Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.
Claude’s new voice mode isn’t chasing natural. It’s chasing your to-do list.

Anthropic wants you to talk to Claude, and then watch it act. On Thursday it upgraded Claude’s voice mode to run on its most capable models, Opus and Sonnet, the company announced. Voice mode launched last year, and until now it ran only on Haiku, Anth…

Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence

Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave…

‘Science fiction that happened’: experts explain why OpenAI’s ‘mind-blowing’ cyberattack should worry us all
‘Science fiction that happened’: experts explain why OpenAI’s ‘mind-blowing’ cyberattack should worry us all

This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace.

A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.
A Chinese model split Silicon Valley. Now the startups are fighting back.

Silicon Valley does not usually gang up on its own. This week it did. Nearly 200 US startups have urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models. A ban, they warn, would gut the next wave of US companies. T…

A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.
A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, …

OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

A Florida pastor asked ChatGPT if he was okay. It nearly got him killed.

A Florida pastor is suing OpenAI after ChatGPT dismissed his symptoms as harmless for weeks, he later suffered a near-fatal blood clot doctors blame on the bot’s advice.

ChatGPT can now connect to your Apple Health data to give more personalized health answers

OpenAI has launched Health in ChatGPT, allowing U.S. users to connect Apple Health and supported medical records for more personalized health conversations.

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.