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Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is generally available in Gemini Enterprise. Google published the token conversion rates, which makes the cost of visual presence unusually easy to calculate — about $0.37 per minute of speech, roughly 21 times the audio it accompanies.
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Anthropic's new life sciences lab says ~950 Claude agents burned 21 hours and 210 million tokens to surface ART, a reverse transcriptase sitting next to a CRISPR-like repeat array. Its function is unestablished, the underlying enzyme was already known, and humans did every experiment.
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The new Opus lands at $4 and $20 per million input and output tokens, down from $5 and $25, with Anthropic claiming Fable 5.1-level results on most work. It is also the company's first model since Dario Amodei argued publicly for pacing the frontier.
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Nine mathematicians, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study, can assess OpenAI's results and go public with objections. The charter explicitly excludes advising the company on how fast to move — the exact complaint twenty-five Fields Medalists made ten days ago.
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Each side commits at least $1 billion over five years to put outside evaluators inside Anthropic with employee-level access. The evaluator is a consultancy that already sells Claude to enterprises.
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Anthropic published three measurements of how AI gets built inside its own walls: the share of its AI research Claude leads, how its 30,000-agent fleet is monitored, and how much compute goes to safety. The figures are the company's own, and nobody outside has audited them.
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Google shipped two audio-to-audio models to GA on Tuesday. The benchmark table is Google's own; the migration notes are the part that will cost you an afternoon.
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The president phoned into a conference on Jensen Huang's speakerphone to call the industry's safety turn a setup. Hours earlier, Microsoft's AI division had published a code of conduct that, as TechCrunch describes it, outranks anything a user or a task asks of its models.
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A threat report published today puts five distillation campaigns at roughly 190 million exchanges and alleges Moonshot and DeepSeek quietly relayed customer requests to Claude. The attribution is Anthropic's own, and the telemetry is not public.
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iOS 27 lands on 14 September with Siri AI in beta — English only, absent from mainland China and from the EU on iPhone, and with daily caps on the cloud half that Apple says will cost money later.
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OpenAI published a writeup and a Lean formalization for a finite-time blowup result on one of the seven Millennium Prize problems. Hours earlier, an NYU mathematician had accused it of building on his unpublished work.
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Google says more than 80 Cathay Pacific flights flew contrail-avoidance routes and cut those contrails' warming impact by about 40%. Google did the measuring, and a single corridor produced more than half of it.
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