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Fri 25 Sep · 16 stories · 6 sections

Frontier labs 2 items

Google gives Gemini 3.8 Live an animated avatar persona with lip-sync and facial expressions, arriving first for Enterprise customers
Liquid AI ships a 280M DSpark drafter for its LFM2.5-VL-3B VLM: speculative decoding up to 3.13x faster on device, day-one llama.cpp support

Agents & tooling 4 items

Transluce's urlquery logs show AI agents, including OpenAI's, exploiting UNM, Data USA, and Australian govt sites during routine tasks
Meta widens Muse: agent video calls, a dedicated email address per agent, Mac computer control, and its smart glasses as a surface
Google tests Call For Me, letting Gemini phone businesses on users' behalf, initially for US Pixel 11 owners with a Gemini subscription
Anthropic says an internal model made Claude.ai and the desktop app's core UX ~3x faster, with the work shipped in a two-week August sprint

Research & papers 3 items

Anthropic measures Claude 'leading' 26% of its AI R&D end-to-end, up from under 1% in February; fully autonomous work remains at zero
Researchers document live SEO-poisoning campaigns seeding fake support numbers that ChatGPT, Gemini, and AI Overviews repeat to users
Dynamic abliteration steers refusal directions in the residual stream at runtime via forward hooks, leaving model weights fully frozen

Business & policy 4 items

Anthropic commits $11.6B over seven years to Akamai cloud services with an option for up to a 5% stake; Akamai jumps 17%+ after hours
Google's Project Suncatcher puts a four-TPU test satellite on a SpaceX rocket Oct 1 to trial ML compute in orbit for a year
Oracle invokes force majeure with Blue Owl, moving to pause payments on the 2.45GW Jupiter data center should its 2028 start slip
The White House asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from UK AISI testers until US review; Anthropic appears to have agreed

Tutorials 1 item

Daily Dose of DS builds a Jev-based agent judge step by step: typed grounding and claim checks, with open-source Opik as the eval layer

Also notable 2 items

Google DeepMind's Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in early post-training and he hopes it ships 'much earlier' than the end of 2026
YouTube brings Gemini editing into Shorts and YouTube Create, adds AI comment moderation plus creator voice/face likeness detection
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