Google's Genie 4: AI Worlds Where the People Talk Back!

10 stories in this episode

1. 01

   Genie 4: real-time worlds where people talk back

   Genie 4 is DeepMind's first real-time world model with native audio: people in the scene react and talk. It's a research preview for trusted testers, with AI Ultra access promised but undated.

   0:00Read the original · Google DeepMind ↗
2. 02

   Echo-3 turns a phone video into a 3D world

   SpAItial's Echo-3 turns a phone capture into a photorealistic, metric-scale 3D world, from one room to whole buildings, and it's available now.

   1:07Read the original · SpAItial on X ↗
3. 03

   A Roblox-labeled bot took 145 GB of 3D models

   Open3DLab says a crawler carrying a Roblox researcher's email in its user agent took 145.5 GB from its three 3D sites, adult content included; Roblox hasn't replied.

   1:45Read the original · Open3DLab ↗
4. 04

   Valve: "fully aware" of slop, but no AI filter

   At Steam Indie Connect in Korea, Valve admitted Next Fest's random first days surface low-quality games, but said it won't police which tools developers use.

   2:44Read the original · Inven Global ↗
5. 05

   Axiom: math's biggest proof, fully computer-checked

   Axiom says it has fully formalized the Classification of Finite Simple Groups in Lean: about 15,000 pages of human proof became 43.1 million machine-checked lines.

   3:35Read the original · Axiom ↗
6. 06

   OpenAI's physics proof: who holds it, who wants it

   A committee chaired by David Gross now holds OpenAI's claimed Yang–Mills proof and will manage its release; a math advisory group says it should be public now.

   4:28Read the original · KITP ↗
7. 07

   New AI ranking: Opus 5.5 leads by a single point

   Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index v5 leans 60% on private tests; Claude Opus 5.5 (58) edges GPT-6 Astra (57) and GPT-6.1 Sol (55).

   5:15Read the original · Artificial Analysis on X ↗
8. 08

   Anthropic buys a one-person drug company

   Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a one-person muscular dystrophy startup where Claude ran much of the work; it says human trials could start as soon as late 2028.

   5:51Read the original · Anthropic ↗
9. 09

   Stanford authors opt out and sue over pirated books

   Stanford authors Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee left Anthropic's $1.5 billion book settlement to sue on their own, seeking up to $150,000 per work.

   6:46Read the original · The Stanford Daily ↗
10. 10

    AI plate readers flag "suspicious" road trips

    Automated plate readers now flag 'suspicious' travel patterns that can lead to traffic stops; in an August YouGov poll, 46% opposed police using them.

    7:35Read the original · Gizmodo ↗