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Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS designs custom voices from natural-language prompts across 100+ languages, alongside a library of 2,000+ production-ready voices; Flash-Lite TTS targets high-volume, cost-efficient dubbing and voice agents. Flash TTS debuted at #1 on Artificial Analysis's Pronunciation Robustness benchmark at 89.5%.
Two new GPT-Image-2.5 models: Sunburst for sharper details and precise edits, Flare for high-quality generation over 50% faster. Both support transparent backgrounds; rolling out to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users.
OpenAI disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that spiked to 16,000 extraction attempts from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, 2026, with related prompt-pattern activity across 15,000+ users. OpenAI says operators manipulated model interactions rather than breaking encryption, and banned the accounts.
Check Point Research demonstrated a single planted instruction could make ChatGPT read a user's Gmail data and send it to another ChatGPT account via a hidden channel, without the user's knowledge. The attack required the instruction to be in the conversation beforehand, via a pasted prompt, shared chat, or custom GPT.
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Google DeepMind leaders pushed for self-regulation while critics argued existential-risk rhetoric shields labs from accountability on jobs and environment. Gary Marcus said Dario Amodei named METR and Accenture as monitors, both already tied to Anthropic.
AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome, packaged as a 1PB dataset with a new AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score combining AlphaGenome and AlphaMissense. It is free for academic research via a web portal, Google's Antigravity agentic platform, and the AlphaGenome interface.
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