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World Labs' Atlas Takes Camera Geometry as an Input
World Labs announced Atlas, an omni model working across text, images, video and 3D. It takes camera geometry as input and renders up to a minute at 1440p.
Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe Runs at $0.18 an Hour
Meta introduced Muse Voice Transcribe with real-time diarization, 0.16 second latency and reported pricing near $0.18 per audio hour.
ChatGPT Health Connects to Epic, Read-Only by Design
OpenAI let healthcare organizations connect Epic records to ChatGPT for Healthcare. The link is read-only, and physicians rated 99.1% of responses safe.
NYC Bans Student AI Through 8th Grade for a Full Year
New York halted student-facing generative AI through eighth grade for a year. Companion chatbots are banned at every grade and 600,000 students are affected.
DOJ Backs OpenAI: Training AI on Copyright Is Fair Use
The Justice Department filed its first formal position in an AI copyright case, telling a New York court that training on copyrighted text is fair use.
Gemini 3.8 Flash Ships With a Price That Doubles January 1
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and a gated Cyber variant. The introductory price expires December 31, and token costs double on January 1.
Anthropic Opens Claude Watermark Detection to Regulators and Media
Anthropic's verification API lets approved regulators, newsrooms and fact-checkers confirm whether a text carries Claude's invisible watermark. It answers 'did AI write this?' only for one company's models.
Pentagon Opens ChatGPT and Grok to 3 Million Staff, Claude Absent
The Pentagon's GenAI.mil portal now offers ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government alongside Gemini. 1.7 million users are already on it, contracts run to $200 million each, and Anthropic is still left out.
Google Pics Takes On Canva With Prompts Instead of Templates
Google's new AI design tool lives inside Docs and Slides, runs on Nano Banana, and asks you to describe the image rather than pick a template. Here is who gets it and what it still lacks.
OpenAI's Astra Crosses the 'Critical' Cyber Line, Ships Gated
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in the Preparedness Framework. It aced ExploitBench and found two zero-days, so its strongest capabilities go to a vetted few.
Claude Fable 5.1 Keeps Its Price but Cuts Cache Reads by 75%
Anthropic's new flagship holds list prices steady and slashes cache-read costs, which it says trims typical workloads by 25% and agent jobs by up to 45%. The unrestricted twin, Mythos 5.1, stays behind a vetting wall.
FSB Chief Warns G20 That AI Valuations Could Amplify a Crash
FSB chair Andrew Bailey warned G20 finance ministers that inflated AI valuations, rising leverage and cross-investments could amplify the next market correction, with frontier AI cyber risk on top.
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