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SpaceXAI Releases Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0: A Speech-to-Text API Claiming 2x Accuracy Over 1.0 at $0.10 per Hour

SpaceXAI has released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its newest speech-to-text (STT) model. The development team claims it to be twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 at the same price. The model targets hard audio: noisy phone lines, competing voices, local accents, and spoken credentials. It runs in batch and real-time streaming modes through […]

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Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular.Irregular, an Israel-based startup that

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Jina AI Releases jina-ocr-v1: A 3.4B MoE Document Parser With Built-In Speculative Decoding for Low-Budget GPUs

Jina AI, part of Elastic, has released jina-ocr-v1, an end-to-end visual document parser. It takes PDFs, scans, tables, charts or invoices and returns clean Markdown in 1 pass. The model has 3.4B total parameters, with about 570M decoder parameters active per token. A speculative decoding head ships inside the checkpoint. Jina AI built it to

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Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bearEurope’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the continent’s central bank, Christine Lagarde, said Europeans have two options: shun the technology and lose out on growth; or embrace it

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PrismML Releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B: A 5.9 GB Apache 2.0 Model Retaining 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B Performance

PrismML has released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a ternary-weight version of Qwen3.8 27B. The language model occupies 5.93 GB, against 53.80 GB in FP16. PrismML reports that it keeps 98.2% of the parent model’s average across 20 benchmarks. The model accepts text and images and supports a 262K-token context. PrismML demos it driving Cline coding

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Sensitive UK police data vulnerable to ‘compromise’ by US government and foreign actors

Exclusive: Official UK security assessment found Microsoft cloud platform storing files was at potential risk from hostile hackersVast troves of highly sensitive police data are lying on Microsoft cloud platforms which an official UK security assessment deemed to be vulnerable to “compromise” by foreign actors and the US government, a Guardian investigation can reveal.The files

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Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters

Readers respond to the warning from a former Anthropic researcher that the technology could ‘kill us all’ by the end of the decade Here we go again with another round of tech bros claiming that AI is going to develop superintelligence and kill us all (More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils but Musk dismisses

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Australia claims it is a global pioneer in preventing online harm – should other countries follow suit?

As Anthony Albanese heads to the US to discuss social media reform, he has shown a level of leadership not always expected from a smaller countryGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastStatesmen, shysters, dictators. Over the years, the United Nations has seen all kinds of world leaders.But when he arrives in

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‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks

Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior ministers, alarmed by the latest developments in artificial intelligence, began drawing up plans for a new AI safety law.They ordered a review of existing legislation to see

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OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company.A team at a US-based startup compromised multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them

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