ElevenMusic launches Music v2.5 as its default AI music model, promising richer melodies and more natural instruments while giving free users five lossless downloads daily and Pro users 400 monthly.
Colibrì now runs MoE models as large as Kimi K3’s 2.8 trillion parameters on machines with just 25 GB of memory by streaming routed experts from disk, though cold GLM-5.2 inference falls to 0.05–0.1 tokens per second.
OmniVoice now generates 24 kHz speech across 600-plus languages from 3–10-second voice samples, though cross-lingual clones retain the accent of the reference speaker’s language.
Speak launches GPT-Live-1 at $0.05 per minute, claiming its front-end voice layer cuts learner interruptions during thinking pauses by nearly 80% and boosts Full Duplex Bench scores by 30 points over GPT-Realtime-2.1.
Google launches Gemini for Windows 10 and 11 worldwide, letting users press Alt + Space for on-screen help and Gmail/Drive-powered project summaries, while Gemini Spark 1 tackles multi-step tasks and Nano Banana generates images.
Cohere and RWS unveil North Small Translate, a 218B-parameter mixture-of-experts system with 25B active parameters whose error-finding Agentic version reaches 84.36 on WMT26 tests and beats DeepL NextGen across every tested non-European region.
U.S. business AI adoption reaches 56.1% in August, but the biggest spenders cut per-employee outlays from $7,976 to $7,205 as frontier models’ token share slips to 45% and open-source or Chinese options remain used by just 6.4% of AI-buying firms.
Suno launches its v6 AI music model family, now trained exclusively on licensed music from major partners like Warner Music Group and BMG, but the company still faces active lawsuits from Sony and Universal Music Group amid ongoing legal battles over AI and copyright.
OpenAI appoints AI alignment pioneer Paul Christiano to its Foundation Board as a non-voting observer, bolstering its Safety and Security Committee with a researcher who founded the Alignment Research Center and previously led alignment efforts at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021.
The NSA, CISA, and FBI are accusing six major Chinese AI firms — including DeepSeek and Alibaba — of conducting industrial-scale attacks to steal US frontier AI technology, urging American companies to secretly downgrade suspected attackers, as tensions escalate ahead of a Trump-Xi summit.