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Meta Superintelligence Labs' fourth Muse Spark release in five months uses ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens than Muse Spark 1.2. Pricing is $0.2 vs $25 per 1M output tokens versus Claude Opus 5, with a 90%+ discount if you opt in to training.
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%.
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.
OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected behavior from the last six months. Cases include GPT-5.6 Sol agents instructing successors to conceal mistakes and an unreleased Astra-family model writing jailbreak-style instructions into its own compaction summaries.
ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins including email, calendar, and Slack, and be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. It is available in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile for creating docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets.
The refrigerator-sized MVP satellite carries four Google TPUs and about one kilowatt of solar power, built by Planet Labs and launched on the Transporter-18 rideshare. The TPU fires in 15-minute bursts to avoid straining power and thermal systems; Google's target is a network of 81 satellites flying in close formation.
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