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427 stories · page 13 of 48Waymo is carrying its first public riders in Las Vegas and announced a plan for Tokyo in 2027
From 14 September the driverless cars carry the public along the Strip, in an area of nearly 24 miles. The same day Waymo, Nihon Kotsu and GO announced a plan for a commercial service in Tokyo next year, if regulators grant approval.
Read →ElevenLabs put voice, music, image and video into one connector for your chat
The ElevenLabs MCP connector no longer just manages agents, it now makes content as well: speech, transcription, dubbing, music, sound effects, images and video. One install, sign in with your account, no server and no API key.
Read →Two JFrog Artifactory flaws entered the catalog of exploited vulnerabilities, along with GitLab and ScreenConnect
On 11 September CISA listed four vulnerabilities as actively exploited. Two are in JFrog Artifactory, the server where companies keep their packages and artifacts. The other two are in GitLab, rated 10.0, and in ScreenConnect, and for those the deadline is only three days.
Read →ElevenLabs Music v2.5: the song you make is yours on every plan, unless it is built on someone else's
On 11 September ElevenLabs made Music v2.5 the default model in ElevenMusic and gave lossless downloads on every plan, including Free. Downloads are blocked, however, for songs built on other artists' songs.
Read →DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and retired its own flagship: requests to V4-Pro now go to the smaller model
On 10 September DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, the smallest model of a new architecture family, with 552 billion parameters and only 8 billion active when reading input. From 14 September all requests to V4-Pro are routed to it at its prices. The weights are under MIT.
Read →ElevenLabs signed its first major-label deal with Universal Music, and the fan platform doesn't exist yet
ElevenLabs and Universal Music Group entered a multi-year licensing agreement and strategic collaboration. The first step is a fan platform built on licensed music, with remixes, mashups and new interpretations from participating artists. The platform is in development.
Read →OpenAI gave every developer the Codex harness as an API and charges nothing on top
On 10 September OpenAI launched the Agents API in public beta. With one call you create a cloud agent with a given task, model, tools and environment, and behind it sits the same harness that powers Codex. There is no extra fee: you pay for tokens and tools.
Read →GPT-Live-1 listens and speaks at the same time, and it is now in the API, with the voice layer at 5 cents a minute
On 10 September OpenAI brought the voice model GPT-Live-1, so far in ChatGPT, to the API. It listens and speaks at the same moment, can leave the thinking and the tools to another model behind it, and costs $0.05 per minute for the voice layer.
Read →Mythos 5 tells where a photo was taken with a median error of 47 km, while GeoGuessr champions miss by 151
On 10 September Anthropic's Frontier Red Team published evaluations for intelligence targeting and conventional weapons development. The finding: in some tasks models now do what only a small number of highly trained experts could do before. The company has added new classifiers against such misuse.
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