Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise: near real-time talking-head video with lip-sync, 97-language speech-to-speech, and async tool calls that keep the avatar talking while work runs in the background. Custom avatars from a reference image are allowlisted; outputs carry SynthID watermarks.
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab says Claude agents spent 21 hours mining DNA databases and spotted array associated reverse transcriptases (ART)—a phage enzyme system with CRISPR like repeats whose function is still unknown. Humans ran the wet lab work; a preprint is out…
Fortune reports OpenAI will preview GPT 6 Cyber, a cybersecurity focused model, within days—likely at DevDay Tuesday—plus a product for safer automated deployment. Daybreak Red customers already have alpha access; OpenAI has not commented…
DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information Gemini 4 is in post training and Google wants an early release “as soon as possible,” well before end of 2026. Internal tests already run the model inside Antigravity…
At WeAreDevelopers, Docker released the Sandbox Kit Spec under Apache 2.0 and is taking it to CNCF. A Kit is an ordinary OCI image that packages an agent, its tools, and a typed list of hosts, credentials, and volumes it may reach—so pinning the image pins the agent and its permission requests together…
In Public Preview, Google Cloud API Gateway can act as a remote MCP server: annotate an OpenAPI 3.x spec, deploy, and existing REST ops become agent tools on /mcp with the same auth, quotas, and logging—no separate MCP server to run…
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