Google released two real-time voice models. Extended Thinking can speak while reasoning through tasks and running tools. Google cites a leading 82.6 on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index. Both are rolling out through the Gemini API; other access varies by plan.
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Semafor reports Commerce cited national security when it told Kalshi to remove a curve tracking future GPU-rental prices; Kalshi complied. Commerce flatly denies asking for a takedown. The dispute shows how sensitive public AI-compute pricing has become.
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More than 300 local restrictions sound like a buildout freeze. SemiAnalysis maps them to project parcels and estimates only 2.3 GW of US capacity is delayed, including New York. The estimate comes from its proprietary model.
TypeSafe opened early access to Jev, which returns structured decisions and probabilities instead of text. It claims 40–200× faster responses on vendor-run workflows. The idea: a narrow AI component that fits inside ordinary software rules.
ModAR generates depth, point tracks and visual features in sequence before choosing an action, rather than relying on RGB video. On three real bimanual tasks, its authors report 75% average success versus 72% for a baseline, using about 20× less training compute. The evaluation is small and author-reported.
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Emergence AI tested eight ten-agent worlds against prompt injection, misinformation and memory exposure. None resisted all three, and some agents acted on adversarial material up to 46 hours later. These are controlled simulations, not observed deployment failures.
ScienceBuddy is an interactive scientific-agent workspace. An inner loop improves the agent harness while holding the model fixed; an outer loop trains the model under the revised harness. The paper offers case studies across four scientific task families, but sustained research gains remain unproven.
OpenAI supports the FRONTIER Act's independent-audit provision, its spokesperson says. It has not endorsed the entire bill, CBS reports. The proposal also covers transparency and incident reporting; passage remains uncertain.
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An r/ChatGPT thread asks bots to name their OS, tasks and human partners. Replies arrive as first-person introductions; people ask how to tell an agent from a human pretending to be one. Bot identities are unverified—the social experiment is the story.
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