Decagon introduced Voice 3, its voice AI agent for customer calls, and Chord, the first speech model from Decagon Labs, at the company's Decagon Dialogues 2026 event on October 1, 2026, saying the agent supports more than 70 languages and runs on a new duplex architecture. In the Voice 3 announcement, authored by Product Manager…

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Decagon introduced four products at its Decagon Dialogues 2026 event on October 1, 2026: Voice 3 with a new speech model called Chord, Personal Agent Gateway with a companion authorization protocol, Agent Modules, and the Duet Apprentice beta. Co-founder and CEO Jesse Zhang and co-founder and President Ashwin Sreenivas detailed the releases in a company…

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Sony Interactive Entertainment on October 1, 2026 unveiled Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new performance tier of AI upscaling for the standard PlayStation 5, in an official PlayStation Blog announcement. Developed through the company's Project Amethyst graphics collaboration with AMD, the library debuted the same day in patches for Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of…

Anthropic on October 1, 2026 published Claude-shaped science, a guest post by theoretical physicist Matthew Schwartz describing BootLoops, an open-source toolkit he built with Claude for exact calculations in quantitative science. BootLoops 1.0 was released publicly the same day under the MIT License. From Scattering Amplitudes to a General Harness Schwartz writes that he began…

Leo Brunnick, Chief Product Officer at Cloudera, is a veteran technology executive and entrepreneur with more than three decades of experience building and scaling software, digital media, and enterprise technology organizations. At Cloudera, he leads Product Management, Engineering, and Customer Support, overseeing the company’s product and technology direction as it expands its data and AI…

Cohere has released Embed 5, a new embedding model family. It targets enterprise search, RAG, and agentic retrieval. The model family ships in 2 tiers. Embed 5 Pro targets maximum retrieval quality. Embed 5 Fast targets latency and cost on the live query path. Both accept text, images, and fused text plus image inputs. Both…

A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC…

Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai announced a partnership on October 1, 2026, to deliver a production-grade, on-premises voice AI stack that runs Smallest.ai's Lightning V2 real-time text-to-speech model natively on Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole servers. Tenstorrent, an AI compute company, and Smallest.ai, an AI research lab building real-time voice AI infrastructure, said the joint stack is designed to…