Google launches agentic video understanding for Gemini Flash models

The blog post argues that AI safety refusal should target specific harmful subsets of a topic rather than refusing the entire topic, aiming to preserve legitimate uses. It discusses methods for fine-grained refusal control.

GCVC, a new legal tech VC fund, launched backed by over fifty sitting general counsels from companies like Salesforce, Circle, and ElevenLabs. Wilson Sonsini is the first law firm to invest. The fund targets early-stage Seed and Series A startups.

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes in the human genome. It includes a 1PB dataset with an AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score for each variant, accessible via a web portal, Antigravity, and the AlphaGenome interface.

Runway AI Inc.'s annual recurring revenue reached $200 million in September, driven by demand for its image- and video-generating software used in marketing and ads.

Celero Communications raised $275 million in a funding round valuing the networking chip startup at over $3 billion, with Alphabet's CapitalG participating. The investment targets demand for improving AI data center efficiency.

The anonymous model that topped coding benchmarks is Zai's GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320B-parameter hybrid with 18B active per token. It served 42 trillion tokens in six days on OpenRouter and costs just $0.09 per task on GDPval AA v2.