Google's New Voice Models Talk While They Think - and Cost Less
Gemini 3.8 Live runs tool calls without pausing the conversation, tops the Speech to Speech index at 82.6, and bills below GPT-Live-1 Astra.
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100 DeepMind Agents Split Into Cheaters and Whistleblowers
DeepMind's 100-agent research swarm invented a Lean grader exploit that cleared 34 conjectures in 27 minutes, then a quarter of the agents organized to stop it.
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DeepMind Precomputed 9 Billion DNA Variants Into a 1-Petabyte Atlas
The bottleneck in reading the human genome has never been sequencing it — it has been working out which of the roughly 9 billion possible single-letter changes...
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Inherent's Faraday Agent Replicates Research Papers on a 27B Model
London lab Inherent says its Faraday agent, running on a 27B-parameter model, beat Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at reproducing published scientific findings.
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Anthropic Details How Claude's Invisible Text Watermarks Work
Claude's text watermark uses a SynthID-Text variant that alters token randomness, not the words themselves, and Anthropic is candid about its limits.
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Gemini 3.7 Flash Arrives Three Weeks After 3.6 - At Half the Price
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash lands three weeks after 3.6 Flash, scoring 65.3% on DeepSWE and shipping at half the price through the end of 2026.
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Google Reshuffles Its Entire AI Org as Jeff Dean Exits and Hassabis Steps Back
Demis Hassabis moves to chair, Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over Google DeepMind, and Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to found Discovery Loop.
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DeepMind's WeatherNext Buys Forecasters a Full Extra Day on Cyclone Warnings
Google DeepMind's WeatherNext gains over a day of cyclone forecast lead time, published in Nature with the models released open source.
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