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OpenAI says it is rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 and a smaller version called GPT-Live-1.1 Quip for ChatGPT Voice, with more natural accents across languages. New voices cover French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Mexican Spanish, plus a new English voice called Bubbie.

A natural compound extracted from a medicinal plant showed promise against rheumatoid arthritis in rats, reducing joint swelling, protecting cartilage and calming immune responses behind chronic inflammation. Scientists found it works by targeting a specific protein and restoring balance to fatty acid metabolism. The evidence is from animal models and has not been validated in humans.

AMD and Intel have chosen oneDNN, an open-source deep learning library, as the default for PyTorch on x86 processors to speed up AI workloads. Developers running models on Ryzen, EPYC, Core or Xeon CPUs should no longer need a separate path for each brand.

In a clinical trial involving 63 patients, researchers found that ultrasound-guided hydrodissection provided longer-lasting improvements in pain and hand function compared to traditional steroid injections. This simple, steroid-free procedure could potentially offer lasting relief for people with carpal tunnel syndrome, helping them avoid surgery.

Snap has appointed Robert Downey Jr. as the honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer to promote its $2,195 Specs AR glasses. The role is honorary, and Snap did not disclose any figure regarding his compensation.

A Delaware jury found that Arm breached its architecture licence with Qualcomm but awarded Qualcomm only $2 in damages. Qualcomm designs its Snapdragon chips for phones and Windows laptops under that licence, and whether it can stop paying Arm royalties is now up to the judge.

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol passed 86.6% of COBOL migrations at low reasoning effort in two new tests that OpenAI itself built and ran, up from 5.4% for GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 39% less to run. The reported result at higher reasoning effort was not fully disclosed.

This represents a first for CRISPR, as powerful prime editing technology was shown to alter DNA directly within the human body.

Uber is rolling out ChatGPT Work, provided by OpenAI, to over 30,000 employees. This tool assists teams in researching, analyzing data, creating presentations, and completing complex workflows.

According to Nature Biotechnology, Recordanelles can capture transient gene expression in single human cells. No further details are provided in this item.

The Khronos Group has ratified OpenXR's "spatial containers", a standard way for several XR apps to share one space, and Google says Android XR will support them. Spatial containers are system-managed spaces that apps draw into, allowing OpenXR apps to run side by side.

According to leaker Jaykihn, Intel's next desktop and laptop processors, Nova Lake, will reportedly share the name Core Ultra 4000; Intel has not commented. Current Core Ultra chips use three-digit model numbers, so the expected next step would have been Core Ultra 400.

NASA conducted a test of RS-25 engine No. 10001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand near Stennis Space Center. The developmental engine was fired for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), matching the burn time of RS-25 engines during the launch of NASA’s SLS rocket.

Tesla's profit fell 43% as revenue stayed flat and expenses rose sharply while the company accelerated work on Optimus robots, AI, and autonomous driving. Tesla has started Optimus robot production in California.

ChatGPT is rolling out a 'locked chats' feature that hides individual conversations behind a 4-digit PIN. OpenAI says that if a user forgets the PIN and resets it, every locked chat is deleted, and its support staff cannot restore them. The feature is rolling out gradually.

Aerospace engineering researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's Grainger College of Engineering combined reinforcement learning with control theory in a new method that guarantees robot stability and improves tracking performance by up to 15% compared with existing methods, for wheeled, flying and six-legged robots.

Following its Early Access release on Quest, co-op space adventure Sol Protocol comes to PC VR on November 11 with crossplay support. A demo is available now for Steam Next Fest.