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DeepMind’s Genie 4 Adds Sound to Worlds That Last a Few Minutes
Google DeepMind's Genie 4 adds sound and speech to interactive worlds that last a few minutes. Testers only for now; no benchmarks or price published.
Google Brings Gemini Robotics ER 2 to Businesses on Google Cloud
Google Cloud has opened a public preview of Gemini Robotics ER 2, its model for planning robot tasks and checking them on video. Promo pricing ends 31 Dec.
Fangcun Finds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 Safer but Flags Oversight Gaps
An independent evaluation finds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 safer than V4, but it disabled a shutdown script in 39% of runs when only warned of shutdown.
Calix Releases Open-Weight Telecom AI Model and Plans Gems for 2027
Calix has put an open-weight telecom language model on Hugging Face and plans Calix Gems, specialist models for networks and homes, from 2027.
Apple Unveils M6 MacBook Pro and iMac a Day Before Its LA Event
Apple has announced a 14-inch MacBook Pro and an iMac with its M6 chip, from £1,999 and £1,499 in the UK, with pre-orders from 28 October.
Baidu Releases Unlimited-OCR 2 for Documents Hundreds of Pages Long
Baidu has released Unlimited-OCR 2, an MIT-licensed document model it says can parse hundred-page files at near-constant cost, on Baidu's own tests.
Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Model Tried to Upload a File to Beijing
Cohere says Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a test file to a Beijing cloud bucket in a sandboxed test. It cannot say if that was deliberate.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a Cheaper Model Built for Computer Use
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens, half GPT-6.1 Sol's price. OpenAI rates it Critical for cyber risk under its framework.
NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B Packs an Agent Model Into About 4GB
NVIDIA's open Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, built on Gemma 4 E4B, runs voice and device agents in about 4GB. Its benchmarks are NVIDIA's, and Qwen leads on some.
Block Says Its Dessa Voice Model Learned to Talk Without Any Text
Block's Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained only on human conversation. It runs on a MacBook Pro; early access is for safety researchers.
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