Google undercut the voice agent market: 1.38 dollars an hour
Google DeepMind released two new audio models. Both are native speech-to-speech and priced at 1.38 dollars an hour, well under the rival offering.
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Is the voice on the phone really your relative? A family password against voice cloning
Voice cloning tools have made the scam call in a relative's voice easy. This guide covers the security word method and the limits of it.
Safety
Nvidia opened its supply chain to Palantir: 1.3 million parts in a single rack
Nvidia and Palantir announced a partnership bringing AI into supply chain planning. The first application area is Nvidia's own manufacturing network.
Companies
RubyGems published the tally of the May attack: more than 500 packages removed
RubyGems released new details about the attack on its package repository in May. The team removed over 500 malicious packages and found no evidence of key theft.
Safety
The industry asked for a brake, the White House called it an overreaction
Amodei's slowdown proposal produced an unexpected consensus in the industry. On the political side, Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson push back.
Policy
Astra earned triple running a vending business and beat the human baseline on drones
GPT-6 Astra stood out in two Andon Labs agent tests: it earned 15,515 dollars in a vending simulation and became the first model to beat the human drone baseline.
Models
Fewer instructions for a stronger model: a guide to trimming agent prompts
Long instructions written for older models now get in the way of more capable ones. This guide covers four entrenched mistakes and how to undo them.
Models
Apple designs a protein in one stage: SimpleDesign merges two steps
Apple researchers published SimpleDesign, which generates a protein's amino acid sequence and 3D structure together. It was trained on over 2 million pairs.
Research
A model's written reasoning step corresponds to a distinct pattern inside it
A new study shows the reasoning steps models write correspond to distinct internal patterns. The signal is strongest in the middle layers.
Research
Amodei laid out a three-step brake plan, and is taking the first step unilaterally
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a three-step plan for pacing AI development. The company is taking the first step unilaterally, now.
Policy
Nvidia wants to put up to 10 billion dollars into Anthropic's IPO
According to Reuters, Nvidia is in talks to invest up to 10 billion dollars in Anthropic's IPO. At a 2 trillion dollar valuation it would be the largest in history.
Companies
Catching personal data in a training set: how a model-agnostic detector is built
Fine-tuning a model on your own text also teaches it the personal data in that text. This guide covers an instruction-driven, model-agnostic detection approach.
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