →VibeVoice - Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
Microsoft has released VibeVoice, a family of voice AI models for long-form TTS and ASR.
How ChatGPT serves ads
Evidence has surfaced that ad units and tracking tokens are mixed into the ChatGPT response stream.
YC's Requests for Startups - Summer 2026
YC presented AI-driven startup ideas through its Summer 2026 RFS.
MiMo-V2.5 — Xiaomi's Open-Source Omni-Modal AI Model
Xiaomi has released MiMo-V2.5, which processes text, images, video, and audio in a unified way.
Who owns the code written by Claude Code?
This analyzes the criteria for recognizing copyright in AI-generated code, along with the risks around ownership and licensing.
Claude for Creative Work
Anthropic has unveiled Claude connectors for creative tools like Blender and Adobe.
OpenAI Models Come to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs
AWS and OpenAI have unveiled a collaboration integrating frontier models into Bedrock Managed Agents.
Reading Notes on the DeepSeek-V4 Paper - Roh Jeongseok
An analysis of DeepSeek-V4's architectural innovations, infrastructure optimizations, and the trial-and-error process during training.
Voice-Controlled React Component Built on OpenAI Realtime API
A React voice-control component built on top of the OpenAI Realtime API has been released.
Chrome Prompt API
Chrome has released an on-device Prompt API based on Gemini Nano as an origin trial.
Warp's Open-Source Shift and Agent-First Development Model Announcement
Warp has open-sourced its client and announced an 'agent-first' development model in which agents handle implementation.
Warp Open-Sources Its Terminal-Based Agentic Development Environment
Warp has released its terminal client code under AGPL-3.0.
NeoSQL - A DB Workbench Integrating ERD, SQL Editor, and Code Generation (+ AI MCP Support)
NeoSQL, a DB workbench that integrates ERD design, SQL editing, and code generation while supporting AI MCP, has been released.
Talkie, a 13B Vintage Language Model from 1930
A 13B vintage model called Talkie, trained on 260B tokens of pre-1931 English, has been released.
dirac-run/dirac
The open-source coding agent Dirac scored 65.2% on Terminal-Bench-2 and 8/8.
China Blocks Meta's Acquisition of AI Startup Manus
Chinese authorities have demanded that Meta withdraw its acquisition of AI agent startup Manus.
VibeVoice - Open-Source Frontier Voice AI Model
Microsoft released VibeVoice, unveiling a family of ASR, TTS, and real-time voice models.
Harness Engineering: The Era Where Designing the Working Environment Matters More Than the Model
The performance of AI agents is determined not by the model itself but by the 'Harness'—the system design surrounding it.
4TB of voice samples from 40,000 AI contractors leaked from Mercor
The Mercor leak exposed voice and ID data of more than 40,000 contractors.
GitHub Copilot switches to usage-based billing
Starting June 1, 2026, GitHub Copilot will move to usage-based billing based on AI Credits.