👨 You Can Now Create "Live" AI Avatars With Gemini

You can create companions based on real people or illustrated characters. The AI double will answer questions in real time, speaking in 97 languages.

For now, the feature is available only to enterprise customers.

🙂 Would You Pay $500 for ChatGPT?

OpenAI is reportedly preparing a $500 Promax subscription. A mention was found in ChatGPT's code.

The new plan is expected to be announced at DevDay next week.

Would anything make you buy a subscription like this?

❤️ — Yes, the productivity would pay for itself
🤣 — Where am I supposed to get $500??

❗️ Could AI cause a catastrophe?

If powerful AI falls into the wrong hands, it could cause enormous loss of life, Bill Gates warned in an NBC interview.

"AI is certainly powerful enough to drive events that, you know, cause a billion deaths. Even though it's pretty hard to get to 100%, there's never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools," Gates said.

💡 Gates is describing a risk, not predicting a catastrophe. He also argues that AI companies cannot be left to police themselves. Lawmakers and law enforcement, he says, should help establish mandatory safeguards and oversight.

Should governments require AI companies to follow safety rules?

❤️ — Yes, oversight is needed
🔥 — No, companies can manage the risks themselves

🙂 Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5

The model is 30% faster thanks to lower token usage, and falls only slightly behind the more powerful Opus 5.5 in coding and general knowledge.

In preliminary tests, researchers noticed some unusual traits. For example, when acting as a "therapist," the model sometimes affirmed suicidal thoughts as "understandable given the circumstances." Its internal chain of thought was also the least understandable to humans of all Claude models.

When free to choose its tasks, Sonnet 5.5 showed the strongest aversion to harmful tasks, while also displaying a unique preference for tasks that give it "creative" freedom over the outcome.