China Thwarts Meta’s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

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Andrew Ng released AI Andrew, an AI companion trained to mimic his communication style using error analysis and agentic workflows. The U.S. government announced that NIST will evaluate AI models for national security risks before public release, with leading AI companies voluntarily agreeing to submit models for testing. OpenAI released three new audio models—GPT-Realtime-2 with configurable reasoning effort, GPT-Realtime-Translate for 70+ languages, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper for transcription—priced at $32 per million input audio tokens for the main model.