Block unveils Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained only on speech

OpenAI published a community safety report alongside new teen protections, citing expanded safeguards and earlier interventions in ChatGPT. It also commits to ongoing public safety reporting.

Luxonis launched OAK 4 FFC, a 70 x 53 mm vision computer letting humanoid and drone builders place up to five cameras, with on-board stereo depth and AI that calibrates from the scene instead of a checkerboard. The roundup also covers RAI's whole-body manipulation demo and ETH Zurich's contact-centric humanoid mobility framework.

ECB Chief Economist Philip Lane said AI investment and global rollout are buoying the euro zone economy as companies adopt the technology.

The upgraded model has 560B total parameters, 25B active per token, and a 1M-token context window. It scores 44 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3, up from 41 for Ling 3.1 Flash.

Shultz, who exposed Theranos' faulty blood-testing devices, told The San Francisco Standard that "the days of having a thirty-minute coffee with someone and sending them $100,000 should be over." He compared the pattern to Theranos, which hit a ~$10B valuation despite its technology never working.