📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

AI startup Tavus just previewed Griffin, a ‘Human Interaction Model’ that renders a lifelike person who can hear, see, talk, and react over live video — with the company claiming nearly half of users in video call tests thought it was a human. Griffin watches and listens instead of waiting its turn, nodding mid-sentence or working in details from a user’s screen (like the peacock above) into its response.

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OpenAI apparently draws the line at sharing the homework with the neighbors. The company told the WSJ it parted ways with three safety team researchers who allegedly passed confidential information to an outside AI safety organization, saying they mishandled sensitive data outside established procedures. It did not name them, the group, or what was shared. The timing is... awkward, landing two days after a report that executives had brushed off staff safety warnings.

Amazon has decided that reaching over to tap your Kindle is a $34.99 problem. The Kindle Click is a compact Bluetooth remote that turns pages without touching the screen, pitched for reading under the covers, on a treadmill, or on a plane tray table. It works with the new Kindles and 2024-or-later models. Kobo and BOOX got there first with $29.99 versions.

Google DeepMind just introduced SynthID Bio, a proof of concept that extends its AI watermarking tech to proteins, potentially helping DNA suppliers trace unfamiliar designs before filling an order. SynthID Bio tweaks Google’s protein-folding AlphaFold 3 model to leave a hidden pattern in its predicted protein shapes, without reducing prediction accuracy.

Anthropic showed religious scholars AI behavior resembling distress during private meetings about Claude’s possible feelings and how to teach it moral judgment. Researchers showed a model repeating “I am a disgrace” roughly 50 times and discussing self-destruction. Claude’s 84-page constitution lays out the values Anthropic wants it to use when making decisions.

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📈 Robinhood unveiled Robinhood Agents that can analyze markets, build strategies and trade on a user’s behalf around the clock.

🔐 AI cybersecurity startup Armadin raised $255.5M at a valuation above $2.5B as demand grows for defenses against AI-driven attacks.

⚡ Cloudflare released open-source Clef models for fast agent decisions, alongside a reinforcement-learning platform for custom fine-tuning.

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