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July 30, 2026

Gemini adds voice dictation, OpenAI hints at hardware

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Gemini's new voice feature lets you talk to type, while OpenAI is giving free access to researchers and hinting at future devices.

Gemini

Gemini

You can now press and hold the Fn key to dictate text directly into any window on your computer.

Gemini has a new voice feature that works like dictation. You just press and hold the 'Fn' key on your keyboard, start talking, and Gemini will type out what you say in whatever app you're using. It's designed to make writing emails or documents faster. What: We’re introducing a new way to work with Gemini using just your voice, right where you are. Press and hold the Fn key to dictate into your active window and have Gemini transcribe your spoken words into clean, polished text directly… | What: We’re introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, an upgraded version of our Flash model, to help you tackle everyday tasks. Try using it for quick tasks like analyzing several document… What: We’re introducing a new way to work with Gemini using just your voice, right where you are. Press and hold the Fn key to dictate into your active window and have Gemini transcribe your spoken words into clean, polished text directly… What: We’re introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, an upgraded version of our Flash…

Source · Gemini Release Notes
Source · Gemini Release Notes
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ChatGPT

ChatGPT

OpenAI's president confirmed the company is working on a 'family of devices' to use with its AI.

In a recent interview, OpenAI's president Greg Brockman said the company is exploring creating its own hardware. He described it as a 'family of devices' designed for interacting with AI, but didn't give any specifics on what they might be or when they would come out. News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News | Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie Bonifield | In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel , OpenAI president Greg Brockman sa… News Close News Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All News Stevie Bonifield Close Stevie Bonifield News Writer Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Stevie…

Source · OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots (The Verge)
Source · OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots (The Verge)

ChatGPT

The company is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most advanced AI tools.

OpenAI has launched a new program to support scientific research. It will provide 100,000 researchers at academic institutions with free access to its best AI, including ChatGPT, to help them with their work and encourage new discoveries. OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery. OpenAI is reportedly working on its own hardware.

Source · Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers
Source · Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic Researchers

ChatGPT

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OpenAI is reportedly working on its own hardware.

Grok

Grok

xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes , including images of minors . In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the p… | Something had gone wrong. Was the law simply not up to the task of curbing an explosion of nonconsensual nudes? Governments around the world were asking fairly similar question… Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes , including images of minors . In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the p… Something had gone wrong. Was the law simply not up to the task of curbing an explosion of nonconsensual nudes? Governments around the world were asking fairly similar questions. The EU launched an investigation , as did the United Kingdom… In Minnesota, the state legislature passed a law targeting “nudification” technology,…

Source · xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law
Source · xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

Claude Code

Claude Code

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it. The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by… The Making of Claude Code

Source · The Making of Claude Code
Source · The Making of Claude Code