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Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (475+ words) The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents along with a full training recipe. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool…...


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OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API lets developers build apps that talk and listen at the same time OpenAI is making GPT-Live-1 available to developers as an API. The speech model can listen and talk at the same time, a feature…...


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New Deepseek model V4.1-Flash cuts memory needs for AI agents

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (509+ words) Deepseek's new multimodal model is built mainly to cut the operating costs of long contexts. The biggest gain is in memory use, though Deepseek also promises better model performance. According to the technical report, Deepseek has a clear goal with…...


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OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (206+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux poured some gas on the hype fire. Astra was probably OpenAI's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly…...


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Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (483+ words) Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released their first real-time audio perception model. It transcribes speech, tells speakers apart, and detects sentence boundaries during live conversation. The Spark-family model breaks incoming audio into 80-millisecond chunks. After each one, it decides whether to…...


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Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (647+ words) Abliteration.ai removes trained refusal mechanisms from powerful open-weight models and sells access to the modified versions as a service. There's a legitimate market for that, but the same setup creates a difficult security trade-off. Anyone with access to an…...


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Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (276+ words) the-decoder.com Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchmarks failed to capture GPT-6 Astra's actual progress. Earlier, several…...


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OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (506+ words) OpenAI's model documentation spells out where GPT-6 Astra tends toward unwanted behavior and how developers can work around it. GPT-6 Astra asks clarifying questions more often than GPT-5.6 Sol instead of making assumptions on its own, according to OpenAI, making…...


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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (347+ words) the-decoder.com OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections - OpenAI's new model GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor GPT-5.6 Sol and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injection attacks. - Astra also resists jailbreaks more effectively,…...


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Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (289+ words) Three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash, Google is back with Gemini 3.8 Flash. The budget model is supposed to beat its predecessor by a wide margin in coding. According to Google's own numbers, Gemini 3.8 Flash hits 73.7 percent on the DeepSWE v1.1 benchmark for…...