Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Reasons Out Loud While It Talks
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two voice models that reason mid-conversation and top a new speech-to-speech index.
By TPW Editorial7 min read
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DeepSeek's Cheaper V4.1-Flash Beats Its Own Pro Model on Agent Tasks
DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash packs a new 552B architecture and aggressive pricing, and it outruns the company's own Pro tier on many agent and coding benchmarks.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
GPT-6 Astra Is OpenAI's Most Capable Model, and Its Hardest to Inspect
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra tops coding, agent, and security benchmarks, and it's the first model the company rates 'Critical' for cyber capability. The catch: it's also harder to monitor from the inside.
By TPW Editorial4 min read
The Week in AI: 5 Things You Missed
Open-weight models closed the gap, on-device agents got real, and the platform war turned into a land grab. The AI news that actually mattered this week.
By TPW Editorial18 min read