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1. Model

   ElevenLabs launches Eleven v4 for text-to-speech (opens the original source in a new tab)

   ElevenLabs calls Eleven v4 its most emotive voice model yet, with a faster Turbo version for voice agents. Both are available now in its apps and through its API.

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2. Open source

   Cloudflare releases Clef, open decision models (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Clef and Clef-flash are decision models: instead of writing text, they pick from fixed choices and give a probability for each. Cloudflare hosts them and publishes them on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.

   Cloudflare · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

3. Open source

   Ai2 open-sources AstaBrief, a small model that writes cited science reports (opens the original source in a new tab)

   AstaBrief 8B turns a research question and excerpts from papers into a report with citations. Ai2 is releasing the weights and training data, so institutions can run it on their own servers.

   Ai2 · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

4. Research

   Google's next system for learning privately from phones (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Federated learning trains a model on data that stays spread across many people's devices. Google's new version uses secure, checkable hardware zones for stronger privacy, and Gboard already uses it.

   Google Research · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)