lazarus got a new update lol
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
Was a frequent user, biggest issue was the people solving problems started using AI rather than actually solving the questions right. Immediately stopped paying since I could use chatgpt to get the same response. If only they enforced no ai answers. Could have survived.
🚨Chegg $CHGG is now down 99% from its peak because AI has killed its business entirely.
Chegg was a $14.7 billion edtech company that charged students $20 a month for homework answers from a database of 79 million solutions built over a decade.
Then ChatGPT launched in November 2022. Five months later Chegg's CEO admitted it was destroying their business. The stock dropped 48% in a single day.
Revenue dropped 49% by Q4 2025. Subscribers collapsed from 5 million to under 3 million. The company fired 67% of its staff in two rounds last year and shut down all US and Canada offices.
AI does the same thing instantly for free and explains the concept behind it.
It went From $14.7 billion marketcap to $114 million in 39 months.
The first company to be officially killed by AI.
Built x402Create.
Create nft collections and have users mint using x402.
@opensea Seadrop native. It uses a selfhosted facilitator to perform transaction fulfilment.
@chrismaddern what do you think?
github.com/agentjacker/x402c…
I won’t be surprised if most of the “ai” auditors are basically a modified version of hound by @muellerberndt 🤷♂️
Sherlock AI reported a Critical vulnerability in the @40acresFinance protocol.
The 40acres team generously allowed us to share the details publicly so others can learn from the finding.
Here’s how the vulnerability worked:
First, veNFTs are a special type of vote-escrowed ERC721 tokens that earn weekly rewards.
40acres gives veNFT holders instant access to loans based on their veNFT’s future revenue.
Each borrower’s veNFT sits inside a personal PortfolioAccount that routes functionality through modular “facets” using the diamond proxy pattern.
The exploit allows an attacker to reclaim their collateral (veNFT) from their PortfolioAccount without repaying the loan.
Check out the aerodromeVote() function below. 40acres has a very cool feature that allows borrowers to vote with their veNFTs held as collateral in 40acres.
The function has the following problem: The loanContract address is not validated, allowing a malicious user to specify an arbitrary contract. This contract could be approved to control the veNFT in the PortfolioAccount, enabling its transfer during the vote() call in the malicious loanContract.
Attack Steps
1) Attacker deploys a malicious contract that implements ILoan.vote(uint256) to call transferFrom/safeTransferFrom to transfer the approved veNFT.
2) Attacker calls portfolioAccount.aerodromeVote(maliciousContract, tokenId). The portfolio fallback delegates to the facet, which lacks input validation and calls maliciousContract.vote(tokenId) and transfers the veNFT back to the attacker, even though the loan has not been repaid.
Note: The repetition of the bug causes the lending pool to be drained - doing it once is just taking a loan & stealing your veNFT back.
Impact
Unbacked loans across the system. Any borrower can reclaim their own collateral mid-loan, leading to full insolvency of the lending pool.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to @defsec_, @vinica_boy, and @onthehunt11_ for helping with this writeup.
Important to know: The 40acres team discovered the bug and applied a fix prior to launch
Detected by Sherlock AI
You can see the original issue as generated by Sherlock AI in the next tweet.
The run took 3 hours 59 minutes from start to finish.
Sherlock AI brings security to the development process, scanning commits and call paths early, surfacing high-impact flaws fast, and giving auditors clearer visibility into complex systems. In practice, that means issues like this can be caught and resolved long before audits, bounties, or deployment.
Try Sherlock AI for your protocol today.
Blowing my mind how @jack bitchat is going to be useful. Also why is the gov so interested in people chats. If the countries in EU had their own currencies I doubt the countries would be interested in people’s shit
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
i feel when your making an ai startup you have to raise fast or get eaten out by the top competitors. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Zero point of this take tho! They made over half a billion dollars and I don’t think they even raised vc. Imo a great win for them.
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