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Stephanie Palazzolo @ The Information · 03/05/2026 10:00 EDT

OpenAI Develops a ‘Bidirectional’ Audio Model to Boost Voice Assistants

Wow, what a day of news! In case you missed it (which would have been difficult), we broke a number of stories yesterday regarding OpenAI and Anthropic. Most memorable was this piece about the fiery, 1,600-word memo Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei penned to staff last Friday criticizing the OpenAI-Pentagon deal. (You can check out the full memo here for some of the fun phrases Amodei uses.) Though the memo garnered some support for Anthropic on social media, it could hurt Anthropic’s efforts to use the Pentagon.

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