Google has made Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash generally available, expanding its AI video model with native clips of up to 15 seconds, conversational editing, and lower pricing. The company says the model costs $0.07 per second for 720p video, a 30% reduction from Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. The new version supports videos from three to …
OpenAI has released Images 2.6, an image generation update for ChatGPT, Codex, and its API that adds GIF creation, faster generation, and more controls for editing images. The company says the model produces images 50 percent faster than its previous version and is available globally across ChatGPT subscription tiers. The most visible addition is native …
Mistral has released the weights for Mistral Large 4, its trillion-parameter multimodal model also known as “Le Chonk.” The move lets organizations download, run, adapt, and fine-tune the model on their own infrastructure instead of relying solely on a hosted API. In an official blog post, Mistral says the model is available under its Ecosystem …
Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open weight AI model that combines multilingual transcription, translation, speaker labeling, and audio question answering in one system. Kyt Dotson reports for SiliconANGLE that the company is also releasing Granary v2, an open source speech dataset and data pipeline intended to help developers adapt the model. The model …
OpenAI and Anthropic have cut prices for several major language models by as much as 80% within months, as competition from each other and from open-weight models puts pressure on the market. Max Woolf writes for Max Woolf’s Blog that the speed and scale of the reductions point to more than a routine product update. …
Amazon’s Bee Frontier is a $75 AI wearable designed to listen to conversations, generate summaries, and suggest follow-up tasks through a companion app. M.G. Siegler writes for Spyglass that the device performs these basic functions more effectively than he expected, while also raising significant privacy concerns. The small device has a single physical button and …
Anthropic is donating its Agent Skills open standard to the Agentic AI Foundation, placing its future development under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Anthropic announces in an official blog post that more than 70 agent platforms, including ChatGPT, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Visual Studio Code, have integrated the standard. Agent Skills is designed to give AI …
US media, film, publishing, and arts industries have lost more than 200,000 jobs over the past four years, including about 50,000 in the past year, according to an analysis of employment trends. The decline comes without a broad recession, raising new questions about whether generative AI is intensifying an already difficult transition for creative businesses. …
Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are expanding their efforts to find and remove AI-generated material that violates the encyclopedia’s rules. The work now extends beyond obvious chatbot phrases to misleading citations and subtler writing patterns. Eliza Strickland reports for IEEE Spectrum that the WikiProject AI Cleanup began after editors noticed articles filled with repeated, unnatural language and …
Google has added a privacy-policy exception that allows data from Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos to inform personalized advertising when users choose to make that data available to certain Google services. The change applies to people who connect these services to Google Search, Gemini Apps, or other tools through Personal Intelligence. The feature lets …