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Today in brief.
OpenAI previews Astra at Critical cyber capability
OpenAI says Astra hits the Critical threshold on its Preparedness Framework for cybersecurity, Sam is pacing the release for safety, and the Path to Astra writeup is public.
🤖 AI
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 land cheaper and less locked down
Anthropic's new Fable drop beats Fable 5 on agent evals at lower cost, Mythos 5.1 ships alongside it, and Perplexity already wired Fable in as the high-stakes orchestrator.
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World Labs ships Atlas, a spatial world model
Fei-Fei Li's lab launched Atlas: text and image in, up to a minute of spatially consistent video with camera control, including re-shoots of real phone footage from new angles.
🤖 AI
Gemini gets agentic video understanding at 88% fewer tokens
DeepMind says the latest Gemini models can analyze video with better accuracy while burning up to 88% fewer tokens.
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🤖 AI
Perplexity Mac app gets hybrid cloud-to-local compute
Computer can start a task in the cloud, then hand sensitive steps to a local model on your Mac so bloodwork, taxes, and case files never leave the machine.
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🎬 Media
AI sitcoms are getting watchable, and Higgsfield remakes the whole scene
Multi-episode AI sitcoms like Bad Cat are holding attention, while Higgsfield Genjutsu swaps character and scene without breaking the original acting and edit.
3 sources 🔬 🔬 ScienceA small transformer trained in 1.5 hours beats many LLMs on ARC
An HN writeup shows a tiny transformer trained in about ninety minutes outscoring much larger LLMs on ARC-style tasks, a reminder that scale is not the only lever.
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