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Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation

The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.

Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock

GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently.

How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation

Algorithms & Theory

Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents

OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.

OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite

OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.

AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience

Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps, and ongoing tasks.

OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar

Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.

OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plug-ins with app-like interfaces and automations

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.

OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices

OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparing fixes.

Can a chatbot fix the government maze? The White House is about to find out

America.gov is intended to simplify the process of navigating government bureaucracy, but large language models are imperfect and remain prone to hallucinations, which could cause new issues.

Prompt engineering fundamentals for Amazon Quick

Prompt engineering in Amazon Quick shapes how accurately its AI-powered features respond to your requests. Part 1 of a two-part series covers the foundational principles and reusable frameworks (specificity, context-setting, few-shot examples, and the CRISPE framework) for consistent, high-quality results across Amazon Quick.

Prompt engineering by Quick component: Patterns and pitfalls

Part 2 of our Amazon Quick prompt engineering series goes component by component. Learn the prompt patterns that get the best results from Amazon Quick Research, Quick Flows, Quick Sight, chat agents, and action integrations, plus the common pitfalls to avoid.

Building an AI-powered contract intelligence platform with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Manually extracting data from hundreds of vendor contracts doesn't scale, and RAG chat tools fall short on portfolio-wide questions. This post shares a contract intelligence platform on AWS that uses AI agents to extract and verify contract fields, then answers aggregate and single-contract questions through Amazon Quick analytics.

Korean AI Lab Upstage releases Solar Mini 4