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260 posts
2026
GPT-Transcribe Makes Context the New ASR FeatureOriginalOpenAI's GPT-Transcribe launched July 29, 2026 with prompt, keyword, and language hints. Free-form context lifted accuracy from 38.5% to 44.6%.Speech-to-Text
Grok Voice 2.0 Ships With a Quiet 60% Price RiseOriginalGrok Voice Think Fast 2.0 launched July 29, 2026 at $0.08/min, up from $0.05. On August 5 the grok-voice-latest alias migrates you automatically.Voice AI
Fish Audio's $52M Seed: Open Weights Got Them HereOriginalFish Audio raised a $52M seed on July 28, 2026 with $21M ARR and 8M users. Its new S2.1 Pro model is closed, API-only. What that shift means for TTS.Text-to-Speech
TIL: git history fixup replaces the autosquash danceOriginalGit 2.55's experimental git history fixup folds staged changes into an earlier commit in one command. I built it from source and ran it.TIL
OpenAI Presence: Voice Agents You Can't Self-ServeOriginalOpenAI Presence deploys enterprise voice and chat agents, but only via OpenAI's own engineers. No API, no pricing, no self-serve. What that means.Voice AI
AgentForger: One Link Forges an AI Insider in Your OrgOriginalZenity disclosed AgentForger, a ChatGPT Workspace Agents flaw where one phishing link forged a persistent AI insider. OpenAI fixed it in four days.AI
Kimi K3 Weights Drop as Washington Argues DistillationOriginalMoonshot ships Kimi K3's 2.8 trillion parameter weights days after the US floated a ban and accused it of distilling Anthropic's Fable.AI
What a Week at SpeechifyOriginalOne week at Speechify: Simba went multilingual, streaming TTS gained timestamps, voice agents learned to switch language mid-call, headers got renamed.Voice AI
MAI-Voice-Flash, Opus 5, and a Red LineOriginalMicrosoft MAI-Voice-2-Flash enters TTS at $15/M. Anthropic ships Opus 5 at half Fable's cost. OpenAI faces red-line questions after Hugging Face.Voice AI
MCP Goes Stateless on Monday: What Breaks and WhyOriginalMCP goes stateless on Monday: the 2026-07-28 spec drops the initialize handshake and session IDs. Here is what breaks, and the handler I wrote to test it.AI