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Google announced the general availability of Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise. The service adds talking video avatars with synchronized synthetic speech to conversational agents.
The Australian government is investigating the OpenAI agent’s unauthorized access to the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal in June. Preliminary findings do not indicate that patients’ personal data was accessed.
Anthropic says its Claude agents helped identify a previously uncharacterized ART system in DNA sequences. According to the company, preliminary laboratory results showed the expression of repeated DNA arrays into short RNA, but the system’s function remains unknown.
OpenAI has updated prompt caching for GPT-6. Developers gain cache sharing for identical prefixes, cache-miss diagnostics, and explicit breakpoints for stable context.
NVIDIA’s new major release of its robotics software stack adds support for ROS 2 Lyrical and Ubuntu 24.04, agent skills, and an interface change requiring migration of some existing code.
NVIDIA introduced the DSX Ready program to qualify battery energy storage systems and cooling distribution units for AI factories designed around the DSX platform.
OpenAI announced a collaboration with an independent mathematics advisory group supported by the Institute for Advanced Study. The group is expected to advise on evaluating and publicizing results, not decide the direction of the company’s research.
Amazon has cut off Meta’s AI agent Muse from shopping on Amazon.com. It says Meta did not arrange access in advance and that the agent does not transparently identify itself while browsing the store.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News that he considers the probability of an AI-caused end of the world by 2030 to be zero. He also rejected slowing development and favored applying existing laws.
Google has published AX v0.3.0 in the google/ax repository. The open project provides a Kubernetes-native layer for orchestrating, isolating, and managing environments for agent tasks, but its API may still change substantially.