King's College London psychiatrists review 185 AI chatbot harm cases

Destined AI, an Atlanta-based outfit, released Hurston-1 as an Apache-2.0 narrowband text-to-speech model. It claims strong American English output with particular strength on Southern American and regional African English accents.

Project proposes training a 1 billion parameter model without datacenters or the millions of dollars AI companies typically spend. A protocol gives contributors a say in the model's direction.

Reddit user Chuka444 posted "Gallop," a motion-continuity and archetypal-imagery experiment built on their open-source TouchDesigner system, with visuals generated in Midjourney v8.2.

Three months after Elon Musk promised a full-length, "historically accurate" Odyssey film, Grok published seven minutes as "Episode 1 of our Odyssey series," made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. TechCrunch calls it more impressive than Musk's recent videos but lacking artistry or human interest.

Musk said the $40 billion debt deal funds the chips behind SpaceX's AI ambitions, after reports it was in talks with banks and investors including Pimco. He also criticized neoclouds.

A r/StableDiffusion user generated 192 images with each of three image models — Moss, Kromoss and Krea 2 — using an identical prompt set, and posted a gallery for side-by-side comparison.

OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna pricing 80% on July 30 to $0.20/$1.20/$0.02 per MTok, and cut GPT-5.6 Sol ~20% to $4/$20/$0.40 for three months. Anthropic made Sonnet 5's $2/$10/$0.20 launch pricing permanent and cut Fable 5.1 cache reads 75%.