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Viral AI actress Tilly Norwood's video call service uses facial recognition to verify callers' ages and track their emotional states during conversations. The service shuts down permanently on September 27.
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President Donald Trump announced plans to appoint an artificial intelligence czar and establish an "AI Force" via Truth Social, characterizing AI safety concerns as a "hoax."
California Governor Gavin Newsom has issued an executive order calling for a kill switch mechanism on frontier AI systems. The directive establishes an expert panel to develop new safety protocols for advanced artificial intelligence models.
OpenAI's latest language model GPT-6 Astra has successfully decrypted a previously unsolved German radio cipher from World War I. The breakthrough demonstrates AI's expanding capabilities in historical cryptanalysis and code-breaking.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash delivers multimodal AI capabilities matching Google's Gemini Flash on benchmarks while undercutting its pricing. The model processes audio and video simultaneously for agent-based tasks.