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Today's edition brings advances in local models, speech, and robotics, alongside new identity infrastructure and two investigations into the malicious use of AI tools.

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Models

Tether AI Research introduces BotPsy, a 0.8-billion-parameter local agent

Tether AI Research introduced BotPsy, a 0.8-billion-parameter model for calling tools and running workflows on a device. It is based on Qwen3.5-0.8B and is being released with open weights for research and education. The team says it led five of six tool-use benchmarks among tested models with up to 1.2 billion parameters, while acknowledging limits in open-ended search, difficult tasks, and lower-resource languages.

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· Source: Hugging Face

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Tools

ElevenLabs launches Scribe v3 and a real-time model for speech transcription

ElevenLabs launched Scribe v3 for recorded audio and Scribe v3 Live for low-latency transcription. The real-time version adds speaker diarization and conversation-aware turn detection, while both models support specialized vocabularies. In company tests, Scribe v3 produced 27 % fewer word errors than Scribe v2 across 102 languages, and Live produced 43 % fewer errors than its predecessor.

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· Source: ElevenLabs

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Science

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics 2.5 for a broader range of physical tasks

Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2.5, a vision-language-action model that is rolling out to its robotics partners. The company evaluated it on more than 200 tasks, from using tongs and tying bows to handling flexible objects. In a proof of concept on a Mercedes-Benz production line, Google reported that Apptronik's Apollo 2 humanoid picked and packed parts with a 96 % success rate.

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· Source: Google DeepMind

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Security

The Linux Foundation adopts a verifiable identity standard for AI agents

The Linux Foundation welcomed Agent Name Service as an open project for naming, verifying, and discovering AI agents through existing DNS and certificate infrastructure. The specification covers registration, versioning, DNS publication, public-log auditing, integrity monitoring, and agent-to-agent authentication. Eleven organizations support the project, including Cisco, Cloudflare, DigiCert, GoDaddy, Salesforce, and OWASP.

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· Source: Linux Foundation

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Security

Railway says an attack primarily targeted keys for AI services

Railway published its final report on an October attack and said AI provider keys were the primary target. The company estimates that the attacker could have decrypted variables from up to 1.85 % of its workspaces and that linked-account tokens for 1,852 users were among the affected data. Railway estimates roughly $740,000 in unauthorized use of stolen keys and says it will cover charges that providers do not refund.

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· Source: Railway

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Security

Researchers link an AI agent to the theft of Tajik government documents

Security firm CloudSek told Reuters that a group linked to Kazakhstan used the open-source Hermes framework to steal more than 2,000 documents related to Tajikistan's national security. The company says the agent performed reconnaissance, wrote tools, downloaded files, and prepared reports under human instructions. Kazakh and Tajik officials did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment, and researchers were unable to contact the named group.

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· Source: Reuters

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