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A company called Tavus is making a striking claim about its new Griffin AI model — that in one-minute video calls, twenty-six out of fifty-four participants believed they were talking to a real human being. Those are the company's own numbers, and the model isn't available to the public yet, so independent scrutiny is limited. Still, the result raises serious questions about how we verify identity in a world where a face on a screen may no longer be reliable evidence of a person behind it.
Shifting to the road, EVgo has announced that ultra-fast electric vehicle charging stations capable of delivering up to seven hundred fifty kilowatts will begin launching across the United States in two thousand twenty-seven. That kind of power could top up a compatible vehicle in under ten minutes. The catch is that China is already pushing toward megawatt-level charging, meaning the gap in infrastructure ambition between the two countries remains wide.
And from the extreme end of engineering ambition, NASA's DAVINCI probe has passed a critical heat test. The descent probe, designed to plunge through Venus's crushing atmosphere, survived simulated conditions during a two-week trial. It's a quiet but meaningful milestone for a mission that will ask some genuinely hard questions about our nearest planetary neighbor.
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