GPT‑5.6 is here and promises frontier power at a fraction of the cost

OpenAI announces in an official blog post that GPT‑5.6 is now generally available, following the limited preview it launched several weeks earlier. The family consists of three tiers: the flagship model Sol, the balanced option for everyday work Terra; and the most cost-efficient version Luna. According to OpenAI, all three models outperform rivals such as …

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OpenAI replaces Advanced Voice Mode with full-duplex GPT-Live

OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models designed to make conversations with ChatGPT feel more human. The company announces in an official blog post that GPT-Live replaces Advanced Voice Mode and rolls out globally on iOS, Android, and ChatGPT.com. The core innovation is a full-duplex architecture. Unlike previous systems, which waited for …

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Rowboat brings a local-first AI coworker to the desktop

A new open-source tool called Rowboat wants to turn AI assistants into a full workspace rather than just a chat window. The developer, posting under the handle segmenta, introduces the project in a Show HN post on Hacker News, describing it as a local-first alternative to Claude Desktop. The team behind Rowboat previously built AI …

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Claude Cowork goes mobile and Anthropic has new insights into its usage

Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile devices and the web, the company announced in an official blog post. The tool, previously limited to the desktop app, now lets users start a task on a laptop, check progress on a phone, and retrieve finished work from any browser. Beta access begins …

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Why tiny AI models could outperform giant chatbots

In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Adebayo Alonge faced a technical failure during a product demo in Cape Town: his AI-powered pill scanner needed to reach a data center 14,000 kilometers away, and the connection was far too slow. David Berreby reports for IEEE Spectrum that this incident pushed Alonge to shrink his AI model within hours …

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Emily M. Bender explains why “stochastic parrots” was never meant as an insult

Emily M. Bender, professor of computational linguistics at the University of Washington, is pushing back against widespread misreadings of her 2021 paper “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots.” Gwendolyn Rak reports for IEEE Spectrum that Bender used the paper’s five-year anniversary to clarify what the term actually describes. Not all of AI, and not an …

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Anthropic finds a “silent workspace” inside Claude

Anthropic announces in an official blog post that its Claude models have developed a small, distinct set of internal patterns that function differently from the rest of the network’s processing. The company calls this the “J-space”, named after the Jacobian lens, a new technique used to detect it. Each pattern in the J-space corresponds to …

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Half the size, no legal fine print: Tencent’s Hy3 challenges GLM-5.2

Tencent has released the full version of its Hy3 language model under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, removing regional restrictions that previously excluded the European Union, the United Kingdom and South Korea. Sam Witteveen reports for VentureBeat that the license reversal, more than the model’s capabilities, drove the strongest reaction from the open-model community. Hy3 …

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Why AI adoption fails to deliver business value

Companies pour billions into artificial intelligence, yet most fail to turn that investment into measurable business value. Colleen Jones writes for Content Science Review that this disconnect, which she calls the “AI strategy gap,” separates organizations that merely adopt AI tools from those that transform how they create value. The numbers support her argument. MIT …

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