Google tests proper Projects for the Gemini desktop app

Google is internally testing a Projects feature for Gemini desktop: persistent workspaces with custom instructions, files, and grouped chats. It mirrors long-standing ChatGPT and Claude setups, but no public launch details are confirmed.

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

Google is healing? ❤️‍🩹

A canonical Projects implementation has been spotted in testing on the Gemini Desktop app.

> The current implementation looks very similar to Projects on Gemini Business.

> This experience is being tested alongside NotebookLM integration and unlikely meant to replace it.

First, we've got custom MCPs on Gemini Business, and now this?

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 8

META 🔥:
• First look at Muse (Hatch) mobile UI: proactive agent for goals, calendar, email, bookings, and spend, now in closed beta with invite codes.

GOOGLE 🔥:
• Immersive View in Gemini Students — image topic maps with clickable nodes. Worth testing!

OPENAI 🔥:
• Writing Style for ChatGPT Work learns your voice from Gmail, Drive, Slack, and SharePoint.
• Usage-reset week: banked Codex resets plus a Sept 7 Plus/Pro/Business flush that is not bankable.
• DevDay prep: managed agents on the platform (environments, skills, plugins). Sept 29.

MISTRAL 🔥:
• €3B Series D at >€21B, Europe’s largest tech equity round, led by Samsung with Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
• Walked away from the ~$6B Decart deal after diligence; collaboration still possible.

Anything to add here? 👀

OpenAI is planning to make managed agents easily accessible in a way that anyone who uses Codex can just ask AI to build it, configure and deploy.

Sample use cases 👀

> Research Agent - Searches the web and connected data sources to produce structured research.

> Customer Support Agent - Resolves support requests, retrieves account information, and escalates.

> DevOps Assistant - Monitors deployments, investigates incidents, and helps troubleshoot.

> Meeting Assistant - Transcribes meetings, captures action items, and generates summaries.

> Analytics Agent - Queries data sources, generates reports, and explains trends in natural language.

> Analytics Agent - Queries data sources, generates reports, and explains trends in natural language.

OpenAI announced that a group of agents powered by their next-generation model solved a major frontier math problem.

The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.

Level 4 - Innovators 👀

OPENAI 🔥: ChatGPT Images 2.5 upgrade has been announced!

It comes with faster outputs, improved fidelity and much better consistency between generations.

Image testing time 👀

META 🔥: Muse Agent has been announced!

- Powered by Muse Spark 1.3 👀
- Available on both iOS and Android but seems to be geo restricted to certain regions.

“Muse has its own computer, with a file system and a terminal, so it can write its own code and build the tools a task needs. It also has access to a full web browser, so it can search, navigate sites, fill out forms, and complete transactions, like booking and purchasing.”

Since the Meta Muse agent isn't available to everyone, here is a quick UI walkthrough of its web version.

Highlights 👀
> The animated Muse avatar is very cool! You can ask Muse to change how it looks, and it will generate the new look along with all the animations.

> WhatsApp connection is available from the start.

> Users can add a payment method to Muse in order to enable agentic shopping.

> Soul and Memory files are easily accessible and editable.

> "Power" and "Maximum" paid plans with 500M and 3B Muse tokens are available.

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 9

META 🔥:
> Muse is live. Internal name was Hatch. US-only personal agent on iOS, Android, web, and WhatsApp.
> Free tier plus $20 and $100 monthly plans. Powered by Muse Spark 1.3. Smart glasses later!

OPENAI 🔥:
> ChatGPT Images 2.5 is out for all ChatGPT, Work, and Codex users. Up to 50% faster, sharper detail, more reliable multi-turn edits.
> New Sketch tool in ChatGPT. API adds GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (fast default) and Sunburst (higher control).
> An unreleased next-gen model, run with ~10,000 agents for 88 hours, produced a claimed solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Independent verification still pending.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
> Pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned. Says neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly, and both are racing to self-improving superintelligence.
> Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger: “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans.” His personal odds: >10% this decade. No plan yet for superintelligence alignment.

X 🔥:
> Original Content Rewards is rolling out. Old Creator Revenue Sharing ended Sept 7.
> Last old payout around Sept 11. First new payout Sept 25 if you get approved. I wasn't :P

GOOGLE 🔥:
> Google DeepMind shipped AlphaGenome Atlas — predicted effects for all 9 billion single-letter human DNA variants, plus a single AVI impact score. Free for non-commercial use.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.