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Nuance Labs has launched Emma, its first AI persona designed to mimic natural face-to-face conversation using facial expressions, not just voice. Emma nods, smiles, and raises an eyebrow at rates similar to human listeners, and her reply timing matches real people 89% of the time across 1,785 test questions. Unlike most AI, Emma will disagree with users and has distinct opinions. Known limitations include occasional mistimed interruptions and lip-sync glitches on poor connections. Emma is available now via API.

Meta has launched Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient multimodal AI model, designed for high-volume agentic tasks including coding subtasks, tool calls, and document analysis. Available in Muse Code and via Meta Model API, it supports text, image, audio, and video inputs. Priced at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens, it scores 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and outperforms Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna on AutomationBench-AA and Terminal-Bench 4.0.

OpenAI has deployed Control Room, a centralized safety system that can halt rogue AI model workloads across its research infrastructure within 35 seconds of a decision to intervene. The system integrates with every research inference workload, including agentic sampling, model training, and evaluation jobs. It requires all agentic workloads to have an approved safety case and operates at the inference layer for reliability. Critically, it fails closed, meaning if Control Room itself goes down, all inference requests are denied until it recovers.

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 successfully designed three working electronic prototypes from scratch in collaboration with Diode Computers: a USB speakerphone, a voice-assistant hub, and a handheld virtual pet. With minimal prompting, Claude wrote specifications, drew schematics, laid out circuit boards, designed 3D-printable enclosures, wrote firmware, and prepared parts lists. Human engineers built the prototypes without any circuitry fixes. Fable 5.2 scored 69% on Diode's PCB Gym benchmark, up from 25% for Fable 5, and 83.5% on BenchCAD 2.1, nearly double its predecessor.

ChatGPT Enterprise is now available on AWS Marketplace, giving organizations a simpler way to discover, buy, and manage the product using existing AWS purchasing relationships and apply eligible spend toward AWS commitments. AWS customers receive the same models, features, and functionality as direct OpenAI customers, with new features released simultaneously. Eligible customers can also access ChatGPT for Healthcare and ChatGPT for Financial Services. The listing complements OpenAI models already available in Amazon Bedrock.

Google Maps Platform is now accessible directly within Google AI Studio, letting developers build location-aware apps without a credit card or complex setup. Users can prompt Gemini with real-world app ideas, such as 3D city tours, route planners, or air quality monitors, and AI Studio automatically configures the Maps API keys. A free sandbox tier offers 100 API calls per day, per API, with daily resets. Developers can later link a Google Cloud billing account to unlock production-grade quotas.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has launched Spacefast, a new platform for deploying vibe-coded websites and apps. Spacefast provides infrastructure including databases, authentication, file uploads, emails, and analytics. Unlike competitors Lovable and Emergent, Spacefast lets users connect their own AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or Grok Bot, or link a Git repository. The product is led by Batuhan İçöz and was soft-launched in September. Automattic plans to add WordPress integration, web analytics, and WooCommerce e-commerce features.

ElevenLabs has launched ElevenAgents Campaign Manager, a tool for running AI-powered outbound call campaigns across sales, retention, patient care, collections, and recruiting. The system intelligently follows up with contacts over time, carries context between calls, handles voicemail detection, and respects do-not-call requests automatically. It supports phone calls, WhatsApp voice, and WhatsApp messaging, with email and SMS coming soon. The AA Ireland's CTO reported reaching 100% of daily leads, up from 50-60%, using the platform.