The Decoder
Google Research built an AI that spots signs of high blood pressure using only the pulse and motion sensors in a standard smartwatch, no cuff needed. In a 196-person study, its 65.8 percent detection rate beat the traditional in-office measurement.
planned-obsolescence.org
If acceleration compounds, the naive extrapolation implies superintelligence within a year This post discusses a public METR report on AI R&D acceleration at Anthropic. I did not work on this project or see the unredacted report.
The Decoder
Ricursive Intelligence is releasing Ripple-65B Preview, a 65-billion-parameter open-weight language model that the company says achieves the top score among open-source U.S. models on the TerminalBench 2.1 coding benchmark at a total R&D cost of $32 million. On other benchmarks, however, Ripple falls behind the likewise newly released western open model Inkling 2 Small.
TechCrunch
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.