Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

AI

Tavus unveils Griffin, the "first Human Interaction Model", which it says passed the "video Turing test", with 48% of users thinking it was human in live chats (@tavus)

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).

We haven't written up this one. Techmeme has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at x.com →

More in AI

Awe in the Age of AI

"While acknowledging the amazing capacity of AI, we shouldn’t lose sight of the irreplaceable value of human-generated awe," writes Arianna Huffington.

CycleCare: a private, local cycle companion powered by Gemma and Ollama

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built CycleCare is a small web app that estimates where I am in my menstrual cycle, lets me log symptoms, mood…

  • CycleCare tracks menstrual cycles locally without cloud storage
  • AI-generated wellness suggestions based on user inputs and preferences
  • System prompts prevent medical diagnoses and medication recommendations

Можно ли оценивать поисковый спрос через Writesonic: проверка на живых данных

Можно ли оценивать поисковый спрос через Writesonic: проверка на живых данных — Agent Lab Journal Practice · SEO · Verification Можно ли оценивать поисковый спрос через Writesonic: проверка на живых…

  • Writesonic estimates 50 keywords' demand in seconds without live data
  • Language models predict plausible words, not live search statistics
  • Discrepancy table and scoring script measure demand estimation accuracy

More from Friday 2 October →