Models
Anthropic opens Claude Marketplace with more than 2,000 plugins and connectors, plus partner agents
Businesses can buy Claude-powered products from CrowdStrike, Cursor, Harvey and others, and anyone can publish to the store.
Models
Model releases, capabilities, and platform changes from the frontier labs and open ecosystems.
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OpenAI appears to be preparing 'o,' an always-on ChatGPT assistant that may get its own email identity
The unannounced feature briefly appeared as a perk of the $100 ChatGPT Pro plan, a day or two before OpenAI's DevDay on September 29.
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Nvidia releases Nemotron 3 Diarization, a free 100M-parameter model that tracks up to eight speakers live
The open-weight model tops VoiceArena's diarization benchmark with a 14.72 percent error rate and cuts errors by 41 percent compared with its predecessor.
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Arena analysis finds Claude Opus 5.5 has nearly stopped using em dashes, though its answers are getting longer
Em dashes fell from 15.2 to 0.8 per 1,000 words compared with Opus 5, and sentences got shorter.
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Microsoft rebuilds Copilot around Home, Code and an always-on Autopilot agent
The former Scout assistant gets its own cloud computer and identity, and a no-code builder runs on GitHub Copilot technology.
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Google adds Live Avatar to Gemini 3.8 Live, pairing real-time speech with generated video of a persona
The animated persona lip-syncs, changes expressions and switches among 97 languages, and for now only Gemini Enterprise customers can use it.
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Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action, an open 7B world-action model for robots
The company says the model sets a success-rate record on the RoboLab-120 leaderboard at less than half the size of the previous best open model.
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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with prompt-designed voices and line-by-line direction
The models can create or replicate voices from natural-language prompts and ship with built-in watermarking.
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Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.1 adds five speech models and cuts audio prices by up to 95 percent
The lineup covers transcription, speech synthesis and real-time conversation, with speech-recognition prices dropping the most.