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Today in brief.
Runway adds Mirelo SFX 2.0, and video consistency jumps
Runway now generates frame-synced soundscapes with Mirelo SFX 2.0 while keeping dialogue, and creators are showing seven-character swaps that hold environment and motion across 19 clips.
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🔬 Science
Claude Mythos 5 designs better quantum circuits
Anthropic's STEM Fellows work shows Mythos 5 taking plain-language specs and beating published quantum circuit designs, sometimes by an order of magnitude.
🤖 AI
Astra Pro runs parallel agents inside ChatGPT
OpenAI upgraded GPT-6 Astra Pro so multiple agents can split a task, run in parallel, and let you watch each one's progress in the Chat tab.
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🤖 AI
90% of US work hours sit outside AI benchmarks
Mercor's labor-index map says most American working hours are spent on tasks current AI benchmarks barely cover, which reframes every leaderboard fight.
🔧 Tech
Open infra lore: vLLM hit ~500k GPUs, Inferact raises $150M
a16z retells how a two-week OPT speedup became vLLM on about 500,000 GPUs, and the core maintainers raised $150M for Inferact to staff it full-time.
🤖 AI
Four Argon agents clear Minecraft in 27 hours
DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon agents wrote 2,783 programs with no human help to beat Minecraft from scratch, while Argon also hits new research and game benches.
🔧 Tech
Try today: reverse-engineer apps, open deciders, Elorian Glimpse
Perplexity wired a reverse-engineer skill into Computer with free credits, open-sourced new decision models, and Elorian Glimpse ships visual reasoning from the Gemini/MM-1 crowd.
🔧 Tech
Postgres 19 delayed after AI finds more bugs than humans can fix
AI code reviewers are surfacing so many real bugs that Postgres 19 slipped, which is the clearest 'AI review throughput > human fix capacity' receipt yet.
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