OpenAI has upgraded the voice model used by ChatGPT. The model is reportedly impressive. It has the ability to spin off harder tasks to GPT-5.5 and continue conversations for at least a full hour. The model can continue talking with users and maintain the flow of conversation while it works on background tasks.

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, a workhorse that can tackle all of the typical tasks that the AI industry has sought to automate. The model reportedly has twice the token efficiency of other leading models, which could be a big advantage for SpaceXAI as the cost of tokens has become a growing concern for AI consumers. The new model costs $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Benchmark results from SpaceXAI are available in the article.

Blue Origin is raising its first outside funding round. Jeff Bezos is set to contribute $2 billion to the round. The company suffered a setback in late May when one of its New Glenn rockets exploded on a launch pad. It has set an aggressive goal to return New Glenn to flight by the end of the year.

City Labs' BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability) satellite launched on a SpaceX ride-share mission on Tuesday alongside 80 other payloads. It was released into an orbit at an altitude between 350 and 400 miles. The world's first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, BOHR, is powered by electricity generated from the decay of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen. The company's betavoltaic power systems are far too small to power a smartphone, much less a large spacecraft or a moon base, but it is a step in the right direction for proponents of nuclear power in space.

Agents can write code, but someone must be able to explain exactly what changed, why it was safe, and what will happen if they're wrong, otherwise, their actions can't be justified. Engineers need to own the outer loop and be accountable for systems. Humans are still required in the constraints loop, the sampling loop, the audit loop, and the ownership loop. The scarce resource is human judgment informed by quality signals like logs or tests.

Bun was facing a large number of bugs that were use-after-free, double-free, or 'forgot to free' in an error path. In safe Rust, these are compiler errors and RAII-like automatic cleanup with Drop, so it made sense to rewrite Bun in Rust. However, such a task would take a small team of engineers a full year to complete. As an experiment, one of Bun's developers tried using Anthropic's new models to rewrite Bun in Rust. This resulted in a runtime that was faster, smaller, and used less memory. This article discusses the lessons and tricks learned during the agentic development process.

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Meta is testing out a smart glasses prototype with always-on recording to help users remember things about their day. The prototype will not have a light-up LED indicator for when the glasses are recording. There are divergent views within the company about whether the data collected by the glasses should be stored on Meta's servers and used to train AI. Creating the technology will be challenging due to the battery and other issues.

AI companies are distorting San Francisco's housing market. Some homeowners are accepting offers for shares of OpenAI or Anthropic as payments for their homes. Property prices are surging as buyers bet that whoever they overpay today will look cheap tomorrow. Landlords are putting out tenants to sell into the hotter market. Many properties are closing at prices at least $1 million more than their asking price last month.

Entire is a new Git hosting network that meets the needs of AI agents and those minding them.

TypeScript 7 brings native code speed, shared memory multithreading, and a number of new optimizations that typically yield speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds.

John Deere will be required to provide farmers and independent repair providers with the same equipment repair resources that it currently provides to authorized Deere dealers for the next 10 years.

Ownership means owning the solution of a problem from end to end, from 'we have a problem' to 'we don't have to think about it again'.

DuckDuckGo's ad detection and blocking are based on the open-source community filter lists from uBlockOrigin.

Meerkat is an experimental consensus service at Cloudflare designed to manage small pieces of control plane state.