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xAI has rolled out three new features for its Grok voice assistant: Grok Vision, multilingual audio output, and real-time search in voice mode. According to the company, all three features are now available to iOS users. Android users with a SuperGrok subscription also get access to multilingual audio and real-time search. Grok Vision allows the assistant to provide live commentary on whatever appears on the smartphone screen. Google and OpenAI have been offering similar features for some time, using language models to interpret on-screen content in real time. The update is part of a broader push by xAI—Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up—to compete with companies like Google and OpenAI. xAI recently introduced a new reasoning model called Grok 3 mini.

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Articles from the Washington Post will now appear in ChatGPT responses under a new content licensing agreement between the two companies. The integration includes coverage of politics, world affairs, business, and technology, with direct source citations provided in answers. "We’re all in on meeting our audiences where they are," said Peter Elkins-Williams, director of global partnerships at The Washington Post. The partnership follows a broader trend of exclusive licensing deals between media outlets and AI companies. Here's my usual caveat: Such arrangements can reduce media diversity, posing risks to democratic discourse and the open Web. Journalism scholar Jeff Jarvis has called these payments to publishers "pure lobbying."

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