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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost
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- September 15, 2026
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Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. At $1.38 per hour of voice conversation, Google significantly undercuts OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1, which should still sound more natural thanks to full duplex. The article Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take […]
Attention armchair selectors: these are the mistakes you’re making
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- June 28, 2026
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Think you could pick a better All Blacks squad than Dave Rennie and co? You’re not alone… but you’re also probably wrong. The build-up and reaction to the All Blacks squad announcement reassuringly confirmed that we remain a nation of armchair selectors. The selection process involves whittling the 200-plus Super Rugby players down to 34. […]
Thinking Machines bets on efficiency over size with its second model, Inkling Small
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- July 31, 2026
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Thinking Machines, the AI lab from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling Small. The open-weights reasoning model is less than a third the size of Inkling but beats it on several coding and reasoning benchmarks. The article Thinking Machines bets on efficiency over size with its second model, Inkling Small appeared first on […]
[News] How AI Is Being Used to Paper Over a Local News Crisis
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- June 30, 2026
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McClatchy, a major U.S. local‑news publisher, has deployed an in‑house “content scaling agent” that publishes AI‑written stories under real reporters’ bylines to counter a $34 million revenue loss, stagnant audience growth and newsroom productivity pressures. Executives tout AI as a business lifeline, yet the strategy yields high traffic with cheap clicks but fails to stem […]