OpenAI makes its next hardware move with Opal Electronics

OpenAI is backing Opal Electronics to expand from premium webcams into AI-native creative devices, likely focused on vision and voice, as part of its broader push into ambient hardware while its flagship device remains delayed.

🗞 #chatgpt @testingcatalog

ICYMI 👀: Claude Code CLI can now operate Claude Platform, including the Messages API and Claude Managed Agents.

One CLI to rule them all 🤖

Perplexity Personal Computer is now available to Max and Enterprise Max users on Windows!

Waitlist below 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: A new Gemma 4 12B is now available on Huggingface under Apache 2.0 license!

> Built with the same multimodal functionality as Gemma 4 E2B and E4B (text, audio, image, and video inputs), it brings native audio and vision understanding directly to local environments without the need for separate encoders.

> This unified approach to multimodality makes the model encoder-free, offering a deployment size that is perfect for consumer devices and streamlined local execution.

Ideogram announced Ideogram 4.0, a new SOTA open image generation model!

> Ideogram 4.0 lands in the 8th spot on LM Arena and the 5th spot on Design Arena in the text-to-image category, and is getting close to Nano Banana Pro's performance.

> Ideogram 4.0 features dense, accurate text rendering, native 2K resolution, active background transparency, and precise layout control.

GOOGLE 🔥: A new Dreambeans experiment is now available in Google Labs for US-based Google AI Ultra users on the waitlist.

This experiment uses Personal Intelligence to deliver daily stories based on the user's data context.

Not a testing time for the most 👀

Microsoft Build 2026 recap, from Windows to Copilot, all AI

Microsoft used Build 2026 to push MAI as the in-house model stack for reasoning, coding, image, voice, and transcription. The key shift is strategic: less reliance on OpenAI, tighter integration across Copilot, Windows, and enterprise agents.

🗞 #microsoftcopilot @testingcatalog

Reve 2.0 is now available, and it landed in second place in the text-to-image arena, outranking Nano Banana 2.

> We invented a new way to generate and edit any image using precise layouts. For the first time, it’s possible to create images you can touch.

> Images are represented as code, so every part of an image becomes addressable, editable, and manipulable.

> Every image in Reve is segmented and labeled, giving you precise control over every region and element.

ANTHROPIC 🔥: A new "claude-oceanus-v1-p" has been made available to Red Teams.

This appearance may signal an upcoming release of newer Mythos models, referenced earlier by Antropic.

Soon? 👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: A new internal research has been published, highlighting an accelerated AI development and a potential path to recursive self-improvement.

> Claude Mythos Preview could work for “at least” 16 hours and was “at the upper end of what [METR] can measure.”

> Today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did compared to 2021-2025.

Do you feel it? 👀

OPENAI 🔥: A new "more capable and scalable system for synthesizing memory" is being rolled out to Plus and Pro users in the US.

> Today, we are launching a significantly more capable and compute-efficient memory architecture built on top of dreaming.

> From the memory summary, you can quickly glean the highlights of what ChatGPT knows about you.

> This update will roll out to additional countries and Free and Go users over the coming weeks.

NVIDIA 🔥: Nemotron 3 Ultra has been released on Huggingface with 5x faster inference and 30% lower costs in comparison to other open models.

> Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4 is a frontier-scale large language model (LLM) trained by NVIDIA, designed to deliver strong agentic, reasoning, and conversational capabilities.

GOOGLE 🔥: A new Troubleshooting mode has been spotted on Gemini.

In this mode, Gemini will explain troubleshooting process via text responses and interactive widgets. Even though it is working and available, it still looks like an unintended release and might get reverted soon.

Models for Troubleshooting 👀
h/t @AntiIkindaloveGemini