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Research Digest

OpenAI Says Its AI Disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Experts Are Now Checking

OpenAI says its AI disproved the 27-year-old Exponential Time Hypothesis and that the result checks out in Lean. Experts at UC San Diego and MIT are now verifying it. Here is what it means and what is unproven.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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Tools & Applications

GPT-6.1 Terra Explained: OpenAI's $1 Model That Claims to Match Its Flagship

OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Terra costs $1 per million input tokens and claims to match its flagship on one benchmark at a tenth of the price. Here are the claims, the pricing and a reality check.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Reportedly Discounting Hard to Win Anthropic's Biggest Customers: What Is Verified

Reports say OpenAI is discounting heavily to win Anthropic's biggest customers. The 90% headline is one customer's cost cut, not a price list. Here is what is verified and what developers should do.

29 Oct 2026 3 min read

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AI News

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.

28 Oct 2026 5 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Models Are Coming to Google Cloud: What Is Confirmed and What Is Not

OpenAI's frontier models and Codex workflows are heading to Google Cloud's Model Garden, bought through Marketplace. It is a private preview for now, with general availability promised in the coming weeks.

27 Oct 2026 2 min read

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Tools & Applications

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.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

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.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI News

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.

24 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI News

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.

23 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

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.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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AI News

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.

23 Oct 2026 4 min read

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Tools & Applications

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.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Tools & Applications

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.

23 Oct 2026 5 min read

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Tools & Applications

Recursive Flint: The Free Coding Model That Runs on a Laptop, and Was Mostly Built by AI

Recursive Flint is a free, Apache 2.0 coding model that runs offline on a laptop. What it does, how fast it is, its limits, and what it means for developers.

22 Oct 2026 4 min read

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AI & Business

OpenAI Models on Google Cloud: What Changes for Developers and Businesses

OpenAI models on Google Cloud arrive in Model Garden within weeks, with Codex and existing spend commitments. Here is what builders and IT buyers should know.

21 Oct 2026 5 min read

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