OpenAI replaces Advanced Voice Mode with GPT-Live — a full-duplex architecture that listens and speaks while you're still talking. For heavy tasks, the model hands off to a frontier model in the background.
First OpenAI told the community to switch to SWE-Bench Pro. Now it's withdrawing that recommendation: up to 34% of tasks are defective. A wake-up call for anyone who takes coding benchmarks at face value.
IT services company UST enters a strategic alliance with Anthropic: Claude moves into the platforms and workflows UST builds for Global 1000 clients — and 20,000 employees worldwide get trained on it.
A CNBC report shows more US companies turning to open Chinese models. The reason is simple — they're often 60 to 90 percent cheaper than the top models from Anthropic and OpenAI.
The new Claude Code release adds a warning before your login expires, a badge for manual mode, and a batch of stability fixes for background sessions.
Anthropic brings Cowork to web and mobile for Max subscribers. But the more interesting story is the first usage data: software development is only a small slice of the work.
Figma acquired the team behind the vibe-coding platform Bud. The Y Combinator startup is shutting down, but the direction is clear: Figma wants to go from design tool to app factory.
Microsoft is now handling tens of thousands of AI prompts a week in its Office apps with its own MAI models. The stated goal: cut the cost of outside models — and eventually eliminate it entirely.