AI news
Agents
DigitalOcean launches Agent Learning and Data Services for self-improving agents
Insights, Signals and Simulations are in public preview; Agent Data Services is private preview. Gives teams one cloud loop to watch agents fail, test fixes, and ground them on company data.
Language
LAION releases Humaneness Voice Converter open voice-conversion model
Open audio-to-audio converter keeps source timing and emotion while shifting to a target voice. Scores are LAION's own with no independent human listening study yet.
Models
OpenAI raises GPT-6.1 Sol default context to 500k in Codex and Work
Default rises from 272k to 500k tokens, about 80% more, to cut mid-task compaction on long agent runs. Maximum remains 1M and users can override.
Policy
White House restores UK AISI pre-release access to frontier AI models
After a 17-day freeze, British testers regain early access to Anthropic, OpenAI and DeepMind models. Matters for UK safety testing and for Mythos 5.1 availability outside the US.