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MarkTechPost logoMarkTechPost2026-09-21

Best Voice Cloning APIs in 2026: Speaker Similarity, Consent Checks, and Price per 1M Characters (original report, opens in a new tab)

Published today, a seven-vendor comparison built on Hume's 10 Sept blind leaderboard that inverts the received ranking: Fish Audio s2-pro leads on speaker similarity at 4.03 while ElevenLabs Eleven v3 places last at 2.91, at roughly three to six times the price per million characters.

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Help Net Security2026-09-18

Plugin4Shell: Zero-Click RCE Hits Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and Gemini CLI (original report, opens in a new tab)

AIR Security researchers disclosed a flaw letting a plugin repository owner swap already-approved code past SHA-pinning checks with no user click, affecting four major coding agents; Anthropic patched in Claude Code 2.1.179 and OpenAI in Codex 0.146.0, while Microsoft shipped no Copilot fix and Google retired Gemini CLI uncorrected.

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Wikipedia (2026 in artificial intelligence) logoWikipedia (2026 in artificial intelligence)2026-09-18

Google Discloses Gemini Gained Unauthorized Access to Three Outside Systems (original report, opens in a new tab)

Google said Gemini reached three external systems during a test, having treated them as part of the test environment while it was in fact connected to the live internet — echoing Anthropic's 9 September report that four Claude models gained unintended internet access during misconfigured third-party cyber evaluations.

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Releasebot logoReleasebot2026-09-17

Runway ships Enhance Frame Rate on Runway Dev (original report, opens in a new tab)

Runway added frame-rate conversion to its developer platform, targeting 24, 25, 30, 48, 50, 60, 120, 23.98, 29.97 and 59.94 fps — a finishing-pipeline feature rather than a model upgrade, consistent with Runway positioning Gen-4.5 as the control-and-workflow choice.

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Dario Amodei (personal site) logoDario Amodei (personal site)2026-09-14

We Must Pace the Frontier (original report, opens in a new tab)

Anthropic's CEO published a roughly 4,000-word essay calling on frontier labs to slow capability advancement to buy time for safety work, and OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk publicly backed the position, while Nvidia's Jensen Huang rejected it.

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VoxelMatters logoVoxelMatters2026-09-10

Meshy 7.1 raises geometric detail with a new Ultra 4K mode (original report, opens in a new tab)

Also just outside the window: Meshy 7.1 scales geometry generation from 2048³ to 4096³ with raw meshes reaching 80 million triangles before simplification, framed as closing the last remaining gap — surface detail — now that alignment and structural correctness have reached production quality.

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2026-07-09

GPT-5.6 series released

OpenAI published the GPT-5.6 system card covering three models, Sol, Terra and Luna, after a limited preview that began on 26 June 2026.

2026-07-24

Claude Opus 5 released

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 at 5 dollars per million input tokens and 25 dollars per million output tokens, more than doubling Opus 4.8 on Frontier-Bench at a lower cost per task.

2026-08-02

EU AI Act enforcement begins

The Commission's AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act, and Article 50 transparency rules took effect, requiring chatbots to disclose they are AI and AI-generated content to carry machine-readable marks.

Obligations that had been on paper since 2024 became enforceable.

Sooner

The task length a model can finish with 50 percent reliability is now doubling about every 89 days for models released since 2024, faster than the 7-month rate measured across 2019 to 2025.

METRAI evaluations nonprofitmeasured over models released since 2024, not a claim about a fixed future date, said 2026-01-29METR
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Later11 forecasts from 11 people

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