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BREAKING: Elon Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed to "SpaceXSI" after Trump changed the name of "Artificial Intelligence (AI)" to "Super Intelligence (SI)." "No more AI. SI. It’s better." ~Elon Musk
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NEWS: NVIDIA-backed Reflection is preparing to release a new open-weight AI model expected to compete with top Chinese and US models.
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BREAKING: Trump announces the launch of the 'Super Intelligence Force' (SIF), tasked with ensuring that 'America continues to lead the World in Super Intelligence'.
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BREAKING: The Qatar Government is investing up to $5.5M to bring startups to Qatar. There are two tracks: START: up to $1.1M if you have a proof of concept or MVP GROW: up to $5.5M if you're already established and expanding Other benefits include: -Entrepreneur visa + flexible work visa -Registration and license fees waived -Subsidized housing -Subsidized co-working space -Access to R&D and innovation grants -Mentoring, training + help hiring interns
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BREAKING: The UK's second richest billionaire, David Reuben, has quit the UK for Monaco. He is worth £28B.
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NEWS: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says he does not regret saying "I am the house now” and further explained that “the house doesn't win every hand. The house plays percentages."
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BREAKING: Donald Trump promises to give all US adult citizens $5,000 if Republicans sweep the House and the Senate — an estimated total cost of $1.2 trillion.
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BREAKING: Marine Le Pen extends her gap as the favorite in the next French presidential election. This stems from the recent nationwide student protests that have led to over 5,000 arrests. Markets now predict a 45% chance she is the next leader of France.
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BREAKING: Increases in energy prices and travel surges in China have pushed inflationary pressure up. Markets price a 61% chance that inflation will be between 0.9-1.0%.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo says AI lacks the spark of humanity and calls on the Church to renew its alliance with human artists and cultural institutions.
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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has triggered Anthropic’s co-founder, Chris Olah, after repeatedly rejecting the idea that AI models can have a conscious.
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NEWS: Castle Hook will pay a record breaking $21.2M a year for 53,000 sq ft of penthouse space at a new Madison Avenue tower. This record of $350-$400 per sq ft beats a record of $327.5 set earlier this year.
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This is a rendering of the office btw
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Yesterday we previewed Griffin, a Human Interaction Model capable of seeing, hearing, sounding, and looking like a human does. There have been a lot of questions, so I wanted to take a moment to share our thoughts. By way of introduction: Tavus is a research lab focused on enabling machines to meet us where we are, and to understand the nuances of how we communicate beyond words. Griffin, our latest model, isn’t publicly available yet. Yesterday’s announcement was a limited research preview to demonstrate what the model is capable of. With AI progressing so quickly, we prefer to share breakthroughs openly and in real-time as we work on a safe public release. Face-to-face is how we evolutionarily communicate, it carries the most meaning and intent, and we want computers to be able to help with work that benefits from that emotional understanding, expression, and immersion. Some examples of the kinds of use cases we care deeply about: - A tutor that can build understanding of how a student learns, see exactly when there is confusion or disengagement, and adapt the lesson to fit them. - A health expert that can answer any questions about your upcoming appointment or prescription, at the pace you want, at any time you need, even on a weekend. - A language coach that you can practice speaking with, that can correct your movement and pronunciation, and help build confidence to have real conversations - Or the perfect assistant for everyone, that understands intent, knows how you work and remembers what matters. We’re working with partners on safeguards and systems for disclosure, as well as inviting discussions with officials around wider regulation and safe use. People will always know they’re interacting with AI, while providing an interface that removes the need to ‘speak computer’. We believe in a future where computers understand us well enough to make technology more accessible, more useful, and make us more capable as humans. That is the world we want to build, and we understand the responsibility to do so safely.
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test. 48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video. It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
Community note
The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard. cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri… research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj… tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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BREAKING: Draftkings $DKNG stock has hit a new 52-week low today.
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BREAKING: Anthropic barely holds on as favorite for the largest IPO by market cap in 2026. Markets still predict a 53% chance Anthropic is the largest IPO, but odds are quietly rebounding in favor of SpaceX
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