Anthropic safety researcher Joe Benton resigned, warning the company is hiding safety incidents, marking the second Anthropic safety departure in two days after Jacob Coxon’s exit on September 9.
Yelp is using OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 to power more natural, interruptible reservation calls
Instinct is looking to raise $1B, which could value the year-old AI assistant startup at $10B+ as it races to secure more compute with Meta entering the space
Grok Bot appears to be rolling out on Grok web for Grok Heavy users, letting them create and interact with bots directly in the browser
DeepSeek’s mobile app now offers 4 voice options (Mira, Echo, Stella, Tide) for its text to speech read aloud feature
xAI said Grok 4.7 needs more time, citing issues with RL over-penalizing response length and the model giving up early on hard tasks
Agora integrated GPT Live 1 into its open source AI meeting copilot, letting it join calls, transcribe, answer questions live, and add tasks to a Kanban board
Perplexity is building an Automations feature for Perplexity Computer to let users schedule or trigger workflows automatically
OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind in the API and Codex for biological research, helping connect findings across papers and plan experiments
Claude Code added a new eval feature letting devs test and score their plugins/skills against custom test cases
ElevenLabs launched Music v2.5 with richer melodies and more realistic instrumentation, available for commercial use on all plans including Free
DAWN has raised $40M since 2024 to tokenize AI and connectivity infrastructure, backed by Dragonfly, Polychain, VanEck and others
