Mistral AI has introduced Voxtral 3, a family of speech recognition and speech generation models designed for real-time voice agents. In an official blog post, Mistral AI announces that the release also includes an SDK that combines transcription, reasoning, tool use, and spoken responses in one streaming system. The company is targeting uses such as …
Men and women in the United States now report using AI chatbots at nearly identical rates, ending a sizable adoption gap measured two years earlier. Monica Anderson and Eugenie Park write for Pew Research Center that 49% of men and 47% of women say they have used chatbots such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Microsoft …
Anthropic has opened a research preview for Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent designed to monitor work, complete assigned tasks, and alert users when decisions need their attention. The product is available through a waitlist to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the United States. Claude Duet is separate from the main Claude chat experience. …
Generative AI can speed up research, writing, coding, and everyday decisions. But a growing debate asks whether that convenience comes with a human cost: less patience with difficult work, weaker subject knowledge, and less confidence in independent judgment. A recent study involving 1,222 online participants adds experimental evidence to those concerns. Participants who used ChatGPT …
Inception has launched Mercury 3, a diffusion-based large language model that the company says can generate more than 1,000 tokens per second while matching or exceeding several speed-focused models from OpenAI and Anthropic on selected benchmarks. In an official blog post, Inception announces that Mercury 3 reaches 1,068 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs. The …
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights model for generating and editing images. The company positions it as a model that can bring high-end image workflows to consumer hardware, including laptops and PCs with smaller graphics cards. Black Forest Labs announces in an official blog post that the model supports …
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash, a new AI model designed for tasks that require software tools, web interfaces, and long sequences of actions. In an official blog post, MiniMax announces that the model is available through its API, M Plan subscription, and MiniMax Code development environment. The company positions M3.1 Flash as a model for …
Microsoft has unveiled MAI-Base-2, a mixture-of-experts foundation model with 2.8 trillion total parameters and 80 billion active parameters per token. Microsoft AI announces in an official blog post that the model is now moving into post-training, the stage where developers adapt a base model for tasks such as chat, reasoning, and instruction following. The company …
YouTube Music is introducing labels that show listeners when generative AI has helped create a song. The information appears on a track’s player page and explains whether AI contributed to composition, vocals, or other parts of production. Lauren Forristal reports for TechCrunch that the labels will also appear in YouTube’s main app. The platform uses …
Krea has introduced Krea 3, an image editing model that the company says generates native 2K edits in under eight seconds. The Krea Team announces in an official Krea blog post that the model costs $0.06 per 2K image and $0.03 at 1K resolution. The release targets a common production problem for marketing, e-commerce, film, …