Inworld Acquires Voice AI Startup Ultravox to Fix AI’s Biggest Conversation Problem: Interruptions
Inworld has acquired Ultravox, the Seattle voice AI startup formerly known as Fixie, for an undisclosed sum to improve real-time voice conversations.
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JERA, Dell and RHAELM Plan a $15 Billion AI Data Center Next to a Power Plant in Chiba
JERA, Dell Technologies and RHAELM have signed an MOU for a 400MW AI data center at the Chiba Thermal Power Station, with capital deployment above $15B.
Instinct Raises $1B at $10B Valuation for a Personal AI Agent That Actually Does Things
San Francisco startup Instinct announced a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation for a personal AI agent that finishes tasks instead of just answering questions.
GitHub Copilot Studio Turns AI Coding Agents Into Click-Built Workflows
GitHub’s Copilot Studio, launched in late September, chains Copilot agents into event-triggered visual workflows — no Actions YAML required.
Kling 4.0 Opens Early Access With Native 30-Second Video
Kling 4.0 entered early access on September 30 with native 30-second clips, 10 keyframe images, 15 reference assets, and two-channel stereo sound.
GPT Image 2.5 Arrives in Two Flavors: Flare and Sunburst
OpenAI’s GPT Image 2.5 splits into Flare and Sunburst tiers — faster by default, slower and more precise when it counts. Same token pricing.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 552B Parameters, MIT License, and a Price War
DeepSeek’s V4.1 Flash pairs a 552B-parameter MoE with an MIT license and 1M-token context. What the open-weights efficiency release changes.
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon Is Here: Longer Answers, Tighter Security Focus
Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon on September 30 — its newest frontier model, with dramatically longer outputs and cybersecurity-first early access.
LLM Quantization Explained Hands-On: GGUF with llama.cpp and AWQ with llm-compressor
Quantize LLMs hands-on: convert models to GGUF and quantize with llama.cpp, then produce AWQ checkpoints with llm-compressor for fast GPU serving.
Automate Document Processing with Local AI: Parse Invoices with Docling and Ollama
Automate invoice processing locally: parse PDFs with Docling, extract structured fields with Ollama into JSON, and write clean rows to CSV — no cloud APIs.