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Today in brief.
Gemini 4 Carbon takes #1, but only cyber defenders get it
Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon two weeks after Argon. It tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 at 59 and leads the cyber benchmarks, but access starts with a small set of cyber defenders while Google tunes guardrails.
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🔧 Tech
Akai opens its MPC to vibe-coded synths
Akai is seeding early MPC Sample Key units to modders, with open-source firmware and an SDK coming. Its clips already show vibe-coded synths, some built by Claude, and even a full custom OS on the device.
🤖 AI
AI in the physical world: Odyssey-3, a painting robot arm, 3D parity
Odyssey says its Odyssey-3 world model now simulates general environments in real time with better physics, a GPT-6 Astra demo had a real robot arm paint, film and edit from one chat, and Andon Labs says AI now ties humans on physical 3D understanding benchmarks.
🎬 Media
Try today: Chrome fills forms from Gmail, Perplexity voice, Cursor's Agent SDK
Small things you can use now: Chrome autofill that pulls from Gmail, a new Perplexity voice mode for parallel work, Cursor's Agent SDK, Runway's API plugin for Codex, and an open-source legal citation tool.
🤖 AI
Microsoft made $10B from OpenAI in one quarter
Microsoft's filing shows $10B in revenue from OpenAI arrangements last quarter, nearly 11% of its $92.3B total. Azure got its first dollar figure, $33.2B, and Anthropic is shipping reports so companies can see what their token spend buys.
🤖 AI
Nvidia open-sources a 40-language transcriber with speaker labels
Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight model that transcribes 40 languages, translates 31, labels up to eight speakers and takes hour-long audio, plus the Granary v2 data pipeline to fine-tune it. Also on LocalLLaMA: a RISC-V CPU built inside Qwen's weights.
🤖 AI
Best AI tax agent passes 10.8% of real assignments
Surge AI's DAYJOB: Tax benchmark gives agents 50 real tax-practice assignments across 1,789 files. The leader, Claude Sonnet 5.5, passes just 10.8% at a 95% rubric bar.
🏛️ Policy
AI backlash: a religious opt-out and buyouts not to sue
A Kentucky man became the first humanist granted a religious exemption from using AI, xAI is reportedly offering to buy hundreds of Mississippi homes if owners skip a data center lawsuit, and Instagram's Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is going to get worse.
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