2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (173+ words) TestingCatalog AI News OpenAI has launched GPT-Live-1 in the API, bringing the natural voice model first introduced in ChatGPT to developers building voice applications and business workflows. The model listens and speaks at the same time, handles interruptions and acknowledgments…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (255+ words) Mercury 2.5 is now available through Inception, Baseten, and OpenRouter, with Mercury Voice and Mercury Router entering preview. Mercury 2.5 generates 1,107 tokens per second on widely available NVIDIA GPUs and supports a 260K-token context window. Its capabilities include tunable reasoning, parallel tool…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (275+ words) TestingCatalog AI News Reference-led generation is meant to keep subjects recognizable when their setting, style, or composition changes. Precision editing targets only the requested element while keeping the subject, background, layout, and brand treatment stable. Across longer conversations, earlier changes…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (157+ words) Managed Agents on AOI Platform demo Managed agents will not be the only announcement at DevDay. Model updates, security solutions, and more are also expected. Although access to the agents UI is not available yet, the codebase suggests functionality very…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (386+ words) TestingCatalog AI News The Institute of Foundation Models has released K2 Horizon, a connected family of six language models ranging from 0.9 billion to 375 billion parameters, published alongside details on how each was trained. The sizes run 0.9B, 3.7B, 7B, 32B, 36B, and 375B, and IFM maps each…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (170+ words) GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to ChatGPT paid plans and major cloud APIs with faster computer use, new Codex context memory and stronger safeguards. GPT-6 Astra is now available to all Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users in ChatGPT Work…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (139+ words) OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach the Critical cybersecurity threshold, with limited alpha access planned before wider Daybreak Blue use. In hands-on assessments, Astra built a browser compromise chain that escaped the sandbox and ran host commands…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (276+ words) The latest surfaced outputs were reportedly generated zero-shot with Max effort, where Astra spends substantially longer reasoning than GPT-5.6 Sol. OpenAI appears to be moving Astra closer to release, with reports pointing to expanded internal testing and a new checkpoint…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (222+ words) Tencent released open-source Hy4 preview model TestingCatalog AI News Tencent has released Hy4 preview, a 770-billion-parameter flagship model with 49 billion active parameters and a one-million-token context window. The company calls it its most capable model so far and says it delivers the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (254+ words) The latest Gemini desktop app update introduces Avatars and hints at future app and plugin discovery features, as Google readies Gemini 4. At the same time, Google is preparing internally for Gemini 4. Based on earlier information about roughly six-month training cycles,…...