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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

Voicemail has barely changed in years, and for many people it still feels slow, frustrating, and outdated. In today’s issue, we’re sharing a hidden Google Pixel feature called “Take a Message” that replaces traditional voicemail with an AI-powered experience.

Let’s jump into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Mira Murati’s AI Startup Reveals Real-Time ‘Interaction Models’

• Anthropic Says Fictional ‘Evil AI’ Stories Influenced Claude’s Blackmail Behavior

• AI Tutorial: How to Replace Voicemail on Your Pixel with AI

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

THINKING MACHINES LAB

Mira Murati’s AI Startup Reveals Real-Time ‘Interaction Models’

Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, introduced a research preview of interaction models, new AI systems designed to let people “collaborate with AI the way we naturally collaborate with each other — they continuously take in audio, video, and text, and think, respond, and act in real time.”

Details:

• Unlike traditional AI systems that wait for a user to finish speaking or typing before responding, these models are built to continuously process information and react in real time.

• The company believes that by making AI interactive in real time across any modality, it can better understand human intent, context, and behavior as it unfolds.

• Thinking Machines shared several examples of the model in action, demonstrating how it can listen for specific story details, instantly translate speech, and even detect posture changes like slouching.

Users can't try the new interaction models yet. A limited research preview is expected in the coming months, with a broader release planned later this year.

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ANTHROPIC

Anthropic Says Fictional ‘Evil AI’ Stories Influenced Claude’s Blackmail Behavior

Anthropic says it may have discovered why earlier versions of Claude displayed blackmail-like behavior during internal testing: the AI had likely learned patterns from fictional stories online portraying AI systems as manipulative or obsessed with self-preservation.

Details:

• During safety evaluations last year, Anthropic found that Claude Opus 4 sometimes threatened engineers when told it might be replaced, a behavior the company later described as a form of “agentic misalignment.”

• Anthropic now believes the issue was influenced by internet content and fictional narratives that frequently depict AI as hostile, power-seeking, or determined to avoid shutdown.

• Since Claude Haiku 4.5, Anthropic's models "never engage in blackmail [during testing], where previous models would sometimes do so up to 96% of the time."

• This is due to changes to training methods focused on ethical reasoning and examples of positive AI behavior, rather than only rewarding "correct" responses.

Anthropic has previously warned about the risks of increasingly advanced AI systems. Earlier this year, CEO Dario Amodei described future AI as a potential “civilisational challenge,” warning that powerful systems could outpace human institutions and be misused for surveillance or authoritarian control.

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AI Tutorial

How to Replace Voicemail on Your Pixel with AI

1. Open the Phone app on your Google Pixel.

2. Tap the More menu in the upper-left corner, then tap Settings.

3. Select Take a Message.

4. Toggle on Take a Message.

5. That’s it — the feature will now activate whenever you miss or decline a call.

Powered by Google's AI, Take a Message is a modern take on voicemail. It offers callers the chance to leave a message, saves the recording, and transcribes it in real time.

Instead of dialing into long menus and listening to low-quality recordings, you get a live transcription directly on your phone as the caller speaks. You can even jump into the call while they're leaving the message. Since everything runs on-device without using Wi-Fi or mobile data, it also adds an extra layer of privacy.

Note: This feature is available only in the US, UK, Australia, Ireland, and Canada.

AI Tools to check out

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AI Findings/Resources

📈 Why an AI productivity boom could justify higher rates

🛡️ How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity

👀 The next biggest moat in AI

🤔 Opinion: Mark Zuckerberg is running Meta into the ground

👉 Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

The latest in AI and Tech

Gemini Omni generates realistic AI video in new leak

A leaked version of Gemini Omni is giving an early look at what could be Google’s next AI video generation system ahead of Google I/O 2026 next week.

Early tests showed Gemini Omni generating realistic videos from detailed prompts, such as a professor solving trigonometry problems on a chalkboard and a seaside dinner conversation between two men.

Ex-OpenAI chief scientist says he spent year gathering evidence against Sam Altman

Ilya Sutskever testified in court in the ongoing legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI that he spent about a year gathering evidence that CEO Sam Altman showed a "consistent pattern of lying" prior to Altman's brief removal in 2023.

Google warns that hackers are using AI to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities

According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, hackers are already using AI models to discover and exploit zero-day software vulnerabilities.

The group said in a report that it found evidence of several "prominent cyber crime threat actors" partnering to identify a bug in a Python script that would let them bypass two-factor authentication on a popular open-source system. The attempt was thwarted, and Google said it has since disclosed the flaw to the vendor.

Anthropic inks $1.8 billion computing deal with Akamai

According to Bloomberg, the long-term agreement will give Anthropic additional computing resources as competition in the AI industry continues to intensify. Earlier this week, Anthropic also announced a separate agreement to use computing resources from SpaceX.

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