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The Verge · AI

r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers and more

On Saturday evening, the r/opensource moderators issued new rules prohibiting the submission of any open-source projects that are used by, generated by, or targeted at AI; they also require that projects be at least one year old, have multiple maintainers and be actively maintained. Additionally, they explicitly stated that posts from non-English-speaking users will not be accepted, citing an inability to distinguish between AI-translated and AI-generated content.

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The Verge · AI

Block releases its new voice AI model, Dessa: trained entirely on real-world conversations, with a slightly awkward conversational style.

Jack Dorsey’s company, Block, announced the launch of an end-to-end voice AI model called Dessa, claiming it was trained entirely from scratch using only human speech dialogue data. The official demonstration samples exhibited a mix of naturalness and awkwardness—for example, mistakenly addressing a user as “Ronaldo”—highlighting its anthropomorphic yet still immature conversational capabilities.

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TechCrunch · AI

OpenAI officially launches the Decisions API decision-making model, directly competing with TypeSafe Jev.

OpenAI will make the Decisions API available to all customers around October 22, 2026. This model is rebuilt on top of ChatGPT Luna and emphasizes millisecond-level low latency and cost-effective inference, with advantages in multimodal tasks such as image understanding. Currently, it lags behind competitors like the latest Jev and D1 Ultra in mainstream decision-making model benchmarks, but has already been adopted in real-world testing by companies including Box, Datadog, and Speak.

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Major upgrade to Amazon Polly’s generative engine: 14 new voices added, and for the first time, support for Hindi and Finnish generative speech, with zero-code migration.

Amazon Polly’s generative engine has undergone a major upgrade, significantly enhancing speech naturalness, accuracy, and emotional expressiveness, while supporting low-latency streaming synthesis. Fourteen new generative voices have been added, covering nine regions, and for the first time, generative voices in Hindi (Arjun, Kiara) and Finnish (Suvi) are universally available. The entire update is a seamless, drop-in replacement, requiring no changes to API calls or code.

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TechCrunch · AI

Uber has fully deployed ChatGPT Work: 30,000 employees have gained access to OpenAI’s enterprise-grade AI tools.

Uber announced that it has rolled out ChatGPT Work to all roughly 30,000 of its global employees, scaling up from an initial pilot involving a thousand staff at the start of the year to company-wide adoption. The tool is already being used for data analysis, localization of multilingual training materials, and building interactive work dashboards, though specific use cases remain under each team’s own exploration, and the company has not yet disclosed the procurement costs.

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Beyond Canopy Cover: The World’s First 10-Meter-Resolution Forest Type Classification Map Released

DeepMind, in collaboration with Google Earth Engine, has launched AlphaEarth Foundations, achieving for the first time fine-grained classification of forest types for every 10-meter-by-10-meter land unit on Earth, covering more than ten ecological types including tropical rainforests, temperate deciduous forests, and boreal coniferous forests.

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Moshi: A real-time AI recommendation engine for traders, reimagining market insights through workflow integration.

Former JPMorgan energy derivatives trader Anekha Sokhal founded Moshi to build a real-time AI recommendation system that integrates structured and unstructured data. Its core focus is not to replace Bloomberg, but rather to deeply embed AI into traders’ daily workflows, emphasizing trusted-source filtering, on-device processing of proprietary data, identification of conflicting signals, and customer‑driven product development.

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