🚀 From Browsers to Biology: AI Breaks New Ground

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If it feels like every major tech company is racing to stuff AI into their products… that’s because they are. Today we’ve got Google leveling up Chrome, AI designing entirely new viruses (yep, really), and a video model that critiques its own work like a snobby film director. Let’s dive in. 🚀

🌐 Google Bakes Gemini Into Chrome

AI in every tab
Google just made its biggest AI move yet: embedding Gemini right inside Chrome for U.S. desktop users.

The details:

• Chrome now has a native Gemini button for cross-tab analysis without tab-hopping.

• The address bar is getting an “AI Mode” this month, letting you ask multi-step, follow-up questions right where you search.

• Coming soon: full agentic powers — think Chrome handling your grocery shopping or booking appointments automatically.

Why it matters: Forget AI add-on browsers. With Chrome holding ~65% of the market, Google just made the AI sidebar as standard as the search bar. 🧨

🧬 AI Creates First Synthetic Viruses

Lab-grown by algorithm
Stanford and the Arc Institute trained an AI called Evo on 2M viruses — and asked it to invent new ones. The result: 16 fully functioning, bacteria-killing viruses never before seen in nature.

The details:

• Out of 302 designs, 16 worked in lab tests.

• Some featured 392 mutations that human scientists had failed to engineer.

• One even incorporated a distant viral component researchers couldn’t previously pull off.

• AI-designed viruses bypassed bacterial resistance in days, where natural viruses failed.

Why it matters: This is biology’s ChatGPT moment. We’ve moved from sequencing genomes… to designing them from scratch. 🌍

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🎬 Luma’s Ray3 Video Model

AI with a director’s chair
Meet Ray3 — Luma’s new video model that generates native HDR footage and critiques its own outputs before finalizing.

The details:

• Produces studio-quality HDR video exportable into pro editing tools.

• Draft Mode: 20-second previews at 1/5 cost, with upgrades to 4K HDR in minutes.

• Sketch directly on frames to guide movement and camera angles.

• Iterates automatically until results hit cinematic standards.

Why it matters: Luma just made AI video smarter and cheaper. A reasoning model that polishes its own work is basically your AI director, cinematographer, and editor rolled into one. 🎥✨

📰 Other News

• 💻 Nvidia + Intel are co-developing x86 processors for AI + PC products, with Nvidia throwing $5B into Intel.

• 🛒 Amazon added agentic AI to its Seller Assistant, now managing inventory, account health, and growth tasks.

• 📝 Notion 3.0 dropped with AI agents that can run 20-minute workflows and tap integrated tools.

• 📑 Meta is in talks with Axel Springer, Fox, and News Corp for AI content licensing deals.

• ⚠️ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei put the odds of AI catastrophe at 25%. (So, uh… sleep well tonight?)

💻 Mastery tools of the day

• Crevas - Generate videos in one canvas with AI

• Ray3 - Luma AI’s new reasoning video model with studio-grade outputs

• Mocke - Know your reply rate in 1 minute without launching

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• The Humanoid Thesis

• Hype is a Business Tool

• AI Is Learning to Predict the Future—And Beating Humans at It

• When Being Incorrect Became the Internet's Best Business Model

• Since Leaving Washington, Elon Musk Has Been All In on His AI Company

• China's Brain Implant Startups Take On Musk's Neuralink in New Tech Race

• Sold on Walmart, sent by Amazon: The weird new world of online retail

• To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is turning to AI and genetic research

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✨ That’s a Wrap!

That’s all for today’s dose of Not So Artificial. If you loved it, share it with a friend who’s still stuck in non-AI Chrome.

Catch you tomorrow,
— The NSA Team