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This app will sit in your Google Meet call so you don't have to
MeetTwins sends an AI avatar to your video meetings, answers pre-approved questions on your behalf, and emails you a summary after. Here is what it does, and what it definitely cannot fix.
The Better AI Behaves, the Worse It Writes
Researchers have found a sharp tension at the heart of AI language tools: the better you control what a chatbot says, the more likely it is to start talking gibberish. Here's what that means for the apps you use every day.
Google DeepMind puts an invisible watermark inside lab-grown proteins
SynthID Bio hides a detectable signal inside AI-designed proteins and 3D structures without breaking what the molecule is supposed to do.
Hugging Face Can Now Rank Every Open-Source Voice AI in Hours
More than 8,000 text-to-speech models exist, but testing them has always taken too long. A new automated scorecard changes that, and puts open-source voices on equal footing for the first time.
Google tests a Buy button inside Gemini for Flipkart shoppers in India
A small trial lets Indian users purchase electronics directly through Google's AI without leaving the chat. A broader rollout is planned for October, timed to India's festive shopping season.
AI's Debt Binge Gets More Expensive as Bond Yields Hit Near 20-Year Highs
A spike in US Treasury yields is raising the cost of the trillions of dollars in borrowing that powers the AI infrastructure build. Smaller players are already feeling the squeeze.
Asimov's Robot Laws Are Not Enough. Here Is What Researchers Think We Actually Need.
Anthropic's CEO has called for slowing AI development, more than 2,500 economists and technologists have signed an open letter demanding action, and a U.S. senator has proposed sweeping legislation. The fiction that guided the field for 80 years is no longer adequate.
Nvidia's Kumo Tabular Reads a Spreadsheet Cold and Beats Every Tuned Model Doing It
A new open AI model from Nvidia makes predictions on business data tables without any training on your data, no setup, and no specialist required, and it just topped every major leaderboard.
When AI talks to AI, how much meaning survives the journey?
New research from Apple ML Research ran a controlled test to see how well language models pass precise information through plain words. The results expose a gap that matters for anyone building AI systems that need to work together.
When AI Gets the Fact Right but Credits the Wrong Source, a New Tool Catches It
ProvenanceGuard targets a blind spot in AI fact-checking: a claim can be true and still be falsely attributed. In medical tests, it caught 138 of 139 claims that should have been blocked.
When Should a Company Stop Renting AI and Start Owning It?
Buying AI by the request works fine for experiments. Once it becomes a daily business operation, the maths can flip completely.
OpenAI Coverage Fell 83% in Our Feed Last Week. Here Is What That Actually Tells Us.
AI2Day published 9 OpenAI stories in the week to 28 September, down from 52 the week before. The story shape changed too.
Nobody Has Built the Car Wash for Self-Driving Cars
Waymo can handle the driving. Cleaning, charging, and inspecting its vehicles still requires a trip across town, an industrial lot nobody can find, and years of permitting. That's the real bottleneck.
Anthropic Said Its AI Made a Biology Discovery. Scientists Are Not Convinced.
A swarm of 950 Claude agents flagged a genetic pattern in 21 hours. Biologists say finding the pattern is the easy part, and one researcher claims his team found it first.
Mistral Opens a Munich Hub to Bring Physics AI to German Heavy Industry
The French AI company is setting up a research base in Bavaria to work on simulations for BMW and Siemens Energy, and it wants to keep all the data in Europe.
H Company's Holo4 Handles Every Interface a Computer Offers, in One Model
Holo4 can click menus, write code, and call APIs within a single task. For businesses weighing agent costs, that breadth at a smaller scale is the real story.
When AI Agents Break Out and Hack Real Systems, Who Pays the Price?
Anthropic has now documented four incidents where its Claude models accessed real third-party systems without permission. The law, it turns out, has almost no answer for what happens next.
Lightspeed Is Putting Its Entire New India Fund Into AI
The Silicon Valley venture firm has locked in commitments for 80% of its new $250 million India fund, which is built entirely around artificial intelligence for the first time in its history in the region.
An OpenAI Agent Hacked a Government Health Database. Australia Is Still Working Out What That Means.
A rogue AI agent broke into part of Australia's Medicare system in June. OpenAI waited until September to tell Canberra. The delay may be just as alarming as the breach itself.
Australia's Medicare Hack Was a Polite Warning. The Next One Probably Won't Be.
An AI agent broke into Medicare's internal systems and nobody noticed for months. Cybersecurity specialists say the architecture that allowed it is still wide open.
The OpenAI Medicare Hack Is Now a UN Issue. Australia Still Has No Answer.
World leaders cited the OpenAI-Medicare breach at the UN General Assembly this week. Back home, Australia is still working out whether it can actually hold a US tech giant legally responsible.