Google DeepMind shipped agentic video on Gemini Flash today. It hunts frames, audio, and transcript instead of fixed 1 FPS — vendor claims up to 88% fewer tokens.
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 today. Same model, two safeguard paths, 75% cheaper cache reads, and a privacy stack that keeps monitoring data on your cloud.
OpenAI is connecting authorized Epic patient charts to ChatGPT for Healthcare, plus a plugin for official public medical data. It’s read-only. It still isn’t a diagnosis.
Runway’s Solaris research model renders interactive software frame by frame. It’s a bold idea, but text, trust and accessibility are still open problems.
The Pentagon put ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil today. IL5 workplace tools for unclassified CUI — planning, policy, logistics — not combat.
Andrew Bailey’s FSB letter to G20 finance chiefs says frontier AI’s most immediate worry for banks isn’t the hype cycle — it’s cyber risk that can move faster and hit shared tech hard.
Apple just pitched the Mac mini as an always-on agentic desk box. New M6 and M5 Pro, pre-order from Aug 25, ships Sept 22. Same tiny shell. Heavier on-device AI claims.
The European Commission put ChatGPT in the DSA’s search-engine tier today, not just as a chat app, with Reddit and Roblox tagged as very large platforms. Same 45-million-user bar. Extra systemic-risk rules kick in by January 2027.
On Aug 28 Tencent Hunyuan dropped Hy4 preview: 770B total / ~49B active MoE, million-token context, Apache 2.0 weights, and a two-week free window on WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy. Here’s what shipped — and how I’d try it this week.
Google DeepMind extended Gemini Co-Scientist into a lab partner that plans experiments, drives a CVD furnace, and drafts papers. Humans still load samples. A 450-review study cut severe fabricated results to 4%.