Hollywood is done asking nicely. First Netflix, then Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, and Sony. Now the MPA itself. Hollywood is closing ranks against Bytedance’s Seedance 2.0, arguing the AI video generator was built on stolen content. The API launch might already be on hold.
Newsguard tested whether ChatGPT Voice (OpenAI), Gemini Live (Google), and Alexa+ (Amazon) repeat false claims in realistic-sounding audio, the kind easily shared on social media to spread disinformation.
Researchers tested 20 false claims across health, US politics, world news, and foreign disinformation, each with a neutral question, a leading question, and a malicious prompt to write a radio script with the false information. ChatGPT repeated falsehoods 22 percent of the time, Gemini 23 percent. With malicious prompts, those numbers jumped to 50 and 45 percent, respectively.
Amazon's Alexa+ was the clear outlier. It rejected every single false claim. Amazon Vice President Leila Rouhi says Alexa+ pulls from trusted news sources like AP and Reuters. OpenAI declined to comment, and Google didn't respond to two requests for comment. Full details on the methodology are available on Newsguardtech.com.
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index four points ahead of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6, at less than half the cost. The model ranks first in six of ten categories, including agent-based coding, knowledge, scientific reasoning, and physics. Its hallucination rate dropped 38 percentage points compared to Gemini 3 Pro, which struggled in that area. The index rolls ten benchmarks into one overall score.
Running the full index test with Gemini costs $892, compared to $2,304 for GPT-5.2 and $2,486 for Claude Opus 4.6. Gemini used just 57 million tokens, well under GPT-5.2's 130 million. Open-source models like GLM-5 come in even cheaper at $547. When it comes to real-world agent tasks, though, Gemini 3.1 Pro still falls behind Claude Sonnet 4.6, Opus 4.6, and GPT-5.2.
As always, benchmarks only go so far. In our own internal fact-checking test, 3.1 Pro does significantly worse than Opus 4.6 or GPT-5.2, verifying only about a quarter of statements in initial tests, even fewer than Gemini 3 Pro, which was already weak here. So find your own benchmarks.
Sam Altman says AGI is “pretty close” and superintelligence “not that far off.” Speaking at the Express Adda event in India, the OpenAI CEO suggested the company’s internal models are already accelerating its own research and that “the world is not prepared” for what’s coming.
Anthropic is rolling out new desktop features for Claude Code that take development automation a step further. The AI can now spin up development servers and display running web apps right in the interface, spot errors, and fix them on its own.
There's also a new code review feature that checks changes and drops comments directly in the diff view. For GitHub projects, Claude keeps an eye on pull requests in the background, automatically fixes CI errors, and can even merge PRs on its own once tests pass. That means developers can move on to new tasks while Claude Code works through open PRs behind the scenes. Sessions pick up seamlessly across CLI, desktop, web, and mobile. All updates are available now.
OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected to land between $200 and $300. According to The Information, the device packs a camera and facial recognition for purchases. It uses video to scan its surroundings and serve up proactive suggestions, like telling you to hit the sack early before a big meeting. A court filing from Vice President Peter Welinder puts the earliest ship date at February 2027.
The company's 200-plus-person hardware team is reportedly building out a whole product lineup. That includes smart glasses (mass production no earlier than 2028), prototypes of a smart lamp with no clear launch timeline, and an audio wearable called "Sweetpea" that's gunning for AirPods. There's also a stylus called "Gumdrop" in the works. Foxconn is reportedly handling manufacturing for the hardware lineup.
CEO Sam Altman has teased at least one device reveal for 2026. OpenAI isn't alone in this race. Companies like Meta and Apple are making similar bets on AI hardware as the next big computing platform.
