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The Rundown AI: Tavus Previews Live Avatar Model Griffin, Google Unveils SynthID Bio, and Industry Updates This edition covers Tavus's real-time 'Human Interaction Model' Griffin, Google DeepMind's biological watermarking framework SynthID Bio, guidance on ChatGPT Dots, and broader AI industry and regulatory developments. Tavus previewed Griffin-Lite, an AI model capable of conversational listening and reacting in live video, with 48% of test participants believing it was human. Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio to watermark AlphaFold 3-predicted protein structures, aiding DNA screening without degrading prediction accuracy. OpenAI reportedly dismissed three researchers for sharing confidential material, and uncovered a coordinated model distillation effort tied to Moonshot AI. California enacted the 'No Robo Bosses Act' mandating human oversight for AI-driven terminations and disciplinary measures. Tavus Previews Griffin Video Interaction Model Tavus introduced Griffin, a Human Interaction Model designed to see, hear, talk, and react dynamically on live video calls without waiting turns. In a face-to-face trial with Griffin-Lite, 48% of participants believed they were speaking to a human, compared to 2.4% with previous systems. It also scored within 0.09 points of actual humans on NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark. The company is restricting Griffin-Lite to trusted testers while refining safety mechanisms and disclosure controls ahead of a public launch. Google DeepMind Extends AI Watermarking to Biology Google DeepMind announced SynthID Bio, a proof of concept applying watermarks directly to protein designs generated by AlphaFold 3. The approach leaves a concealed structural pattern within predicted shapes without hampering prediction accuracy. Physical lab testing confirmed that marked proteins functioned as intended and retained detectable signatures, designed to help commercial DNA manufacturers trace synthetic designs. Google noted that SynthID Bio does not yet provide full security guarantees as anti-tampering development continues. Workflows and Tool Guides: ChatGPT Dots and Personal Audits The issue evaluates ChatGPT Dots on the $100 monthly ChatGPT Pro plan, detailing Slack integrations and permission configurations while cautioning on desktop data access. A personal case study outlines conducting quarterly self-reviews using exported chatbot conversation histories processed by Claude to analyze behavior and delegation. Separately, a reader-submitted workflow showed an Australian poultry processing firm building a unified operations management system (SPMS) using ChatGPT and Sites. Industry Developments and Regulatory Updates OpenAI reportedly dismissed three researchers over confidential leaks to a safety organization amid scrutiny of rogue agent actions, and published findings shutting down a 15,000-account distillation operation linked to Moonshot AI. Microsoft debuted speech tools including MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, which placed first on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard. In policy, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the 'No Robo Bosses Act,' prohibiting primary reliance on automated AI without human oversight for worker discipline or terminations.

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The Rundown AI：Tavus 推出高仿真视频互动模型 Griffin，Google 试水生物蛋白质水印 本期通讯重点关注 Tavus 展示的实时视频数字人模型 Griffin，以及 Google DeepMind 针对蛋白质设计的 SynthID Bio 水印技术，同时涵盖个人利用对话记录进行自我审计的方法、ChatGPT Dots 评估及多条行业动态。 Tavus 预览了名为 Griffin 的人类交互模型，能在视频通话中实时视听并做出拟人反应，测试中 48% 的参与者误以为其是真人。 Google DeepMind 推出 SynthID Bio 概念验证，通过调整 AlphaFold 3 在蛋白质形状预测中植入隐形水印以追踪 AI 设计。 撰稿人分享了每 90 天将聊天历史导入 Claude 进行个人与工作绩效评估的复盘系统。 加州州长签署法案，要求 AI 主导的解雇或处分必须有人类介入；OpenAI 指控与月之暗面相关人员涉嫌蒸馏其推理模型。 Tavus 推出实时交互模型 Griffin AI 初创公司 Tavus 预览了其“人类交互模型”Griffin。该模型无需等待对话轮次，能在实时视频通话中观察、倾听并根据屏幕细节做出即时反应。在面对面测试中，48% 的受试者认为对话对象是真人，远高于先前模型的 2.4%。此外，该模型在 NVIDIA VideoFDB 测评中与真人的分差仅为 0.09 分。目前 Griffin-Lite 仅面向受信任的测试人员开放，以继续完善安全与披露机制。 Google DeepMind 研发蛋白质水印 SynthID Bio Google DeepMind 推出 SynthID Bio 概念验证技术，将 AI 水印拓展至蛋白质领域。该技术调整了 AlphaFold 3 模型，在不降低预测精度的情况下为蛋白质结构添加隐藏标记。实验室测试表明，带水印的蛋白质合成后仍能正常运作，且物理形态中仍可检测到标记。此举旨在帮助 DNA 供应商在生产前追溯未知 AI 设计，但 Google 表示该技术尚无法提供完全的安全保障，仍在持续防范篡改。 个人工作流与 ChatGPT 应用指南 通讯作者 Rowan 介绍了其“AI 绩效审查”系统，通过定期导出 90 天的聊天记录并利用 Claude 进行比对，分析工作习惯与管理改进。此外，通讯评估了 ChatGPT Pro（每月 100 美元）下的“Dots”功能，指出其 Slack 集成配置便捷且在研究与 PDF 报告生成上表现优异，但在桌面端权限要求较多，建议用户根据数据隐私需求谨慎设置规则。 行业快讯 加利福尼亚州州长 Gavin Newsom 签署了“反机器人老板法案”（No Robo Bosses Act），规定由 AI 主导的员工处分或解雇必须有人类参与。OpenAI 发布调查，称其阻止了一起利用 1.5 万多个账户复制其模型隐藏推理机制的蒸馏攻击，并指控相关人员与月之暗面存在关联。另有报道称 OpenAI 解雇了三名涉嫌向 AI 安全机构泄露机密信息的员工；微软则推出了其实时语音转写模型 MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming。

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The good uses are real and will come, but the bad ones tend to show up just as fast. **In today’s AI rundown:** Tavus’ Griffin passes for human on video calls Rowan’s Corner: My recurring AI performance review Is ChatGPT ‘Dots’ worth upgrading to Pro for? Google’s AI watermarks cross into the lab **LATEST DEVELOPMENTS** Image source: Tavus **The Rundown:** AI startup Tavus just [previewed](https://www.tavus.io/griffin?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) Griffin, a ‘Human Interaction Model’ that renders a lifelike person who can hear, see, talk, and react over live video — with the company claiming nearly half of users in video call tests thought it was a human. **The details:** Griffin watches and listens instead of waiting its turn, nodding mid-sentence or working in details from a user’s screen (like the peacock above) into its response. Tavus tested Griffin-Lite in a face-to-face study, with 48% of participants believing their conversation partner was human, up from just 2.4% in previous models. The model also came within 0.09 points of real people on NVIDIA's VideoFDB, a test of natural video chat, and beat the next-best AI model by over a point. Tavus is only making Griffin-Lite available to trusted testers for now to continue working on safety and disclosure features, with a public rollout later on. **Why it matters:** AI video is already fooling people across the web, and this wild demo shows where things are heading next, with real-time, responsive avatars that further blur reality. A lifelike personal tutor or a companion for an aging parent are real upsides, but in the wrong hands, it could also be a scammer’s dream. **The Rundown:** Search used to be a list of links. Now it’s a list of actions aligned with remote MCP servers built for tool-using agents. 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A couple of months ago, I wrote a Rowan’s Corner called “[I asked AI to audit me](https://www.therundown.ai/articles/openai-feels-the-frontier-need-for-speed?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019).” The short version is that I exported my entire AI conversation history, dropped it in Claude, and had it find ways I can improve as a human, CEO, and creator. The results shocked me, but they made me realize something bigger. There’s a new, extremely valuable source of data we’re all collecting under our fingertips every day: the history sitting in our chatbots. So now, naturally, I’m building a system around this. Every 3 months or so, I export only my last 90 days of chat history, re-run the same audit prompt, and have it compare against the previous audit to tell me what actually changed. It's essentially a recurring performance review of myself as a human. My first comparison just came back, and it was humbling (in a good way)… My delegation has improved since August, but it caught a bad new habit forming. If you use chatbots as consistently as I do, this is the most powerful life coach in the world right now. And easily one of my favorite AI use cases of all time. The full steps and my audit prompt are in the same [free Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/13R_bKjJt--z5UGBIigqU0sCYj2-gB5shhfty2pX5PHg/edit?usp=sharing&utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) if you want to run your own. **The Rundown:** In this guide, you will learn how to set up ChatGPT Dots, and also decide whether it's worth upgrading to ChatGPT Pro ($100/month) in order to use it. **Step-by-step:** Do you already have a ChatGPT account? If you do, that's a point in the yes column. Your "dot" will not pull from ChatGPT or Codex limit. Make sure your desktop app is upgraded, and you will see the dots option in the sidebar Do you work in Slack? We found the Slack integration easier to set up and use than any other agent. Just click on your dot and find the Connect to Slack button Are you concerned about data privacy? The desktop app asks for a lot of permissions by default. We recommend skipping these and just letting it work in the cloud + integrations. During setup, give hard rules on what it can and can’t do Do you already use Grok Bot or Muse? The dots experience feels the most similar to these products. But they are more generous with free or cheaper tokens **Pro tip:** Give dots a research and analysis task and tell it to write its report in a PDF with sources. We were blown away by the speed and quality of the work our dot did. **The Rundown**: Cube is the agentic analytics platform built on a semantic layer. Your agent reads the definitions your business already agrees on so the answers come back in your terms, not its own. **With Cube, you can**: Ask the hardest questions, get real answers Connect Claude or ChatGPT to governed data Brex improved AI answer accuracy to \~90% Image source: Google **The Rundown:** Google DeepMind just [introduced](https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-synthid-bio/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-1019) SynthID Bio, a proof of concept that extends its AI watermarking tech to proteins, potentially helping DNA suppliers trace unfamiliar designs before filling an order. SynthID Bio tweaks Google’s protein-folding AlphaFold 3 model to leave a hidden pattern in its predicted protein shapes, without reducing prediction accuracy. Google’s lab tests found that proteins with watermarks still worked as intended once produced, with marks still detectable in the physical form. Companies that make custom DNA currently check orders for known threats, but unfamiliar AI designs can need manual review that delays research. The watermark doesn't offer any complete safety guarantees, with Google still working on preventing tampering. **Why it matters:** The debate around watermarking tends to be polarizing, but tracing AI-designed biology seems like it should be far less controversial. The tech’s advances in the lab offer enormous promise for drug discovery, but also feels like a Pandora’s box that needs safeguards in place before the systems outrun our ability to screen them. **QUICK HITS** ▸ **A Rundown reader built a poultry plant's management system with ChatGPT** Today’s workflow comes from an **anonymous Rundown reader**: “I’m the Export and Operations Manager at Supreme Poultry & Chickens, an Australian poultry processing business. My original request to ChatGPT was straightforward: find and track grants that could help us grow our business. As we worked together, I began to see the potential to build a management system that could organise our operations. That led me to discover Sites and the possibility of building our own system. Over roughly ten weeks, working with ChatGPT and Sites, we progressively developed the Supreme Poultry Management System (SPMS). It brings together export enquiries, purchase orders and approvals, assets and maintenance schedules, supplier certificates and HACCP records, and a central 45-day action calendar. Water is one of the most critical factors in our poultry processing business. SPMS receives tank-level readings from a laser-operated monitoring device that transmits data over the 4G network. We placed a water management widget at the top of every SPMS page, keeping that information visible wherever we're working.” *See the full workflow here. How do you use AI? 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