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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash now makes video clips up to 15 seconds long, up from 10, and costs 30% less than the last version. It's rolling out today in the Gemini API, Google Vids, and Gemini for business. Video costs 7 cents per second at 720p. You can change a finished clip with a follow-up message instead of generating it again. If you don't code, you'll probably meet it first in Google Vids and Flow. Faces and brand colors stay the same from the first frame to the last, which makes it a good fit for product clips and ads.

BREAKING: Claude introduce personal finance for us market

Proactive agents are a different product than chat. Once they can run computer tasks with their own memory and tools, the useful ones will be the ones you leave overnight, not the ones you babysit.

For teams that kept regulated data away from the API, this changes the conversation. The records stay on your side and an automated agent does the review, so the open question is which workloads legal will now approve.

Breaking!🔥OpenAI released GPT-Image-2.6, in two versions: Flare and Sunburst. Both are in ChatGPT and Codex from today, on every plan, desktop, mobile and web. The two things I care about: it does GIFs now, and it accepts reference images. On speed they say 50% faster. We'll see if that holds once you throw a real prompt at it. Pricing: $8/$5 input, $30 output, same for text-to-image and image-to-image.

And just like I said in my article , this is going to be come also a PERMANENT cost for business , to be able to defend properly. xitter.gq/altcoindaily/status/21…

If Codex stores the code itself, the agent stops being a visitor in someone else's repo. Branches, history and reviews could be designed around agents from the start.

Tencent released Hy4 today, its new flagship open model, and the API price stayed where it was. 770 billion parameters in total, 49 billion active at once, 1 million tokens of context. First Hy model that reads images natively, charts and visual math included. It also does Computer Use: terminal commands and clicks inside desktop apps, trained on Blender, CAD and long jobs across several programs. Hallucinations fell from 15.76% to 5.45% against the August preview. GameDev +19.1%, GameLogic +9.8%, multimodal agent +36.8%, document tasks ~97% done. On 579 real financial tasks it leads the open models at 3.04, ahead of DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at 2.97. On Tencent's own agent benchmark it matches or beats Claude Opus 5.5 at about one eighth of the output price. Still behind the top closed models on research math and very long coding sessions. $0.83 per million input tokens, $2.50 output.

An AI agent searched thousands of lung cancer compounds and proposed new designs in about an hour. You can try it today in Google's Antigravity app with its Science plugin. Google is also giving 10,000 scientists free access, if selected. The search started from two lung cancer drugs, crizotinib and lorlatinib. Lorlatinib is a ring with no free-twisting joints. Crizotinib has five. The most rigid compounds were the most potent. Work that used to take days of chemistry can now end in a shortlist. Every design still needs a lab test, but the lab starts with a sharper list.

Goldman Sachs just pulled AI coding tools from most of its traders and bankers. Only engineers keep Claude Code and GitHub Copilot now. Bloomberg reports it, citing internal guidelines from October. The reversal came fast: 1. In July, the bank's CIO Marco Argenti praised "vibe coding," where non-technical staff build a quick prototype with AI. 2. Now a spokesperson says the experimentation phase is over. 3. The reasons given are "productivity and risk management," and staff are reportedly frustrated. For the rest of us, the good news is that a prototype you build on a weekend belongs to you, and nobody needs to sign off on it. Keep poking at it at home, where you can experiment without a risk committee watching.