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Apple researchers have identified a fundamental limitation in speech-adapted large language models: they consistently underperform their text-based counterparts on language understanding tasks. The team terms this the 'text-speech understanding gap' and documents that speech-adapted LLMs lag behind both their original text versions and cascaded speech-to-text pipelines.

A new Google DeepMind research paper on AI agent delegation recommends that AI systems occasionally assign humans tasks they could easily complete themselves. The goal: preventing workforce skill atrophy as automation increases.