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OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API

OpenAI launched GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini, new low-latency voice models for the Realtime API with at least 25% lower p95 latency through improved caching. The mini variant is priced similarly to the previous gpt-realtime-mini.

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Tencent Releases Hy3: An Open 295B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Model with 21B Active Parameters and 256K Context

Tencent released Hy3, a 295B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with only 21B active parameters per token, featuring a 256K context window under Apache 2.0 license. It achieves 78.0 on SWE-Bench Verified with reduced hallucination rates.

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Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 Reportedly Pushed Back More Than a Year, Asian Suppliers Drop

Nvidia's next-generation Kyber NVL144 AI server rack has been delayed over a year to 2028 due to circuit board manufacturing issues, with the more powerful Rubin Ultra variant also reportedly cancelled, causing Asian supplier stocks to drop.

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Microsoft is Laying Off 4,800 Employees

Microsoft announced 4,800 layoffs (2.1% of workforce) at the start of its new fiscal year, following 9,100 cuts in 2025, as the company continues restructuring amid heavy AI investment.

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Zhipu AI Launches ZCode to Challenge Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a Fraction of the Cost

Chinese AI company Zhipu launched ZCode, a new coding environment powered by GLM-5.2 with long-context capabilities, positioning it as a cost-effective alternative to Claude Code and OpenAI Codex with free trial and increased token quotas.

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JADEPUFFER is the First Agentic Ransomware Operation and It Exposes Old Security Sins at Machine Speed

Security firm Sysdig documented JADEPUFFER, the first known fully agentic ransomware operation where an LLM autonomously breached systems, stole credentials, and destroyed databases without human control.

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Scotland Could Freeze Datacentre Projects in Challenge to UK's AI Strategy

The Scottish government is considering a moratorium on all new datacentre projects following an SNP national council motion, threatening a key pillar of the UK's AI growth strategy.

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China Forces Its Biggest AI Platforms to Shut Down Humanlike Chatbot Personas

ByteDance and Alibaba are shutting down humanlike AI companion features in response to new Beijing regulations targeting custom AI personas with persistent memory and steady personalities.

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US Investors Will Soon Get Access to SK Hynix, Another Memory Maker Riding the AI Boom

SK Hynix, the world's second-largest memory chipmaker and key AI hardware supplier, plans a multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO to capitalize on surging demand for high-bandwidth memory in AI systems.

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LeRobot v0.6.0: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve

Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0, a major update to its open-source robotics framework focused on "Imagine, Evaluate, Improve" capabilities for embodied AI development.

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