Madison Mills

OpenAI is rolling out a new generation of voice models for ChatGPT, aiming to make conversations with its AI sound more natural while routing these queries to its best models. OpenAI says its smartest voice models yet, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, make conversations feel more human by allowing users to interrupt naturally and pause speech without the model cutting them off. The voice models will now route queries to OpenAI's latest frontier text models, addressing what executives acknowledge has been a limitation for users.

Anthropic said that it has identified a small internal workspace Claude uses to hold and manipulate ideas without putting them into word

The AI executives who loudly warned about mass job loss may have been wrong, said Zynga founder Mark Pincus. Several leading voices in Silicon Valley, including AI CEOs themselves, have softened their stance on AI-driven job loss. The softening rhetoric comes just before OpenAI and Anthropic are rumored to go public and also amid a surge in AI hate from consumers. Pincus said he doesn't buy "the doom and gloom that all the jobs are going to go away," mirroring the tone shift from AI's loudest evangelists.

The pro-AI movement is splintering over a defining question: whether national security concerns outweigh the need to keep America's AI companies ahead of Chinese rivals. David Sacks—President Trump's former AI and crypto czar—warned that restricting access to America's most advanced AI models risks undercutting the strategy President Trump laid out just a year ago.

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If artificial intelligence (AI) were a candidate for political office, it would be losing in a landslide. The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates, and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment. AI executives aren't doing much to quell the backlash, which is already showing signs of slowing the industry.

The AI industry has entered an era of perpetual upheaval where market leaders are crowned—and dethroned—every few months. As AI changes everything, keeping up with who's dominant and who's falling behind

IT budgets are getting blown out as some companies increasingly spend more on AI than on employees' salaries. "For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees," said Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia.

Google will invest $10 billion in Anthropic, with the potential for an additional $30 billion—days after Amazon announced its own massive investment. G

OpenAI is mobilizing consulting partners and touting its compute edge to claw back enterprise customers from Anthropic, as both labs barrel toward potential initial public offerings. OpenAI and Anthropic are competing on everything from compute to enterprise adoption to model quality as both labs race toward