Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Speech-to-Text Model

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 launches on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic says it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work, and costs roughly 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks.

Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5 as default Haiku model in Claude Code v2.1.293

Claude Code v2.1.293 adds Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), now the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API, with 1M context and pricing of $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens, rising to $0.50/$2.50 for prompts over 100K tokens. The release also adds agentType to subagentStatusLine and isDeferred to tool registration.

Liquid AI releases d1-3B and d1-omni-600M open decision models for edge

Liquid AI released two open decision models: d1-3B and experimental d1-omni-600M. d1-3B scores 48.57 on Decision Index 0.2.1, topping sub-10B models and Decider 35B-A3B, and answers in 16 ms on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor. d1-omni-600M handles text with image or audio. Both are built on Liquid Foundation Models.

TII Releases Falcon ASR Speech Recognition Model

TII, the institute behind the Falcon language models, introduced Falcon ASR on Hugging Face. The blog post announces the automatic speech recognition model, but the provided source contains no further details on architecture, training data, languages, or benchmark results.

OpenAI adds College Planner and study tools to ChatGPT for Teens

OpenAI is bringing a College Planner to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications. The update also adds flashcards and quizzes, plus a teen AI council. The tools are aimed at helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI.