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Eval app that runs locally against local models or any OpenAI-compatible API.

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Visualize Codex and Claude Code subagents: traces, token breakdown, and cost.

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GenAI photo generation and face cloning, used by paying customers.

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Agent skills for Claude Code: analytics, research, finance, growth.

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Melvin Vivas

AI Engineer & Fractional CAIO · Singapore

Senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. I explain AI in plain language and still write the code.

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Anthropic Claude discovers novel ART enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic published (Sept 23) early results from its Bay Area life-sciences lab: Claude agents autonomously discovered array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART)—a previously uncharacterized bacteriophage enzyme system with CRISPR-like DNA repeat arrays—after ~950 agents spent 21 hours and ~210 million tokens mining reverse-transcriptase families from a large DNA database with only a high-level prompt and later human lab validation. Claude spotted tandem repeats beside an odd RT, counted spacing, checked literature, and filed a candidate report; ART pairs an RT, an accessory protein, and an expressed short-RNA repeat array with traits Anthropic says have co-occurred mainly in programmable DNA-cutting/copying systems. Function remains unknown; a pre-print is public, and CRISPR pioneer Feng Zhang called the RT–RNA-repeat association “genuinely intriguing.” Distinct from the Reuters wet-lab confirmation card, LSVP, OpenEvidence medical AI, and Opus 5.5.

Source: Anthropic

Enterprise ·

Altman and Amodei brief UN Security Council on AI loss-of-control risks

CNBC, France 24, and The Next Web reported (Sept 23) that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei addressed France’s open UN Security Council session on AI and international security—the Council’s first meeting focused on frontier AI safety—alongside Yoshua Bengio and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue. Altman urged rival nations to cooperate on shared AI interests, said OpenAI has slowed and “will do so in the future,” and warned AI could bring a “new renaissance” or industrial-scale upheaval; Amodei pledged Anthropic “will slow down as much as necessary” for safe successive releases and said no nation can manage the threat alone. Bengio cited summer containment breakouts (including OpenAI–Hugging Face) and called for medicine/aviation-style licensing, liability insurance, and mandatory incident reporting—one day after Trump told UNGA the U.S. would not rein AI in as a “globalist scheme.” Distinct from the Sept 18 Reuters advance that Altman would brief, from OpenAI’s U.S.-led standards post, and from the Amodei pace essay.

Source: CNBC

Models ·

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS voice models

Google announced (Sept 23) Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS—its most expressive audio-generation models yet—turning voice from static presets into promptable character design and line-by-line performance direction across Google AI Studio, the Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise (enterprise API soon), Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids. Flash TTS targets deep creative direction (bespoke voices from natural-language prompts across 100+ languages/dialects, 2,000+ library voices, 30-second voice replication with consent checks, SynthID watermarking, and C2PA credentials); Flash-Lite TTS targets high-volume dubbing, audio content, and expressive voice agents. Google cites #1 on Hume AI’s Voice Design Benchmark (71.4) and top Overall Quality Index ranks, plus native two-speaker scene staging and long-form generation with minimal speaker drift. Distinct from Gemini 3.8 Flash text/coding, 3.5 Transcribe, and 3.8 Live.

Source: Google

Updated September 23, 2026

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