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Oracle Puts Its First 3 Own-Built AI Media Models Into a US Beta
Oracle has opened a US-only beta of three video and image AI models it built itself and says were trained on rights-cleared data. No price yet.
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.
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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