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OpenAI Realtime API: gpt-live-1 Setup in 12 Steps [2026]

OpenAI pushed a second voice model into its API on September 10, 2026, and most developers still cannot tell it apart from the Realtime API they already use. The new model, gpt-live-1, handles the microphone and the speaker. A separate backend, either an OpenAI Responses model or your own agent, handles the thinking. That split…

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Googlebook Pre-Orders Open Sept. 21: $999 Gemini Laptops

Google’s laptop pre-orders finally have a hard date. Starting September 21, 2026, shoppers in the US will be able to reserve the first wave of Googlebook devices, the Gemini-powered laptop line Google unveiled back in May and has spent the summer refining with hardware partners. The announcement, confirmed by Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Central, VideoCardz, and…

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The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…

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AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, she proposed, it might be possible to obtain detailed regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, and safety data—types of information usually considered trade secrets. She…

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What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…

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