This week's roundup includes news from OpenAI with new speed capabilities, Functionalize's MCP and Java SE pricing.

Microsoft AI's MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis with 2.5% WER at 0.13s, 60 languages, $0.54 per hour.

Turning to the Renaissance Java benchmarks, OpenJDK 27 was again delivering the best performance with a nice look at the Java performance over the past decade. For the Renaissance benchmarks, OpenJDK ...

Applied Brain Research (ABR) today announced general availability of the ABR SDK and the Niagara ASR and Nith TTS model families, a production toolkit for building real-time voice interfaces that run ...

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking, new voice AI models for low-latency conversations and deeper real-time reasoning.

New offering gives DSPs a direct path to premium, contextually enriched CTV inventory Wurl, a leader in the streaming TV industry, today announced the launch of its Content Intelligence Platform, a ...

This week’s streaming premiere slate features an interesting and eclectic assortment of titles. Hulu kicked off its week with the premiere of FX’s new, rap-driven “Snowfall” spin-off and followed it ...

Tiledmedia has launched Fabric, a new video processing platform the company says can combine raw video feeds, ads, graphics and data into finished live streams. The company said the platform is ...

It's beginning to feel unfair to discuss and analyze eight-episode streaming series in the same context we once critiqued 22-episode broadcast TV shows. There's a lot of space between those two ...

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The “Love Island USA” season 8 reunion is finally here, which means fans get another trip back to the villa before everything comes to a close. Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, we’ll get to catch up on how ...

Mubi has acquired international rights to JAŸ-Z In 8, the forthcoming eight-part documentary series featuring the legendary rapper in conversation with veteran producer Rick Rubin. Executive-produced ...