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Built on Qwen3.5-0.8B, BotPsy runs on-device for calendar, email, search, travel and settings, and beats a model 2.5x its size on five of six tool-use benchmarks. Its makers are blunt about limits: 31% unsafe responses under prompt injection and no sensitive uses.
Fish Audio is betting voice agents fail on timing, not speed, and Live 3 tries to learn when to talk from real conversations. The pitch is right; the proof isn't published yet.
Nvidia’s COP31 post profiles AIRECO, EverestLabs AI, Greyparrot and reverse.fashion, which use cameras and robots to identify and pull valuable material off fast belts. The payoffs they report are physical and measurable, but self-reported, and the labor and data questions matter.
JioStar built a multilingual conversational assistant into JioHotstar on the OpenAI API in about eight weeks ahead of a cricket tournament. Chief architect Vijay Seshadri’s lessons, guardrails first, layered evals and quality monitoring, matter more than the vendor framing.
OpenAI bought Odessia, a five-month-old AI travel agent from Sonder founder Francis Davidson, and shut it down. The real prize is a travel-industry founder who builds with AI agents, and the move raises questions for Booking.com, Expedia and KAYAK.
Microsoft researchers show a model can pass standard evals, then emit a command that runs attacker code when a hidden trigger appears, such as the date reaching 2027. No training is needed, only write access to the weights. Provenance, not testing, is the defense.
New York opened registration for its frontier AI law, with a January 1, 2027 deadline for labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. The incident-reporting window is far tighter than California’s, and that clock is the real test of whether the law has teeth.
Anthropic’s S-1 shows each co-founder selling 3,378,378 shares, just shy of $250 million at the $74 midpoint. Afterward each holds about 3.2% of Class A and one supervoting Class F share, giving the group 51.1% of votes with no single dominant founder.
Experts told The Verge that China trails the U.S. by months, so chip allocation and Nvidia’s leadership bandwidth are strategic. Companies linked to Alice Huang reportedly enabled at least $7 billion in chip sales to China, and the irony is that the scandal may produce the export-control law Nvidia fought.
A Physical Superintelligence researcher proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture with early access to Fable 5.2, autoformalized in Lean. Scott Aaronson believes it is correct. PSI’s bet is that harnesses, not models, are the product, and its revenue today comes from data center simulation.
Google’s November drop brings Gemini Intelligence to the motorola signature 27 and Pixel 10 phones, adds Create My Widget and Device Assistance, and expands cross-app task automation to the UK, India and Japan. The help is real; so is the depth of access.
OpenAI’s beta Business Hub offers verified profiles, product updates, optional business agents and basic insights like mentions and clicks. It is a sober step after in-chat checkout was retired, but blurs what ChatGPT found versus what a company told it.