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August 8, 2026

ChatGPT reportedly building a smart speaker with moving parts

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OpenAI is reportedly working on a smart speaker, and the company also paused development on a powerful new AI model over security concerns.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

(Reported by Bloomberg) A new smart speaker is reportedly in the works that may use moving parts to seem more 'alive' and will focus on completing complex tasks.

According to a report, OpenAI is developing its first hardware product. The device is described as a battery-powered smart speaker that will be more focused on helping you with tasks than just checking the weather, and could be very expensive. Per Bloomberg, the speaker will follow in the steps of other smart speakers lately in pushing an AI-first focus aimed at helping people complete tasks, compared to simpler smart speaker tasks, like checking the weather. The battery-powered… | Apple is currently suing OpenAI , accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets for its hardware development. Bloomberg’s sources said that OpenAI launched an internal prob… Per Bloomberg, the speaker will follow in the steps of other smart speakers lately in pushing an AI-first focus aimed at helping people complete tasks, compared to simpler smart speaker tasks, like checking the weather. The battery-powered… Apple is currently suing OpenAI , accusing the AI company of stealing trade secrets for its…

Source · OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Source · OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”

ChatGPT

Development on a powerful upcoming model called Astra has been paused due to concerns it was getting too good at coding and cybersecurity tasks.

OpenAI announced it is stopping work on some parts of its next-generation AI, Astra. The company said internal tests showed it was becoming powerful enough to be a potential security risk, so they are pausing to build better safety controls. OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity — enough to warrant concern over its capabilities. | In this case, OpenAI is already under scrutiny after a different unreleased model breached Hugging Face’s systems during internal testing — the first verifiable incident of an A… OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity — enough to warrant concern over its capabilities. In this case, OpenAI is already under scrutiny after a different unreleased model breached…

Source · OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
Source · OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

ChatGPT

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls. A new smart speaker is reportedly in the works.

Source · Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
Source · Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
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Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. | Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent . | Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent . Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3 , xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning , and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent . Smart media selection : Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. | Grok 4.3 and the…

Source · Changelog
Source · Changelog

Claude

Claude

How E.M. Forster’s 1909 sci-fi story “The Machine Stops” provides a blueprint for the artificial state, and why Lepore says it now reads like “the diary of a very unhappy YouTuber”

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Source · Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley's leaders are bad sci-fi readers
Source · Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley's leaders are bad sci-fi readers

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

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Source · The Making of Claude Code