Welcome back, Superhuman. Roughly half of the people who spoke to Griffin thought they were talking to a real human. But they weren’t. Griffin is the first Human Interaction Model from Tavus, and its insanely lifelike demo racked up over 5M views just hours after launch.
Today: Ideogram 4.5 is here, learn how to dictate anywhere on your device with AI, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.
TODAY IN AI
Watch how Tavus’ real-time Human Interaction Model works. Source: Tavus.
1. Tavus unveils Griffin, its first model for face-to-face interaction: Griffin holds conversations that feel fluid and authentic by interpreting and responding to your expressions, tone, gestures, and timing in real time. The lab calls Griffin its first Human Interaction Model and claims it fooled 48% of the people who talked to it into believing it was a real person. Watch people talking to Griffin or learn more about how it works.
2. Ideogram launches a new image model with precision editing: Ideogram 4.5 generates high-quality images and lets you make repeated, targeted edits to specific sections without disturbing the rest of the image or degrading quality from one round to the next. The lab says it’s easy to refine colors, change text, restore old images, and make other changes. It’s available now. Try it here.
3. Factory’s CEO accuses rival of corporate espionage: In a viral X post, Factory CEO Matan Grinberg warned that ethics are "being thrown out the window" in the AI industry, making two accusations toward Factory’s competitor Cognition. He claims Cognition’s engineers posed as job applicants to conduct espionage, and also accused a former board member of passing along company information, although those claims have been disputed. Read the full story.
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You'll learn:
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Download and Install Wispr Flow
Once done, tap the floating bubble to dictate anywhere on your device (Flow sits on top of every app: WhatsApp, Slack, Gmail, ChatGPT, your browser)
Talk the way you would to a friend. Include "um"s, go on tangents, change your mind mid-sentence.
Flow strips the filler, fixes the grammar, and formats everything. You get clean, polished text ready to send.
You can use it to dictate long replies, speak detailed prompts and dictate code comments etc.
Available on Mac, Windows, iPhone, and Android. Free and unlimited on Android during launch.
Download Wispr Flow and turn your thoughts into text instantly.
FROM THE FRONTIER
How this week shaped AI: the biggest updates & releases
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The AI industry has been calling for regulation for months, and this week, they finally got it. Sort of. Tech heavyweights gathered in Washington DC, and while they walked away with a signed safety agreement, it was notably light on specifics. Zuckerberg called the agreement a “start” to AI regulation.
Outside of Washington, the industry continued to move at light speed. Here are the major releases from this week:
Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and ElevenLabs debuted new models: This week brought Gemini Argon, Google’s first frontier-level model in months. We also got Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, and ElevenLabs’ most emotive voice model yet.
OpenAI released a collaborative work platform at DevDay 2026: ChatGPT Space lets you create and edit work documents while working alongside human and AI teammates. Read everything OpenAI announced at its annual conference here.
Microsoft released a new Copilot: The updated Copilot rolls multiple tools into one platform. It’ll be available in the coming weeks through Microsoft’s Frontier program.
SpaceXAI dropped shareable agents for teams: Team Bots let you build agents to handle shared tasks that often fall between job descriptions.
Readers also enjoyed this four-word prompt, posted by a Modal engineer, who claims it feels like giving your chatbot a 20-point IQ boost.
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IN THE KNOW
What’s trending on socials & headlines today
Meme of the day
🤯 Cracking Codes: GPT-6 Astra solved a 217-year-old Napoleonic military cipher that uses numbers, letters, and even made-up symbols. This blog post explains how the cipher was broken, the secret message, and its context in the war (4M views).
🎼 Claude the Composer: If you listened to this 2-minute musical score, you would never guess it was AI-generated. The piece has circulated online, with one musician pointing out that it includes a circle-of-fifths sequence (1M views).
🤔 What Could’ve Been: Sam Bankman-Fried’s eye-watering investment returns keep going viral. On paper, he’s one of the best investors of the decade. Instead, he’s serving a 25-year prison sentence (1M views).
🦾 Surviving AI: Nervous about surviving in the AI era? Elon Musk offered this advice to 20-year-olds on how to stay nimble and hopefully get ahead during the next few years (4.5K bookmarks).
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PROMPT STATION
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