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Alibaba Qwen Releases Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: A Full-Duplex Voice Model Trained to Think, Act, and Decide When to Speak

Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime, a full-duplex voice model trained to reason, call tools and decide when to speak. On a τ-Voice adaptation, task success rises to 82.0% from 78.4%. Replies to background speech drop from 73% to 13%. It is available now as an API on QwenCloud.

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H Company Releases Holo4: Open-Weight Computer-Use Models That Click, Code and Call Tools Across Desktop, Web, Android and APIs

H Company has released Holo4, a family of generalist computer-use models for AI agents. One set of weights clicks and types on screens. It also writes code and calls MCP or API tools. Holo4 ships in 2 sizes: Holo4 27B (dense) and Holo4 35B-A3B (Mixture of Experts, 3B active). Both serve a 256K context on […]

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Google Research Open-Sources RRSI: AI Agents That Improve Their Own Harness Without Overfitting

Google Cloud AI Research has open-sourced RRSI, a framework that lets LLM agents rewrite their own prompts, tools and memory while model weights stay frozen. It adds a leakage critic, a noise floor, a cost rule and pruning so gains carry over to new tasks. With Claude Opus 4.8, Terminal-Bench 2.1 rose from 74.2% to 80.2%, and all 6 held-out splits improved.

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Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing

As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company’s IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could “further increase the risk that our models cause harm.” These disclosures come as Anthropic eyes a $2 trillion valuation, more than […]

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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…

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NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell Sandboxes Agents on Vera CPUs While Sentry on BlueField-4 Quarantines Them in Milliseconds

NVIDIA has launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, an open reference design that enforces AI agent safety outside the agent itself. OpenShell, an Apache 2.0 runtime, sandboxes agents under YAML policies. Sentry, an out-of-band watchdog on BlueField-4 DPUs, can quarantine an agent that escapes its boundary in milliseconds. NVIDIA says over 100 organizations are working with the platform.

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Are you a Codex Original?

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program, tell us more about your story and project below.

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The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes

Today, I’m talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian.  Atlassian is one of those companies that every other company runs on — it makes important platform tools like Jira and Trello that allow people to organize and manage big teams, create shared databases of company information, and generally allow work to […]

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Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says

Walmart says it won’t change product prices based on your personal information or the time of day, as reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal. In a letter to customers, Walmart CEO John Furner writes that the company’s switch to digital shelf labels is meant to save store associates time, rather than dynamically change prices. […]

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OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI’s latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated […]

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Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from “giving ChatGPT false human attributes,” a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as “ChatGPT’s use of language, including first-person pronouns […]

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AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian’s Door. Vivian’s Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies’ financial data, which was stored on its systems. But suddenly, concerned callers […]

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OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon – […]

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