ServiceNow’s $7B Armis Deal Signals Consolidation Amid AI Hype Correction

Executive Summary↑

ServiceNow’s $7 billion play for Armis is the headline today, signaling that platform incumbents are now aggressively absorbing specialized cybersecurity assets to lock in enterprise workflows. This consolidation wave suggests valuations for high-performing security startups will remain elevated as major players seek to integrate AI-driven threat detection directly into their operational stacks. Simultaneously, Nvidia is rewriting the value chain with the release of Nemotron 3. By entering the model-making business, Nvidia is strategically commoditizing the software layer to defend its silicon moat, ensuring open-source AI—which runs best on their hardware—remains competitive against closed-garden ecosystems.

On the macro front, the "Tech Cold War" narrative is hardening. New analysis suggests China’s institutional friction is capping its ability to lead the AI industrial revolution, reinforcing a US-centric capital allocation strategy. However, physical risks remain real, evidenced by a near-miss between Starlink and Chinese launch assets. Finally, investors should note the shifting ESG narrative: emerging data indicates fears regarding data center water consumption are overstated, potentially lowering the regulatory barrier for necessary infrastructure expansion.

- M&A: ServiceNow's $7B acquisition talks with Armis validate the convergence of IT operations and cybersecurity, likely triggering a repricing of security assets. - Strategy: Nvidia's move into open-source models with Nemotron 3 is a defensive pivot to prevent closed-model competitors from eroding demand for its silicon. - Geopolitics: Structural rigidities in China are proving to be a bottleneck for AI innovation, widening the competitive gap with Western markets. - ESG: Revisions in data center water usage estimates suggest environmental regulatory headwinds for AI infrastructure may be less severe than anticipated. - Risk: The orbital near-miss involving Starlink highlights growing physical risks to the satellite communication backbones essential for global connectivity.

Funding & Investment↑

The Great Sobering

If 2023 was the party and 2024 was the hangover, 2025 is shaping up to be the year we finally pay the bill. MIT Technology Review is calling this the "Great AI Hype Correction," and looking at the capital flows this week, they aren't wrong. The days of funding generic wrapper startups on 100x revenue multiples are over. We are seeing a flight to utility—specifically towards companies that own proprietary data, secure the enterprise, or solve physical problems like drug discovery.

IP and Security Command the Premium

The biggest check written this week validates a thesis I’ve held since the dot-com era: content is the only sustainable moat. Disney investing $1 billion in OpenAI while licensing 200 characters for the Sora video app is a watershed moment. Disney isn't just capitulating to generative AI; they are ensuring their balance sheet benefits from the inevitable disruption of their animation pipeline. This mirrors the early streaming wars—if you can’t beat the distribution mechanism, you must own a stake in it.

On the enterprise side, ServiceNow is reportedly in late-stage talks to acquire Armis for up to $7 billion. This deal is significant not just for the price tag, but for the sector. Armis focuses on asset visibility and security—unsexy, critical infrastructure. ServiceNow understands that as AI agents proliferate within Fortune 500 networks, the surface area for cyber threats expands exponentially. A $7 billion valuation for Armis suggests a hefty premium, likely north of 20x ARR, signaling that deep-tech security remains immune to the broader valuation compression.

Specialized Models Defy the Downturn

While generalist models face price wars—evidenced by Hugging Face and Codex moving toward open-sourcing lower-tier coding models—specialized verticals are still minting unicorns. Chai Discovery just raised a $130 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation, backed by OpenAI.

Investors are willing to underwrite this valuation because Chai isn't building a chatbot; they are building foundation models for molecular interaction. The unit economics of shortening the drug discovery timeline by even 10% justifies the price. In contrast, Capgemini’s strategy to drive growth through AI-led operations (bolstered by its $3 billion WNS acquisition) represents the services side of this coin. The market realizes that someone has to actually implement this tech, and Capgemini is positioning itself as the general contractor for the AI build-out.

Looking Beyond the GPU

Finally, smart money is beginning to hedge against Nvidia's dominance. We are seeing increased activity in "Post-GPU compute," with startups like Extropic AI betting on thermodynamic computing and sampling primitives. While these are long-tail bets compared to the massive M&A activity from ServiceNow and Disney, they represent a critical realization: the current energy and capital cost of transformer models is unsustainable. The next 100x return won't come from the next H100 cluster, but from the architecture that makes it obsolete.

Continue Reading:

1. Codex is Open Sourcing AI models — Hugging Face
2. ServiceNow Eyes $7 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Armis — pymnts.com
3. ServiceNow in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis fo... — Livemint
4. Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise ... — feeds.feedburner.com
5. RoboTracer: Mastering Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language ... — arXiv
6. AI-led work stands out as Capgemini India’s growth driver: Capgemini I... — The Times of India
7. Show HN: Bets on Post-GPU Compute — Vishalv.com
8. OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.... — techcrunch.com

Market Trends↑

We are officially entering the "prove it" phase of the AI cycle.

Asian markets dipped Monday, dragging Wall Street futures down with them, as investors digest weak earnings from key players and question the capital expenditure black hole. This aligns perfectly with what MIT Technology Review is calling the "great AI hype correction of 2025." I’ve watched this movie before—in 2000 with fiber optics and 2012 with mobile. The market euphoria evaporates, leaving behind the hard work of actual value creation. We aren't seeing a collapse of the technology, but a collapse of the easy money narrative.

The Geopolitical Fracture

While the market corrects, the global map of innovation is fracturing in ways the consensus view misses. Project Syndicate argues China cannot win the AI-led industrial revolution, citing a lack of free institutions necessary for sustained commercialization. I tend to agree that top-down mandates rarely beat bottom-up chaos in software innovation, but writing off Asia entirely is a mistake.

Look at the periphery. Korean startup Motif is surfacing critical lessons for enterprise LLMs, moving beyond the brute-force scaling laws that define US strategy. Meanwhile, Capgemini India is pivoting its growth strategy entirely to AI-led work, integrating its $3 billion WNS acquisition to service Global Capability Centres. The real story isn't just US vs. China; it's about how specialized hubs like Seoul and Bangalore are finding commercial niches while the superpowers fight over foundation models.

Tools and Infrastructure

In the trenches of application development, lines are blurring. Cursor, the 300-person startup that forced GitHub Copilot to step up its game, is now launching tools for designers. This is a critical signal. We are moving from "AI for coding" to "AI for product creation," collapsing the silos between engineering and design. Expect legacy creative suites to feel significant pressure here.

Finally, a note on the physical constraints of AI: water. Wired released a necessary corrective to the hysteria surrounding data center water consumption. The reality, as is often the case in infrastructure analysis, is far more nuanced than the headlines suggest. Investors dumping data center REITs based on surface-level environmental concerns are likely mispricing the asset class. The constraint is real, but the engineering solutions are already outpacing the problem.

On a housekeeping note, OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Hannah Wong is departing. Executive churn at a company under this much scrutiny is standard, but it adds to the narrative that the chaotic startup culture at OpenAI hasn't fully stabilized into corporate maturity.

Continue Reading:

1. You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong — wired.com
2. Why China Can’t Win the AI-Led Industrial Revolution — Project Syndicate
3. Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise ... — feeds.feedburner.com
4. Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers — wired.com
5. AI-led work stands out as Capgemini India’s growth driver: Capgemini I... — The Times of India
6. Asian markets drop with Wall St as tech fears revive — Digital Journal
7. Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without ... — feeds.feedburner.com
8. OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company — wired.com

Technical Breakthroughs↑

OpenAI’s release of GPT-5.2 is a signal that the pressure from Google and the open-weight community is finally piercing the armor. While the technical specifics highlight incremental improvements in reasoning and context handling, the timing suggests this is a defensive "Code Red" response rather than a purely schedule-driven release. For engineers integrating these models, the key metric to watch here isn't just the benchmark score—it's the inference cost-to-performance ratio compared to the rapidly improving open alternatives.

Speaking of alternatives, Nvidia is making a fascinating, arguably defensive move with Nemotron 3. It’s unusual for the shovel-seller to start digging for gold, but Nvidia needs open-source AI to thrive to ensure workloads stay on GPUs rather than migrating to proprietary silicon like Google's TPUs or AWS Inferentia. By releasing competitive open models, they ensure the ecosystem remains optimized for CUDA. This pairs interestingly with ServiceNow’s Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker, a mid-sized model that punches above its weight class. The industry is realizing that for 90% of enterprise use cases, a tuned 15B parameter model often beats a generic trillion-parameter giant on unit economics.

On the application layer, Mistral is pushing the concept of "vibe coding" (autonomous software engineering), moving past simple autocomplete toward agents that understand architectural intent. This aligns with the "skills training" methodologies Hugging Face is open-sourcing, demystifying how we teach models to code. Meanwhile, Chai Discovery raising $130M confirms that the most valuable vertical for these foundation models remains biology, where predicting molecular interactions offers a clearer ROI than writing marketing copy.

Finally, two pieces of research caught my eye for their cleverness rather than raw scale. Grab-3D offers a new way to detect AI-generated videos by checking for 3D geometric consistency—essentially catching diffusion models breaking the laws of physics. And in a look at what comes next, Extropic AI is betting on "post-GPU" compute based on thermodynamic probability (Gibbs sampling). If current scaling laws hit a power-consumption wall, exotic hardware architectures like this move from fringe science to critical infrastructure.

Continue Reading:

1. Codex is Open Sourcing AI models — Hugging Face
2. Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise ... — feeds.feedburner.com
3. Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3 — wired.com
4. OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’ — wired.com
5. A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary option... — feeds.arstechnica.com
6. Grab-3D: Detecting AI-Generated Videos from 3D Geometric Temporal Cons... — arXiv
7. RoboTracer: Mastering Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language ... — arXiv
8. Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker: Cost-efficient Frontier Multimodal Performance — Hugging Face

Product Launches↑

OpenAI’s Recursive bet and Nvidia’s Defensive Offense

The headline grabbing attention today is OpenAI’s release of GPT-5.2, a move Wired frames as a direct response to a "Code Red" threat from Google. While the version number suggests a mere iteration, the under-the-hood mechanics point to something more aggressive. OpenAI has deployed a new coding agent capable of improving its own codebase.

This is the feedback loop computer scientists have theorized about for decades. By using GPT-5 Codex to refine the agent itself, OpenAI is betting that recursive self-improvement can outpace Google’s massive compute advantage. For developers, this shifts the value proposition from "AI that writes code" to "AI that maintains and evolves architecture." If it works, it creates a moat that’s incredibly difficult for Gemini to cross simply by throwing more TPUs at the problem.

The Silicon Strategy: Nemotron 3

Nvidia is tired of just selling the shovels; now it’s making the maps, too. The chip giant released Nemotron 3, cementing its status as a major model maker. This isn't vanity. As Wired notes, Nvidia needs open-source AI to thrive because closed ecosystems (like Google’s Gemini or Apple’s Intelligence) increasingly run on proprietary silicon like TPUs or Apple Silicon.

By releasing a powerful open model optimized for its own hardware, Nvidia ensures that the path of least resistance for developers still leads through an H100 GPU. It’s a brilliant defensive maneuver: commoditize the model layer to protect the margin on the compute layer.

Workflow Meets Security

In the enterprise sector, the lines between operations and security are blurring. ServiceNow is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire Armis for up to $7 billion. Armis specializes in asset visibility and security for connected devices—an area that has become a nightmare for IT managers dealing with IoT sprawl.

For ServiceNow, this isn't just about buying revenue. It’s about acknowledging that you can’t automate workflows for devices you can’t see or secure. If the deal closes, it positions ServiceNow as the central nervous system for enterprise hardware, not just the ticketing system for when it breaks.

Bridging the Designer-Developer Gap

Finally, Cursor—the AI code editor that has been quietly stealing market share from VS Code—is moving upstream. The startup launched new tools specifically for designers. This is a smart play to own the entire product development lifecycle.

Currently, the handoff between Figma designs and React code is where products often lose their soul (and their timeline). By letting designers use AI to implement frontend logic directly, Cursor is betting that the distinction between "designer" and "frontend engineer" will become increasingly irrelevant.

Continue Reading:

1. Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband sat... — Theregister.com
2. Why China Can’t Win the AI-Led Industrial Revolution — Project Syndicate
3. ServiceNow Eyes $7 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Armis — pymnts.com
4. ServiceNow in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis fo... — Livemint
5. Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise ... — feeds.feedburner.com
6. Nvidia Becomes a Major Model Maker With Nemotron 3 — wired.com
7. OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 as It Navigates ‘Code Red’ — wired.com
8. Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers — wired.com

Research & Development↑

The Post-Transformer Era Is Getting Hybrid

We are finally seeing the cracks in the "Transformer is all you need" orthodoxy. For years, the industry simply scaled the same architecture, but diminishing returns on efficiency are forcing R&D teams to get creative.

Nvidia just dropped the most significant signal here with Nemotron 3. While the 30B parameter size is standard, the architecture is not—it’s a hybrid Mixture of Experts (MoE) combined with a Mamba-Transformer stack. Mamba (based on State Space Models) handles long sequences significantly more efficiently than standard Transformers. By integrating this into their frontier models, Nvidia is betting that the future of agentic AI—which requires processing massive amounts of context without bankrupting the user—relies on moving beyond pure attention mechanisms.

Simultaneously, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is attacking the input layer with Bolmo. They are ditching tokenizers entirely for byte-level training. Tokenizers have always been the brittle, "hacky" part of LLMs—they struggle with typos, code, and low-resource languages. A byte-level approach is computationally heavier upfront but yields models that are far more robust in messy, real-world enterprise environments.

Takeaway: We are moving toward specialized architectures. Pure Transformers are becoming the legacy code of AI.

Biology Is the New SaaS

If you want to know where the smart "patient capital" is going, look at Chai Discovery. They just closed a $130 million Series B at a $1.3 billion valuation, backed by OpenAI.

The thesis here is straightforward but difficult to execute: reprogramming biology. Chai is building foundation models specifically to predict molecular interactions. Unlike generating marketing copy, where hallucination is a nuisance, in drug discovery, accuracy is the difference between a cure and a failed clinical trial. The valuation suggests investors believe Chai has cracked the code on data quality, which has historically been the bottleneck for bio-models.

Global Signals & Metalinguistics

The U.S. and China don't own the monopoly on enterprise deployment. Korean startup Motif is proving that regional players can carve out significant niches by focusing on specific enterprise pain points rather than general AGI. Their recent release emphasizes practical training lessons over raw scale, a maturity signal for the Korean market.

Finally, a fascinating development in interpretability: Wired reports that models have gained "metalinguistic" abilities—they can analyze language mechanics as well as human experts. This matters because a model that understands why a sentence is grammatically complex is better equipped to self-correct and reason. It pushes us closer to systems that can debug their own outputs, a critical step for deploying AI in high-stakes industries like law or compliance.

Continue Reading:

1. Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise ... — feeds.feedburner.com
2. OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.... — techcrunch.com
3. Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without ... — feeds.feedburner.com
4. Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 with hybrid MoE and Mamba-Transformer to driv... — feeds.feedburner.com
5. For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert — wired.com
6. I-Scene: 3D Instance Models are Implicit Generalizable Spatial Learner... — arXiv
7. Embedding-Based Rankings of Educational Resources based on Learning Ou... — arXiv
8. Comparative Analysis of LLM Abliteration Methods: A Cross-Architecture... — arXiv

From the Research Lab↑

Theme 1: The "Uncanny Valley" in Video Generation—Closing the Gap

JoVA: Unified Multimodal Learning for Joint Video-Audio Generation Why it matters: Current video generation models (like Sora or Runway) often produce "silent movies" or rely on disjointed post-production for sound. Summary: JoVA presents a unified framework that generates video and audio simultaneously, notably achieving synchronized human speech—a notorious hurdle for existing models. By treating audio-visual data as a joint probability distribution, it creates more cohesive and realistic media assets.

DiffusionBrowser: Interactive Diffusion Previews via Multi-Branch Decoders Why it matters: High-quality video generation is computationally expensive and slow, creating a poor user experience where creators wait minutes to see if a prompt worked. Summary: This paper proposes a lightweight "preview" mechanism that allows users to see rough drafts of generated video in near real-time before committing to the full, expensive rendering process. It essentially brings the "thumbnail" concept to the generative workflow, drastically improving iteration speed for creatives.

Grab-3D: Detecting AI-Generated Videos from 3D Geometric Temporal Consistency Why it matters: As generation tools (like JoVA above) improve, the risk of deepfakes escalates. Current detectors look for pixel artifacts, which models are learning to hide. Summary: Instead of looking at surface-level pixels, this method analyzes the 3D physics of a video. It detects deepfakes by identifying subtle inconsistencies in how objects move through 3D space over time—geometric flaws that are invisible to the human eye but computationally obvious.

Investigator Take: We are seeing the generative video stack mature. We are moving from "wow factor" demos to practical workflows (DiffusionBrowser) and complete modalities (JoVA). However, the cat-and-mouse game of detection (Grab-3D) suggests that identity verification will remain a critical sector for investment.

Theme 2: Spatial Intelligence & Robotics

RoboTracer: Mastering Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language Models Why it matters: Large Language Models (LLMs) are great at poetry but historically terrible at understanding physical distances and spatial directions, limiting their use in robotics. Summary: This paper introduces a method for "spatial tracing," allowing robots to reason about multi-step physical instructions involving precise measurements. It effectively bridges the gap between a Vision-Language Model's high-level reasoning and a robot's need for low-level, metric-grounded movement.

I-Scene: 3D Instance Models are Implicit Generalizable Spatial Learners Why it matters: creating 3D environments (for gaming or the metaverse) usually requires massive datasets of full scenes, which are scarce. Summary: The authors propose a clever workaround: instead of training on expensive full scenes, they "reprogram" models trained on individual objects (instances) to generate complex layouts. It’s a capital-efficient approach to 3D generation that improves generalization without requiring massive new datasets.

LitePT: Lighter Yet Stronger Point Transformer Why it matters: Processing 3D data (point clouds) is critical for autonomous driving and AR, but it is notoriously heavy on compute. Summary: Through a rigorous ablation study, the authors optimize the architecture of 3D processing networks. They discover that lightweight convolutions handle local geometry better than heavy attention mechanisms, leading to a model that is both faster and more accurate than current transformers.

Theme 3: The Human Element—Avatars & Safety

Towards Interactive Intelligence for Digital Humans (Mio) Summary: Moving beyond static chatbots, this paper introduces "Mio," a framework for digital avatars that possess personality traits and "self-evolution"—meaning they adapt their behavior over time based on interactions. Significance: For investors in customer experience (CX) and gaming, this points toward a future where AI agents aren't just text boxes, but emotionally responsive, visual personas that retain context and "grow" alongside the user.

Comparative Analysis of LLM Abliteration Methods Summary: "Abliteration" refers to techniques used to surgically remove safety guardrails (refusal mechanisms) from LLMs without retraining them. This paper benchmarks these methods across different architectures. Significance: While this has dual-use implications (bad actors bypassing safety), it is vital for researchers conducting "red teaming" (adversarial testing) to understand how fragile current safety alignments really are. It highlights that current safety filters are essentially surface-level patches rather than deep-rooted behavioral constraints.

Towards Scalable Pre-training of Visual Tokenizers Summary: Visual tokenizers are the translators that turn images into code for AI models. This paper argues current translators focus too much on pixel-perfect reconstruction rather than semantic meaning. Significance: This is a "plumbing" paper, but a crucial one. Improving the tokenizer improves the fundamental quality of the latent space, meaning future image/video generation models could be significantly more semantically accurate (understanding what they are drawing) rather than just visually clear.

Continue Reading:

1. Grab-3D: Detecting AI-Generated Videos from 3D Geometric Temporal Cons... — arXiv
2. RoboTracer: Mastering Spatial Trace with Reasoning in Vision-Language ... — arXiv
3. LitePT: Lighter Yet Stronger Point Transformer — arXiv
4. JoVA: Unified Multimodal Learning for Joint Video-Audio Generation — arXiv
5. Towards Interactive Intelligence for Digital Humans — arXiv
6. I-Scene: 3D Instance Models are Implicit Generalizable Spatial Learner... — arXiv
7. Embedding-Based Rankings of Educational Resources based on Learning Ou... — arXiv
8. Comparative Analysis of LLM Abliteration Methods: A Cross-Architecture... — arXiv

Regulation & Policy↑

Orbital mechanics pay no mind to geopolitics, but the regulatory implications of a near-miss in space are squarely on the docket. A SpaceX executive reported that a Chinese launch vehicle recently passed within 200 meters of a Starlink satellite—a margin of error that is effectively zero at orbital velocities. This incident highlights the dangerous vacuum in binding international space traffic management; the 1967 Outer Space Treaty mandates "due regard" but offers zero mechanism for enforcement or coordination. For investors in the burgeoning space economy, the risk isn't just debris—it’s the lack of a legal framework to prevent billion-dollar assets from becoming unintended kinetic projectiles.

Back on Earth, a new paper on "LLM Abliteration" is dismantling the technical assumptions behind current AI safety regulation. Researchers detailed methods to strip learned "refusal behaviors" from models, effectively removing the digital conscience that prevents an AI from generating harmful content. This poses a severe challenge to the EU AI Act and pending US legislation, which largely rely on pre-release safety testing. If safety guardrails can be surgically removed by downstream users to "enable legitimate research," the liability shield for open-weight model developers becomes dangerously thin. We are moving toward a legal environment where the modification tools, rather than the base models, may become the primary target of enforcement.

Continue Reading:

1. Starlink claims Chinese launch came within 200 meters of broadband sat... — Theregister.com
2. Comparative Analysis of LLM Abliteration Methods: A Cross-Architecture... — arXiv
3. [How should kratom be regulated? [PODCAST]](https://kevinmd.com/2025/12/how-should-kratom-be-regulated-podcast.html) — Kevinmd.com
4. Towards Scalable Pre-training of Visual Tokenizers for Generation — arXiv

AI Safety & Alignment↑

The Double-Edged Sword of "Abliteration"

The most significant technical paper on my radar today comes from arXiv, detailing a cross-architecture evaluation of LLM "abliteration" methods. This research strikes at the core of a persistent tension in our field: safety mechanisms that prevent harmful outputs often hinder legitimate stress-testing.

The authors explore techniques to surgically remove learned refusal behaviors—essentially turning off the model's conscience—to enable cognitive modeling and adversarial testing. While essential for red-teaming (we can't patch vulnerabilities we can't find), publishing effective methods to bypass safety training lowers the barrier for misuse. This paper confirms that refusal mechanisms in current architectures remain somewhat superficial layers rather than deeply ingrained values, a structural weakness we have yet to solve.

Infrastructure is Safety

On the enterprise side, ServiceNow’s reported $7 billion move to acquire Armis highlights a critical, often overlooked layer of AI security: asset visibility. While safety researchers obsess over model weights, practical security failures often start with unmanaged devices.

Armis specializes in identifying every device on a network. As organizations rush to deploy on-premise AI or integrate agents into internal workflows, "shadow IT" becomes a massive liability. You cannot secure an AI deployment if you don't know what hardware it touches. This acquisition suggests the market is waking up to the reality that AI safety isn't just about alignment algorithms—it's about hardening the physical and digital perimeter where these systems live.

Synchronized Risk

Finally, the release of the JoVA framework (Joint Video-Audio Generation) pushes generative capabilities into uncomfortable territory. While previous models struggled to match ambient sound with video, JoVA specifically targets human speech synchronization.

From a risk perspective, synchronized speech has been a primary heuristic for detecting deepfakes; glitches in lip movement or audio timing are dead giveaways. As frameworks like JoVA close this gap, reliance on visual artifacts for detection becomes obsolete. We need to accelerate provenance standards and watermarking immediately, as biological detection cues are rapidly expiring.

Continue Reading:

1. ServiceNow Eyes $7 Billion Deal for Cybersecurity Startup Armis — pymnts.com
2. ServiceNow in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Armis fo... — Livemint
3. JoVA: Unified Multimodal Learning for Joint Video-Audio Generation — arXiv
4. Transforming Nordic classrooms through responsible AI partnerships — Google AI
5. Embedding-Based Rankings of Educational Resources based on Learning Ou... — arXiv
6. Comparative Analysis of LLM Abliteration Methods: A Cross-Architecture... — arXiv
7. Towards Scalable Pre-training of Visual Tokenizers for Generation — arXiv
8. Beyond surface form: A pipeline for semantic analysis in Alzheimer's D... — arXiv

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