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A growing number of biotech companies are marketing options aimed at prolonging pets' lives, including longevity drugs, pet cloning services, and cryonic preservation. Separately, age-restriction laws meant to keep minors off social media are proving easy to bypass, based on early results from Australia's 2024 ban, even as France, the UK and the EU pursue similar measures.
Companies including Loyal are testing longevity drugs for dogs, with one trial involving roughly 1,300 pet dogs in the US targeting metabolic health, alongside other firms developing treatments for age-related conditions like obesity and osteoarthritis, and even cat longevity medicines. Separately, Viagen Pets offers pet cloning for $50,000, producing a genetic twin rather than an exact replica by implanting a pet's DNA into a donor egg and growing it in a surrogate.
A commentator tracking AI-built software says several vibecoded Photoshop alternatives now exist, built using agentic coding tools rather than a single prompt. The author argues this disproves the earlier claim that no viable clones of industry-standard tools like Photoshop could be produced through AI-assisted coding, noting the clones can be verified against real benchmarks such as layers, blend modes, smart objects and PSD file compatibility.
A Tokyo court found that a TikTok account used AI to replicate the voice of veteran anime actor Kenjiro Tsuda in narration videos posted between July 2024 and late 2025, ruling this violated his publicity rights. The court declined to order removal of the videos since the anonymous account had already been deleted. Tsuda's legal team had argued the account's 200,000-plus followers were drawn by hearing a recognizable star's voice narrate lurid content, while TikTok countered the voice was merely generic.
Scientists built bispecific antibody constructs that link cell-surface receptors such as AT1R, APJ, A2AR and CCR6 to transferrin receptor 1, redirecting the GPCRs into internalization and degradation pathways. The constructs, described through detailed plasmid and vector engineering, used nanobody and scFv binding domains along with modified antibody Fc regions to test this trafficking-based antagonism approach in cell-based reporter assays.
Fideuram chairman Paolo Molesini was deceived by a fake WhatsApp message posing as Intesa Sanpaolo CEO Carlo Messina and a follow-up call using an AI-generated voice impersonating a law firm partner. Believing the request was legitimate, Fideuram wired €95 million to accounts in China and Hong Kong before staff spotted irregularities. Authorities in Italy, Portugal and China helped recover €53 million, and Molesini has since resigned.
ElevenLabs released two new speech models, v4 and v4 Turbo, adding expanded expression control, faster voice cloning from just 10 seconds of audio, and support for over 90 languages, up from 70. The company said quality improved most notably in Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin and Cantonese, and the new models offer lower latency aimed at voice agent applications.
Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, new text-to-speech models that can generate custom voices from text descriptions, replicate a voice from a 30-second sample with permission, and follow directions for accent, pacing, emotion and multi-speaker dialogue. The models support over 100 languages and more than 2,000 ready-made voices, and are rolling out in Gemini Notebook and Google Vids as well as to developers via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API.
Researchers report on a plant species that reproduces sexually yet generates offspring with clone-like genetic uniformity, a pattern documented in a study published via Nature. The finding challenges the usual expectation that sexual reproduction increases genetic diversity among offspring.
An investigation identified more than 80,000 AI relay servers that allow users in China to obscure their location and identity while querying frontier large language models hosted in the US. The relays effectively let these users bypass geographic and access restrictions placed on advanced AI systems.
New research indicates that scammers using AI-generated voices that mimic a target's own accent are more effective at deceiving victims than generic synthetic voices. The findings suggest that accent-matching adds a layer of perceived familiarity and trust that makes fraudulent calls more convincing.
Scientists engineered synthetic protein assemblies from the bottom up that can package and transport RNA molecules into human cells, using standard molecular cloning and transfection techniques in HEK293T cell lines. They validated the approach with a split-luciferase reporter system to confirm successful RNA delivery and functional expression inside cells.