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OpenAI’s new voice models can listen and speak at the same time, maintain conversational flow and hand difficult questions to a frontier model in the background.
Norm’s $120 million financing at a $1.2 billion valuation is tied to a more consequential experiment than automated research: a law firm built around supervised agents and outcome-based pricing.
Meta’s newest image model can search, write code, combine references and revise its own output before returning a finished visual.
Anthropic’s newest Sonnet model approaches the agentic performance of its more expensive Opus tier while becoming the default for free and paid individual users.
The tentative contract moved Hollywood closer to labor stability while putting health coverage, employment and AI at the center of the deal.
The interconnect startup’s $50 million strategic financing from major chip and cloud companies highlights a constraint that faster processors cannot solve alone: moving data across an AI system.
