Google preparing Skills and Gemini Live for web rollout

GOOGLE 🔥: Google might be preparing Gemini Live for rollout on the Gemini web.

> Gemini Live is expected to arrive on the Gemini desktop as well and has recently undergone trust testing.

> Besides that, we expect Skills to become available in normal chats, as well as a Gemini Flash 3.6 upgrade.

h/t @Thomasguka

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Something here looks familiar 👀

> Anthropic is testing a new position for its Chat / Cowork toggle.

> Projects are being added to the side nav as well: "Your projects now live in their own section. Pinned projects stay at the top."

* Not available to the public yet.

ALIBABA 🔥: Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is now available on Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat for testing. A massive 2.4T-parameter model is performing better than other models, except Fable 5, according to Qwen.

We are yet to see the benchmarks themselves, but Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is also expected to go open-weight soon!

Anthropic tests new placement for Projects on Claude Desktop

Anthropic is testing Claude desktop UI changes, including moving the Chat/Cowork toggle to the top and adding projects to the sidebar. A new Claude Code projects area is also in development, though rollout remains uncertain.

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Anthropic tests Penlight for live clinical transcripts and AI research

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Penlight is a new project designed to accompany clinicians during patient visits, developed as part of the Healthcare program.

> Penlight appears as a separate item alongside tools such as Claude Code, Design, and Security.

> Once a user begins a session, Penlight requests microphone access and starts streaming audio to a dedicated Anthropic service.

> The service produces a live transcript that can identify different speakers. Users can show or hide the transcript while continuing to interact with Claude in a parallel chat panel, allowing them to ask questions without leaving the ongoing visit.

> Research results are structured around scientific articles and can include the journal, authors, publication year, DOI, and PubMed links.

* The text on the screenshot is a placeholder added by TestingCatalog, as exact strings are redacted.

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Anthropic set to end Conway test as wider preview expected soon

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Internal access to Claude Conway will be cut off this Friday, July 24.

"Conway access ends Fri, July 24 at 5 pm PT. To export your data, ask Conway: "export my data".

This can mean two things 👀
1. Conway has been completely discontinued, which would be extremely unfortunate.
2. It is being transitioned to the broader release phase already in July.

> Claude Conway is a remote, always-on Claude Agent that runs in a dedicated container.

> Conway supports webhooks, connectors, plugins, and custom UI Tabs, a potential new standard from Anthropic for defining sharable UI artifacts for remote agents.

> Conway has been in development since April and has undergone internal testing during the past couple of months.

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GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini Notebook now supports Collections!

> Users can group their themed notebooks under a common folder in order to navigate through them even faster.

> Collection name and emoji are customizable.

> Collections are rolling out gradually to all users.

Perplexity tests OpenRouter integration for Computer

PERPLEXITY 🔥: OpenRouter integration might be coming to Perplexity Computer, potentially bringing a massive reduction in usage costs.

> Users will be able to connect Perplexity to their OpenRouter accounts.

> OpenRouter models will be used as the orchestrator for Perplexity Computer.

I need to test this 👀

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