6:30 PM

Today in brief.

a16z: median AI spend is $12 per employee

a16z says the median US company spends $12 per employee per month on AI, while the top 1% in one dataset already hit about $7,000.

3 sources

3:30 PM

🎬 Media

FLUX 3 Edit locks human motion into anime

FLUX 3 Edit turns a live-action human animation reference into anime while keeping facial detail and motion that other models smear.

1 source 2:26 PM

🎬 Media

DeepMind rebuilds a first meeting that was never filmed

Google DeepMind helps reconstruct Burt and Ethelle's first meeting from restored photos and pose-control models for the Love, Rendered documentary.

+26 sources 1:53 PM

🎬 Media

Runway licenses weights and plugs into Astra

Runway lets enterprises license frontier model weights to fine-tune and self-host, and shows a ChatGPT Astra path from product still to finished animation.

+15 sources 10:48 AM

🏛️ Policy

Lawyer fined $5K for ChatGPT fake witnesses

A lawyer gets a $5K fine after ChatGPT invented witness testimony in a murder appeal, while Claude's 18+ age gate and HN "without AI" filters mark a wider trust backlash.

+610 sources 5:45 AM

🎬 Media

GPT-Live-1 kills the voice-agent pause

OpenAI puts GPT-Live-1 in the API: simultaneous listen and talk, interruption handling, and about $0.05 per minute for realistic voice agents.

3 sources 4:52 AM

🔧 Tech

Gemini lands on Windows; Mecka races robot data

Google ships the Gemini app for Windows, while Mecka AI nears a $500M Sequoia-led round in the rush for robot training data.

+15 sources 1:22 AM

🔧 Tech

Spanda, Rails agents, and Benzi for builders

Three builder drops: Spanda does sub-microsecond epistemic uncertainty in Rust, Agents on Rails tops out at 35% feature success, and Benzi claims a harness edge over Claude Code.

+610 sources