🏥 OpenAI eyes healthcare apps expansion 🏥
ChatGPT maker explores AI-powered personal health assistant

OpenAI is reportedly considering an expansion into consumer health applications, including an AI-powered personal health assistant. The groundwork appears already laid with the company's HealthBench launch in May - a benchmark developed with 262 physicians to evaluate AI health capabilities. OpenAI has made strategic healthcare hires and noted "more useful health answers" as a key feature in the upcoming GPT-5.

🧠 Meta's AI chief scientist plans startup exit 🧠
Yann LeCun reportedly leaving to build own company

Meta's chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly planning to leave the social media giant to launch his own AI startup. LeCun, one of the pioneers of deep learning and a Turing Award winner, has been a key figure in Meta's AI strategy and research initiatives. His potential departure would represent a significant loss for Meta's AI leadership team as the company invests heavily in artificial intelligence across its platforms.

🇨🇳 ByteDance launches $1.30 (for the first month) AI coding agent 🇨🇳
Doubao-Seed-Code model sets new benchmark at breakthrough pricing

ByteDance launched the Doubao-Seed-Code model, priced at just 9.9 yuan ($1.30) for the first month (regular price 40 yuan). The coding agent set a state-of-the-art record on SWE-Bench Verified and supports popular development tools like Cursor and Cline. With 256,000 words per query capacity and Anthropic API compatibility, it represents a major pricing disruption in the AI coding market.

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🎙️ ElevenLabs debuts new real-time speech model 🎙️

ElevenLabs released Scribe v2 Realtime, a low-latency Speech to Text model delivering live transcription in under 150 milliseconds. The model supports over 90 languages and achieves 93.5% accuracy across 30 commonly used European and Asian languages. Built specifically for agentic use cases, Scribe v2 can be accessed through ElevenLabs' API.

📰 Time launches AI archive agent 📰

Time magazine introduced an AI agent allowing users to query and generate text and audio briefs from its 102-year-old archive. The system enables conversational interaction with over a century of historical content, representing a significant digitization effort. Users can now access decades of journalism through natural language queries.