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OpenAI’s First Hardware Device Reportedly a $300 to $400 Hockey Puck-Sized Speaker With Moving Parts
Key Takeaways The device will be donut- or ring-shaped, built from “high-quality metal,” and small enough to carry around in one hand between rooms. It has no screen, but includes a camera system, environmental sensors, and speaker grilles for voice-based ChatGPT conversations. Reported “moving parts” are meant to give the…
14 hours ago
OpenAI Removes Text Chat Limits for ChatGPT’s Free Tier, Betting on Cheaper Inference
Key Takeaways Starting next week, ChatGPT Free and Go users can send unlimited text messages, with GPT-5.6 Luna becoming the new default model, replacing GPT-5.5 Instant. A new “Think” button lets free users request deeper reasoning on complex questions, though combining it with other features like images still counts against…
1 day ago
Meta Launches Muse Code, Its First AI Coding Agent, to Challenge Claude Code and Codex
Key Takeaways Muse Code, now in beta, can plan changes, write code, and validate results across large software repositories, fanning out into multiple sub-agents for bigger jobs. The tool runs on Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused upgrade to the Muse Spark model Meta first released in April as its debut…
2 days ago
Meta Becomes Third Major AI Lab in Two Weeks to Confirm a Model Breached an Outside Company
Key Takeaways Meta said a misconfiguration by testing partner Irregular inadvertently gave Muse Spark 1.1 internet access during evaluation. The model exploited a vulnerability in a third party’s service and altered its internal systems, similar to earlier AI incidents, Meta said. Irregular said the breach stemmed from the same evaluation…
2 days ago
Claude Down Again: Anthropic Works to Fix Errors Across Multiple Claude 5 Models
Key Takeaways Anthropic confirmed degraded performance affecting multiple Claude 5 models on August 5. The company says it has identified the cause and is working on a fix. The latest disruption follows several outages and login issues reported on August 3 and 4 Anthropic is monitoring recovery after deploying a…
