Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork globally for Microsoft 365

Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork worldwide for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers, enabling secure, long-running task automation across documents, data, and workflows with multi-model support, plugins, browser actions, and usage-based billing.

🗞 #microsoftcopilot @testingcatalog

ICYMI: ZAI launches GLM-5.2 open model with 1M context

Z AI launched GLM-5.2, an open-weights coding model for repo-scale work, with 1M-token context, 128K output, stronger long-horizon coding and debugging, and support across coding agents and API-based developer tooling.

🗞 #zai @testingcatalog

Midjourney announced its first hardware product, a full-body ultrasonic scanner.

Besides that, Midjourney is working on 4 new hardware and 4 new software projects.

Midjourney Medical 👀

Mistral AI to get Code and Apps features on Vibe

MISTRAL AI 🔥: Vibe is being prepared to get a new Code section, likely mirroring functionality of Vibe CLI, and a new Apps section.

> It is still unclear whether we will get a desktop app as well, but it would be really cool. Purely referencing the UI that mirrors the Claude app (Which is about to change soon, btw)

> A new Apps section is marked as "Work in progress" and is likely to be a version of AI-powered artifacts that can be deployed and shared.

Only Le Chaton Fat is remaining 👀

🗞 #mistral @testingcatalog

Exclusive: Microsoft evaluates different open models for Cowork

Microsoft is testing multiple open and open-weight models for Copilot Cowork, with a stable orchestration layer that can swap models by cost, latency, and task fit, while weighing enterprise demands for compliance, safety, and quality.

🗞 #microsoftcopilot @testingcatalog

PERPLEXITY 🔥: Computer now has a Brain, a continuously learning memory system that forms an underlying context graph.

It makes you willing to feed it with more and more context every day.

> Available as a research preview for all Perplexity Max subscribers.

OpenAI prepares GPT-5.6 models for the upcoming release

OpenAI may launch GPT-5.6, Mini, and Pro next week, with early tests pointing to stronger coding, larger context, and lower pricing than Anthropic. A new bidirectional voice model, GPT-Bidi-1, is also expected.

🗞 #chatgpt @testingcatalog

Claude Code users on Team and Enterprise plans gained access to Artifacts, new interactive pages that can be built based on their Claude Code sessions.

Every session is an Artifact now 👀

OPENAI 🔥: Codex now has a new Record & Replay plugin that captures your actions and converts your workflow into an executable skill.

My workflow 👀

* Not available in EEA, UK, and Switzerland yet

OpenAI prepares real-time voice mode for Pets in Codex

OpenAI appears close to adding real-time voice to Codex, with app clues pointing to shared design and session logic with ChatGPT.

🗞 #chatgpt @testingcatalog

OPENAI 🔥: A Realtime Voice Mode on Codex will trigger a Pet or an Orb to appear!

> Users will be able to invoke them with the "Hey Chat" command.

> The Orb mentioned in the Realtime Voice settings is likely the same Orb we see on ChatGPT today.

> Additionally, Codex will get a Library section in the side nav, the same section we see on ChatGPT.

Codex = ChatGPT soon 👀

* The video shows that Pet has been summoned via the Voice Mode button.

Claude Enterprise admins can now centrally authorize MCP connectors for their organizations via a new Enterprise-Managed Auth extension.

Mass MCP 👀