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Today's topics:

AI spots hidden viral biology - Anthropic says Claude helped researchers identify a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages, showing how AI agents can accelerate genome mining and biology discovery. Keywords: Anthropic, Claude, enzyme discovery, bacteriophages, life sciences.

Google pushes voice and memory - Google introduced new Gemini text-to-speech models with more expressive voice control and also expanded Private AI Compute with secure server-side memory. Keywords: Google DeepMind, Gemini, TTS, private AI, assistant memory, privacy.

Benchmarking safer mental health AI - OpenAI released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark built with licensed experts to evaluate AI behavior in realistic mental health conversations. Keywords: OpenAI, MentalHealthBench, AI safety, therapy, evaluation, well-being.

Sandbox security gets real test - In an update to the sandbox escape story, Perplexity found no VM breakouts but did uncover network-policy bypasses that several models could exploit. Keywords: Perplexity, AI agents, sandbox escape, network security, DNS spoofing.

Experts keep missing AI speed - The Forecasting Research Institute says experts and superforecasters have repeatedly underestimated the pace of AI capability gains, especially on benchmarks. Keywords: forecasting, AI progress, benchmarks, coding, math, prediction.

AI reshapes school and culture - AI's social impact showed up in two very different ways: an Australian tutoring business told families to use ChatGPT instead of tutors, while Gen Alpha is using 'AI' as slang for fake or low quality. Keywords: education, tutoring, ChatGPT, Gen Alpha, AI culture.

Reliability questions hit robotics - A new robotics essay argues the field still lacks the post-training recipe that made LLMs practical, while one developer says AI coding is useful but drains the joy from programming. Keywords: robotics, post-training, LLMs, AI coding, software development.

-Google launches Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models
-OpenAI Launches MentalHealthBench for Evaluating AI in Mental Health Conversations
-Perplexity Finds AI Agents Could Bypass Sandbox Network Restrictions
-Qwen Launches Mobile AI Platform With Three New Agents
-Why I Built My Website with AI
-Claude Helps Discover a New CRISPR-Like Enzym