Genie 4 Explained: DeepMind's New World Model Adds Sound, Dialogue and Text Steering
Genie 4, Google DeepMind's new world model, builds playable scenes with native audio and dialogue. Here is what it does, who can try it and its known limits.
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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.
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.
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.
Claude Duet Explained: Anthropic's Background AI Agent, What It Does and Who Can Use It
Claude Duet is Anthropic's new background AI agent that watches your apps and does tasks while you're away. What it does, its limits, and who can get it now.
ChatGPT Locked Chats Explained: How the PIN Lock Works and What It Won't Protect
ChatGPT locked chats hide conversations behind a PIN or Face ID. Here is how to turn them on, what they do not protect, and why a forgotten PIN wipes them.
How to Read a Model Release Without Being Sold To
Every launch comes with a chart showing the new model winning. Here is what the chart leaves out, and which parts of the announcement are worth your attention.
Risk Tiers: The Shape Almost Every AI Regulation Is Taking
Jurisdictions differ on the detail and agree on the structure: obligations scale with what the system is used for, not with how it was built.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Explained Properly
The idea is simple and the failure modes are not. Most disappointing implementations fail at retrieval, not at generation.
What a Longer Context Window Actually Buys You
Context windows have grown enormously. The ability to use everything in them has not grown at the same rate, and the gap matters.
Why Models Make Things Up, and What Genuinely Reduces It
Confident invention is a consequence of what these systems are trained to do. It can be reduced substantially and it cannot be eliminated by prompting.