Google prepares Gemini App for Avatars, Plugins, and Gemini 4

Google is expanding Gemini desktop with avatars, a hidden Customize hub for apps, skills, and plugins, plus support for richer widgets. The changes also suggest Gemini 4 is in preparation, though rollout timing remains unclear.

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

Grok Bot to get Templates and multi-account support soon

TestingCatalog reports xAI is preparing Grok Bot updates including templates, multi-account switching, Chrome profile import, and desktop egress routing, pointing to broader bot setup, account separation, authenticated access, and network control.

🗞 #spacexai @testingcatalog

Anthropic expanded Enterprise-managed auth for MCP connectors on Claude to General Availability.

OAuth them all 👀

Microsoft added a new effort selector for Copilot Cowork.

This looks familiar 👀

ChatGPT now can generate customisable sticker packs via GPT Image.

Users can share these stickers on iMessage or WhatsApp later as well.

APPLE 🔥: A new Mac Studio powered by M6 and M5 Ultra chips have been announced along with Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro.

"M6, Apple’s first 2 nm chip, features a larger, more powerful 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, and Dual 16-core Neural Engine, while M5 Ultra is Apple’s first quad-die architecture and its most powerful chip ever"

"M5 Ultra, the ultimate powerhouse for pro and AI workloads, uses next-generation UltraFusion technology to form a quad-die architecture for the first time in an M-series system on a chip (SoC). The chip includes an up-to-36-core CPU and up-to-80-core GPU with a massive 1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50 percent more than M3 Ultra."

Mac mini with M6 delivers:
> Up to 13.5x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio when compared to Mac mini with M1, and up to 4.8x faster than M4.

Mac mini with M5 Pro delivers:
> Up to 8.5x faster LLM prompt processing performance in LM Studio when compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, and up to 4x faster than M4 Pro.

I need a new Mac Studio cluster 👀

PERPLEXITY 🔥: Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers can now use a new Portable Computer on DGX Spark from NVIDIA, powered purely by local models!

Available models:
> PPLX 27B is a new post-trained model from Perplexity.
> Qwen 3.8 27B
> Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (coming soon)

They really did it! 🤖

ICYMI: SpaceXAI plans NVIDIA Vera deployment for Starmind

NVIDIA says SpaceXAI will use Vera CPUs for Grok’s agent workloads and plans a space-ready Vera Rubin NVL72 system for the Starmind satellite, extending one AI computing stack from Earth data centers to orbit.

🗞 #spacexai @testingcatalog

Antigravity 2.0 adds new VCS controls and a terminal

Google added Git controls and an embedded terminal to Antigravity 2.0, letting developers review all workspace changes, inspect diffs, run commands, stage files, and commit from the sidebar without leaving the app.

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

OpenAI announced initial performance results of their own Jalapeño chip for AI inference.

> 1.5–1.9× more AI work per watt
> 1.7–3.6× lower end-to-end latency
> 2.1–4.1× higher performance on highly interactive workloads

Google announced its first plugins for Gemini Enterprise, tailored for legal and finance use cases.

These plugins combine selected Apps and Skills under purpose based bundle instructions.

It is also expected that bundles eventually will arrive to consumer Gemini. What worries me here is that we got only two.

Soon? 👀

Morning Brief feature seems to be rolling out on Claude for some users.

Morning Brief runs on scheduled tasks and guides users through customizing preferences and Connectors to pull data.

Did you get it too? 👀

Claude got an updated unified memory across Claude Chat and Cowork.

> Also, a new toggle to keep memories about sensitive topics has been added to the Settings menu.

> Memoriesed topics are now split into separate categories.

> Memory now has a dedicated tab in Claude Settings.

> Users can now tell Claude what to remember directly from the memory browser UI.

Claude Academy now has a dedicated section in the menu widget.

Learn, right in the app 👀

ChatGPT Work on iOS now offers a persistent, secure sign-in for websites without accessing your passwords.

> This native flow works with 1Password and supports streamlined 2FA authentication.
> Native support on ChatGPT for Android and web is coming soon, too.

AI will eat the internet 👀

Ox Alpha, a recent stealth model from OpenRouter is GLM-5.3 Flash from Zhipu AI.

As it has been foretold 👀