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OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers: WSJ Names Them and a METR Link Emerges

The Wall Street Journal has named the three researchers OpenAI dismissed for allegedly sharing confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation: Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni. One of them was OpenAI’s technical contact for METR’s independent investigation of the Hugging Face hack. We set out who the three are, what the METR link does and does not show, how outside investigators get access to a lab, and what the case means for oversight and for businesses using OpenAI.

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Musk’s AI Chatbot Grok Reportedly Encouraged Trump to Capture Venezuela’s President

TIME reports that Donald Trump spent hours asking Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot questions in December 2025, including how Venezuelans would react if the US captured Nicolas Maduro. We set out exactly what TIME reported and how the story changed in the retelling, what Venezuelans actually thought, how Grok is used by the Pentagon, and what the episode teaches about AI in decision-making.

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xAI Rolls Out Grok 4.7 as Base Model and Introduces Proactive Primary Bot

SpaceXAI has given Grok Bot a proactive Primary Bot that spots work and offers to handle it before you ask, and Grok 4.7 is now the base model across the Fast, Expert, Build and Heavy modes in the Grok apps. We cover how Primary Bot works, what free suggestions really cover, Grok 4.7’s benchmark gains, what is still undocumented, and what it means for businesses.

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AI Music Maker Suno Now Generates Spoken Words

Suno has launched Speech in public beta, a model that generates spoken-word audio and original background music together in one track. We explain how Simple and Advanced modes work, what Suno has and has not said about credits, voices and rights, why the AI music company is diversifying, and what it means for businesses using synthetic voice.

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Onepin AI Voice Production Agent Supports 10 Languages for Large-Scale Projects

Onepin, from speech-evaluation company Podonos, is an AI voice production agent that routes each line of a script to a text-to-speech engine, scores it for naturalness, clarity and pronunciation, and fixes what fails, in 10 languages. We explain the pipeline, the pricing per validated hour, where Onepin’s own claims disagree, who it suits and what UK teams should check.

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OpenAI Cuts Ties With 3 Safety Researchers, WSJ Reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team who allegedly shared confidential information with an outside AI safety organisation, The Wall Street Journal reported on 1 October 2026. We set out what is known and not known, the 2024 precedents, the run of agent incidents behind the story, what whistleblower law protects in California and the UK, and what it means for businesses using OpenAI.

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Microsoft Adds MAI-Transcribe and MAI-Voice Models to MAI Playground

Microsoft has added three audio models to MAI Playground: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription and the MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash text-to-speech models, plus a voice assistant demo called Chatter. We cover what each model does and costs, how the streaming model ranks on Artificial Analysis, how fast Microsoft’s voice line has moved and what UK developers should check.

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Tavus Launches Limited Preview of Griffin Lite and Updates Developer Platform

Tavus has opened a limited research preview of Griffin Lite, a real-time video AI that sees, hears and talks back with a generated face and voice. In Tavus’s study, 26 of 54 people thought it was human after a one-minute call. We explain how it works, what the NVIDIA VideoFDB scores show, what changed on the Tavus developer platform in September, and the deception risks Tavus itself flags.

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Arceus Automates Legal Contract Reviews for Startups via Slack

Arceus, a San Francisco law firm that pairs licensed attorneys with AI agents, has raised funding led by Greycroft, bringing its total to $17 million. Startups send contracts from Slack, an agent prepares the review and a lawyer signs it off at a flat fee. We explain how it works, what it costs, how it compares with Crosby and other AI-native firms, and what UK companies should check.

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Wallet Feature Spotted in ChatGPT App as World App Rebrands

A Wallet entry marked Coming soon has appeared in the ChatGPT app, beside Passwords and Finances, on the same day World App was renamed World Money. We set out what was spotted, what August code showed about card enrolment for agent tasks, why a ChatGPT Wallet fits Dots, what World Money is, and whether the two are linked.

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