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David Zaslav thinks HBO Max is ‘way underpriced’

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Everyone’s favorite CEO, Warner Bros. Discovery head David Zaslav, thinks HBO Max is ripe for a price hike. Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference (doesn’t that sound like a fun time?) Zaslav argued that his company’s premium output can command a premium price. “The fact that this is quality — and that’s […]

OpenAI Adds Full MCP Tool Support in ChatGPT Developer Mode: Enabling Write Actions, Workflow Automation, and Enterprise Integrations

OpenAI has just introduced a major upgrade to ChatGPT’s developer mode by adding full support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools. Until now, MCP integrations inside ChatGPT were limited to search and fetch operations—essentially read-only. With this update, MCP connectors can perform write actions, which means developers can now directly update systems, trigger workflows, and […] The post OpenAI Adds Full MCP Tool Support in ChatGPT Developer Mode: Enabling Write Actions, Workflow Automation, and Enterprise Integrations appeared first on MarkTechPost.

OpenAI’s gpt-realtime Enables Production-Ready Voice Agents with End-to-End Speech Processing

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OpenAI launched gpt-realtime and the Realtime API, enabling production-ready AI voice agents with end-to-end speech processing, lower latency, and natural speech delivery. New features include SIP phone support, image input, MCP server integration, and improved safeguards. Early adopters like Zillow and T-Mobile are testing real-time customer service and search use cases. By Hien Luu

What are Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Models? Top Open-Source OCR Models

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of turning images that contain text—such as scanned pages, receipts, or photographs—into machine-readable text. What began as brittle rule-based systems has evolved into a rich ecosystem of neural architectures and vision-language models capable…

Meet mmBERT: An Encoder-only Language Model Pretrained on 3T Tokens of Multilingual Text in over 1800 Languages and 2–4× Faster than Previous Models

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Why was a new multilingual encoder needed? XLM-RoBERTa (XLM-R) has dominated multilingual NLP for more than 5 years, an unusually long reign in AI research. While encoder-only models like BERT and RoBERTa were central to early progress, most research energy shifted toward decoder-based generative models. Encoders, however, remain more efficient and often outperform decoders on […] The post Meet mmBERT: An Encoder-only Language Model Pretrained on 3T Tokens of Multilingual Text in over 1800 Languages and 2–4× Faster than Previous Models appeared first on MarkTechPost.