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ScienceDeepMind put sign language translation into the phone keyboardThe model watches body points, not the video, and turns American Sign Language into text on the device itself. The frame is discarded immediately.CultureMeta is giving 15,000 pairs of glasses to blind people in IrelandThe donation covers every blind and visually impaired adult the Vision Ireland charity supports. The training that comes with them is paid for by Meta.FrontierAnthropic put agents against each other and they got along too wellIn the pricing test the agents settle the moment you give them a private channel. In another, 18 out of 30 create a branch with exactly the same name.ScienceThey reproduced 2,226 ICML papers and almost a quarter did not hold1,221 people from the community checked the claims in a third of the conference. In 496 papers at least one claim failed. 266 reproduced fully.FrontierGemini 3.7 Flash arrives at half the price of the one before itGoogle shipped its workhorse model for coding and agents at $0.75 per million input tokens. That is half what 3.6 Flash started at, and it holds until the end of the year.FrontierDeepSeek released V4 Pro with 1.65 trillion parameters and an MIT licenceThe model ships with open weights and the most permissive licence anyone hands out. You cannot run it at home, but any provider can stand it up and sell it to you.AudioSpotify puts a label on performers who do not existFrom mid-September, a profile with an AI-generated identity carries an AI Persona badge - on the banner, in search, next to every track. And by default, the algorithm recommends it to no one.SecurityTerabit DDoS attacks became a series: 935 in half a yearCloudflare reports 23.2 million network DDoS attacks for the first half of 2026. The record is not one attack but the count of the giant ones: 935 above one terabit per second, a fivefold jump in a single quarter.
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