ChatGPT Ads Reach 89 Countries as OpenAI Adds Nigeria and South Africa
OpenAI has added 26 countries to ChatGPT Ads, including Nigeria and South Africa, and says more than 100,000 advertisers have run campaigns. Only 11 of the new markets are named.
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AWS Trainium Model Support: Hugging Face's New Lookup Shows Which Hub Models Run on Trainium2
Hugging Face's AWS Trainium model support tracker shows which popular Hub models run unmodified on Trainium2, with cores, memory and time for each test run.
Granite Speech 5.0 Explained: IBM's Free Speech-to-Text Models, What They Do and Who Can Use Them
Granite Speech 5.0 is IBM's free, open speech model: transcription in six languages, fast on-device recognition and better meeting notes. What it does, and lacks.
Phonon TTS Explained: Gradium's Free Voice Model Runs on a Phone, a Laptop or a Raspberry Pi
Phonon TTS is a free text-to-speech model from Paris startup Gradium that runs offline on phones, laptops and a Raspberry Pi. What it does and how to try it.
Block's Dessa Speech Model Learned to Talk From Sound Alone: What It Does and Who Can Use It
Block's Dessa speech model learned to talk from sound alone, with no text. Here is what the research preview does, who built it and who can use it now.
Kimi K3.1 Pro Launches With a 1M-Token Context and Open Weights Due 4 November: Benchmarks, Access and Caveats
Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, beating GPT-6 Astra on Moonshot's numbers. Here is how to use it now and what the open weights mean.
Agentic AI Foundation Adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox: What Each One Does for Builders
The Agentic AI Foundation takes in four projects from Anthropic, OpenAI, Hugging Face and Alibaba. Here is what each does and why it matters if you build agents.
Microsoft AI Diagnosis Study: MAI-DxO Beat Doctors 83% to 36% on Hard Cases. What It Does and Doesn't Prove
Microsoft AI diagnosis tool MAI-DxO solved 83% of hard cases versus 36% for doctors working alone. Here is how it works, the catches, and what comes next.
OpenAI Decisions API Explained: Fast Yes-or-No AI Calls at $0.10 per Million Tokens
The OpenAI Decisions API is now open to all developers. It answers bounded questions up to 10x faster than GPT-6 Luna and charges nothing for output tokens.
Canva Craft Explained: What Canva's First Image Model Does, Where to Find It and What It Means for Designers
Canva Craft is Canva's first in-house image model: 2K images, 30 aspect ratios, readable text and layered edits, free in Dream Lab and via the Canva API.
1Password for Agents Explained: How AI Assistants Can Log In Without Ever Seeing Your Password
1Password for Agents lets Claude Duet, ChatGPT Work, Muse and Grok Bot sign in for you after you approve, with the password never shown to the AI agent.
Uber ChatGPT Work Rollout: All 30,000 Staff Get OpenAI's Agent After a 1,000-Person Pilot
Uber ChatGPT Work rollout: all 30,000 Uber staff now get OpenAI's workplace agent after a 1,000-person pilot in which 80% of early users were not engineers.
Nirva AI Pendant: The $249 Wearable That Only Listens to Its Owner, and What It Does With Your Voice
The Nirva AI pendant records only its wearer's voice and turns it into insights. Price, battery, privacy defaults and the $33m behind it, explained.
AI Shopping Agents Get a Front Door at Walmart While Amazon Keeps Them Out
Walmart's Agent Gateway lets approved AI shopping agents search and buy for you, with spending limits and separate profiles, while Amazon keeps agents blocked.
OnStar AI Assistant: What GM's New In-Car AI Does, When It Arrives and What It Means for Privacy
GM is turning OnStar into an AI assistant. Here is what the OnStar AI Assistant does, when it reaches cars and phones, and what GM says about your privacy.