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Tavus's Griffin passed as human in 48% of video calls
Tavus unveiled Griffin, a model for face-to-face interaction. In one-minute video calls, 48% of participants believed they had talked to a real person.
Read News · Models 1 min readAnthropic measures open model GLM-5.3's cyber offence skills
Anthropic says Zhipu's GLM-5.3 nearly matches Claude Mythos Preview at writing exploits, and its safeguards fail 64-100% of the time.
Read News · Science 1 min readAnthropic: robots can do most physical tasks but cost too much
Covering about 900 jobs and 19,000 tasks, the analysis finds robots can do three quarters of physical tasks but are cheaper than people on just 0.3%.
Read News · Payments 1 min readBIST 100 falls 2.79%, drops below 12,000
The selloff triggered by the fund investigation continued on Wednesday. The index lost 343 points to close at 11,947.
Read News · Payments 1 min readWeak US data cuts rate-hike bets, bitcoin steadies
With consumer confidence at its lowest since 2014, odds of an October Fed hike fell from 71% to 52%. Bitcoin trades around $83,600.
Read News · Infrastructure 1 min readCoreWeave puts Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 into production
The first customer is Cognition, maker of Devin, which measured up to 4.8x higher token throughput per GPU than the previous generation.
Read News · Science 1 min readDeepMind watermarks proteins designed by AI
Published in Nature, SynthID Bio hides a signature in a protein’s sequence and 3D structure. Watermarked proteins kept their function in lab tests.
Read News · Funding 1 min readElevenLabs reaches $22 billion in employee share sale
The voice AI company doubled its valuation since February in a $300 million employee share sale. Enterprises bring 55% of revenue.
Read News · Policy 1 min readFTC opens probe into OpenAI and Anthropic over rogue agents
The US Federal Trade Commission is examining consumer harm from AI agents. The evaluation group METR is also covered.
Read News · Models 1 min readGoogle unveils Gemini 4 Argon after months of delay
Argon, the first top-tier Gemini 4 model, can output up to 1 million tokens in one go. Google has dropped plans to ship Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Read News · Infrastructure 1 min readMeta cut $3.9 billion in tax by calling data centers experiments
Meta told US tax authorities its AI data centers were experimental pilot models. The research credit cut its 2025 tax bill by $3.9 billion.
Read News · Funding 1 min readOpenAI seeks $30 billion round instead of an IPO
Talks could value OpenAI at about $1.4 trillion. Sam Altman said this is the wrong year to go public.
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