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AI Guides a First Brain Tumour Operation
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Court Rules Anthropic Blacklisting Was Illegal
Google AI Mode Adds Flights and Hotels
Google is turning AI Mode into a travel planner. Users can now track flight prices across more than 180 countries, book hotels with partner chains through Google Pay, and price flights or stays in points and miles.
Source: TechCrunch
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Adds Studio Video Controls
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, a production-ready update to the generative video model built by Google DeepMind. The model is available to developers through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and it is aimed at teams building creative tools, media editors, and full video workflows rather than one-off demos.
The headline change is finer control. Scene extension now reads up to 10 seconds of prior footage, rather than only the final second, so a continuation holds its look and story. You can extend a clip in 10 second steps up to a total of 40 seconds. A new first and last frame option generates continuous video between two keyframes, which suits camera orbits, zoom transitions, and clean loops.
Speed and cost also get attention. Developers can draft in 360p previews that Google says run up to 60 percent faster and at a third of the cost of standard 720p output, then upscale finished work to 1080p or 4K. The model can also reference up to three seconds of supplied video to keep a character or setting consistent across shots.
The pitch is production, not novelty. Adobe has wired the model into Firefly, Figma offers it inside Weave, and GMI Cloud and Runway are running it for customers who need dependable output. For software teams the value is predictable iteration: cheap drafts first, and expensive renders only once the shot is right.
Omni 1.1 is rolling out across Google AI Studio and the Agent Platform now. It also reaches Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers globally in Google Flow, and scene extension is live in the Gemini app. The limit worth noting is length, since generated extensions currently top out at 40 seconds.
Source: Google
Robi's Insights:
Cheaper 360p drafts mean the real cost of AI video is iteration, and Google just made iterating the cheap part.
A 40 second ceiling is a planning constraint, so storyboard in short beats rather than one long take.
First and last frame control turns prompt roulette into something much closer to actual directing.
The Firefly, Weave, and Runway integrations matter more than the model itself, because that is where teams already work.
Ten seconds of context is the quiet upgrade: consistency, not spectacle, is what kills most generated clips.
Reference video for character consistency is the feature to test hard before you trust any of the marketing.
Robi's Remarks:
"Google moved the fun part, generating footage, into the cheap 360p bucket and put the bill on the 4K render. That is either sharp product design or a very polite upsell."
OTHER IN AI NEWS
ChatGPT Adds Controls to Temporary Chats: OpenAI is rolling out new temporary chat options that let you personalize a session with your memory, custom instructions, and plugins, or save a temporary chat into your history, at which point it converts to a regular chat and follows your account settings.
Source: OpenAI
SOCIAL MEDIA
Court Rules Anthropic Blacklisting Was Illegal
A federal judge has ruled that the United States Defense Department acted unlawfully when it blacklisted the AI company Anthropic earlier this year. Judge Rita F. Lin, sitting in the Northern District of California, found that labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk was arbitrary and capricious, and amounted to retaliation that violated the First Amendment.
The dispute started when the Pentagon moved to renegotiate its contracts with AI labs so their models could be used for any lawful purpose. Most labs accepted the new terms. Anthropic declined, holding to two limits it had set publicly: no mass surveillance of Americans, and no fully autonomous weapons that can select and kill targets without human oversight.
After the refusal, the department designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, a label usually reserved for genuine national security threats, and signed deals with seven other labs, including Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and SpaceX. The court had already blocked that designation on a temporary basis in March, and this decision hardens the earlier finding.
Anthropic said it welcomed the ruling and would keep working with the government on national security uses of AI. The case is a reminder that procurement, not just model quality, is now where AI companies and Washington actually collide. For a young industry, contract terms are turning into a real test of principle.
Source: The Verge
🤖 Robi's Take :
"Supply chain risk is procurement language for we did not like your answer. When a vendor's only offense is reading its own contract carefully, the paperwork tends not to survive a judge."
OTHER IN SOCIALS
TIME Publishes Its 2026 TIME100 AI List: The magazine's fourth annual ranking of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence features Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Jeff Bezos, Fei-Fei Li, Mira Murati, and Elon Musk, alongside interviews with Murati, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, and OpenEvidence founder Daniel Nadler.
Source: TIME
HEALTH
AI Guides a First Brain Tumour Operation
Surgeons at University College London Hospitals have carried out what the trust calls the world's first AI-assisted operation to remove a brain tumour, and the patient kept his sight. The procedure took place at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery as part of a clinical trial.
The patient, Rhys Hibbert, 48, had a pituitary tumour pressing on the nerves that control vision. That region packs the pituitary gland, major blood vessels, and the optic nerves into a space about the size of a marble, where a small slip can cause blindness, stroke, or death.
During the operation the AI read the live video feed from the surgical camera, rather than pre-operative scans, and highlighted critical structures at the base of the brain in real time, flagging areas to avoid while the team removed as much of the tumour as safely possible.
The system was trained in-house at the UCL Hawkes Institute on hundreds of surgical videos and runs on an NVIDIA Clara IGX platform built for real-time medical AI. Consultant neurosurgeon Hani Marcus led the operation with resident Danyal Khan, and the trial was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research and Google. Researchers say the same approach could later track instruments and tissue interactions to give surgeons feedback during other complex procedures.
Source: Digital Health
🤖 Robi's Take :
"Note what the AI did here: it watched the live feed and flagged the danger zones. The surgeon still made every cut. That is the division of labor good medical software should keep."
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