xAI launched its Grok Voice Agent API on Monday: 5 voices, 20+ languages, $0.05 per minute of connection time, with live data search and tool-calling already built in. They also released a Grok TTS API with inline emotion control, supporting MP3, WAV, PCM, and telephony formats. This is a direct swing at ElevenLabs and OpenAI's Realtime API, with pricing clearly designed to win the developer layer. (xAI)

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster sued OpenAI in New York federal court, claiming ChatGPT was trained on nearly 100,000 of their articles without permission and continues to reproduce them verbatim in its responses. They're also bringing a Lanham Act trademark claim alleging that when ChatGPT fabricates answers and attributes them to Britannica, it damages the publisher's reputation. OpenAI said it trains on "publicly available data, grounded in fair use." (TechCrunch)

Google, Amazon, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, Adobe, Pinterest, Target, Levi's Strauss, and Match Group signed a global anti-scam accord ahead of the UN Global Fraud Summit in Austria, pledging to share threat intelligence on criminal networks, deploy AI fraud detection tools, and require stronger verification for financial transactions on their platforms. The Global Anti-Scam Alliance also launched Scam.org, an OpenAI-powered hub for scam education and reporting available in 50+ languages. (Axios)

OpenAI has reversed course on building its own data centers and is now renting capacity from AWS, Google Cloud, AMD, and Cerebras, according to The Information. The company reorganized its infrastructure org into three groups and named new leaders, including former Intel AI chief Sachin Katti. Its compute spending target was cut from $1.4 trillion to $600 billion through 2030 (still enormous, but a major pullback) from the ambitions behind the original Stargate announcement. (Winbuzzer)

Alibaba is preparing to launch a Qwen-powered enterprise AI agent this week that can operate computers, browsers, and cloud servers autonomously, according to Bloomberg. The product was built by the DingTalk team and is designed to compete with Anthropic's Claude Cowork and other agentic tools in a market where Baidu, ByteDance, and Tencent are all racing for the same enterprise customers. Security features are built in from day one. (Silicon Republic)

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