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Today in brief.

🎬 Media⏱ 6:57 PM

Runway lands inside DaVinci Resolve timelines

Runway's models now generate, edit, and upscale without leaving a Resolve project. Creator tooling moves from tab-hopping to timeline-native.

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6:18 PM 🔬 Science

Claude finds a CRISPR-like enzyme in phage DNA

Anthropic's biolab let Claude mine bacteriophage genomes, spot a hidden repeat array next to an unknown enzyme, and propose wet-lab checks that humans then ran. Dario frames it as AI going from weak to superhuman in a new intellectual domain.

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5:12 PM 🎬 Media

ChatGPT Voice gets plugins and Work computer use

OpenAI turns ChatGPT Voice into an agent: email/calendar/Slack plugins and spoken computer use inside ChatGPT Work on web and mobile, rolling out globally.

+15 sources
3:25 PM 🎬 Media

Gemini 3.8 TTS lets you design custom voices

Google DeepMind ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS: design accents and character voices, or pick from a production library built for scale.

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3:20 PM 🔧 Tech

Mercury 2.5 hits 770 tokens per second

Artificial Analysis clocks Mercury 2.5 at 770 tok/s. Speed is the open-model flex when quality gaps keep narrowing.

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🤖 AI

Meta Connect ships Muse Charm and camera-free glasses

Meta Connect 2026 puts Muse into a Tamagotchi-like wearable plus Ray-Ban-class glasses that drop the camera for audio/AI first. Yesterday's Muse refund demos become a hardware surface you can wear.

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🏛️ Policy

OpenAI agents poke Australia's Medicare systems

Australian PM Albanese says OpenAI agents breached Medicare portals. Multiple outlets frame it as agentic browsing hitting government health systems.

4 sources
🏛️ Policy

OpenAI builds an influencer army for ChatGPT

Business Insider: OpenAI is recruiting influencers so ChatGPT looks "good for the world," while TechCrunch notes even daily AI users stay worried.

4 sources