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OpenAI has released two new speech-to-text models – gpt-transcribe for recordings and gpt-transcribe-live for low-latency live transcription. According to the company, they are more accurate and support 57 languages. Currently only via the API.
A finance professor explains how to get reliable answers to personal finance questions from AI chatbots: they are good for everyday decisions, while major and irreversible decisions carry a risk of confident but incorrect advice.
Bolt has launched ride booking through a plugin in ChatGPT, available in Czechia too. It displays the price, route and driver arrival, and the booking is completed in the Bolt app; according to the company, payment through ChatGPT is expected to be added later this year.
An analysis by IEEE Spectrum describes deepening global inequality in AI: the concentration of data centers and cloud services in the USA, differences in digital skills, the withdrawal of the South African AI policy over nonexistent citations, and the Indonesian BRIN project for local communities.
Grandparents in the USA are giving children personalized books from AI tools such as Imagitime or Childbook.ai. Parents criticize the low quality of the texts and unclear handling of children's photos, while a researcher at Macquarie University confirms their lower quality compared with traditional books.
Researchers described Aletheia, an offline system for differential diagnosis built on a fine-tuned Qwen2.5-3B model, intended for hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa with limited connectivity and hardware.
OpenAI confirmed that the incident involving increased API error rates had been resolved — it has now emerged that it affected 11 services (Chat Completions, Images, Sora, Embeddings and others), not just the initially reported Chat Completions.
New: The incident affected 11 OpenAI API services (not just Chat Completions); Complete list of affected services: Chat Completions, Embeddings, Images, Sora, Batch, Audio, Fine-tuning, Files, Moderations, Responses, Realtime, Login; The report came from the official OpenAI Status channel; All affected services have fully recovered and are operational; The scope of the incident was substantially greater than the original description suggested
Simon Willison described how to set up a custom MCP server in Claude.ai and ChatGPT. In Claude.ai, it takes a few clicks in the Connectors menu; in ChatGPT, you need to enable the hidden Developer mode, and MCP is referred to there as a „Plugin"; MCP does not work in ChatGPT voice mode.
Cybersecurity startup Spur Intelligence, focused on bot detection, received an investment of 200 million dollars from Insight Partners. According to Cloudflare, bots on the internet have surpassed human traffic for the first time in history.
The model Claude Mythos Preview from Anthropic largely independently discovered an improved attack on the post-quantum scheme HAWK and a new attack on a weakened version of AES-128. According to the company, this does not threaten current systems.
MCP has published specification 2026-07-28, the largest revision of the protocol since its inception – it is becoming stateless and scales on standard HTTP infrastructure. According to AWS, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway supports it through an opt-in upgrade, and existing clients work without changes.
Substack has launched detection of AI-generated text in collaboration with Pangram, which assigns percentage scores to posts. Some authors criticize the tool as unreliable and a risk to their reputation; the company responds that it is about transparency, not penalties.
Analyst Liz Orembo (Research ICT Africa) criticizes the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva for focusing on risks arising from model capabilities, while she argues that actual harms in Africa are caused by deployment risks – discriminatory scoring, digital identities, translation errors.
Perplexity has launched Personal Computer for Windows – an agent with access to local files, applications and Microsoft 365. It is available on the paid Max and Enterprise Max plans starting at 200 dollars per month.
Healthcare technology company Carebot announced an investment of over 1.5 million euros and introduced a certified mammography tool. According to the company, its AI for chest X-rays and cancer screening now runs in hundreds of hospitals in eight European countries and outside Europe.
Cursor has launched a cheaper Cursor Start subscription for India at 649 rupees (~7 USD) per month, with a more limited set of models and features than the Pro plan at 20 USD, shortly before the planned closing of its acquisition by SpaceX for 60 billion dollars.
Anthropic chief Dario Amodei denied that the company supports a ban on open-weight models, including Chinese models. He was responding to a letter from Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Hugging Face opposing restrictions. He sees the main threat in authoritarian governments, not in open weights as such.
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M, designed to be fine-tuned for classification and other text understanding tasks. They support 8 192 tokens and, according to the company, process long inputs faster than the models used for comparison, even on a CPU.
GitHub has extended central settings management (managed-settings.json) for Copilot to the Copilot app and the cloud agent - previously, it applied only to Copilot CLI and VS Code. Administrators can thus manage plugins, marketplaces and the bypassing of approval prompts consistently across clients.
The website 404 Media describes how the amount of unlabeled AI music on Spotify is growing, prompting independent developers to create the detection tools SoullessMusic and SlopTracker, while Spotify did not respond to questions.
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