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.

Meta introduces Muse as a proactive personal agent

Meta unveiled Muse, a persistent AI agent for long-running personal tasks. It works in the background, uses web and system tools, keeps context across chats, and adds logs, approvals and memory controls for oversight and safety.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster editing

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.5 brings faster image generation, sharper output, tighter edit control, and stronger subject consistency. It adds Sketch, templates, and API models Flare and Sunburst for consumer and production use.

🗞 #chatgpt @testingcatalog

Inception launches Mercury 2.5 at 1,107 tokens per second

Inception launched Mercury 2.5, a diffusion LLM claiming 40% higher intelligence than Mercury 2, 1,107 tokens per second, a 260K context window, and low pricing, targeting fast search, voice, and coding workloads.

🗞 #ai @testingcatalog

Apple Event is starting soon 🍎

APPLE 🔥: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max have been announced!

> 6-core CPU, 7-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine.
> Loads of new Apple Intelligence features.
> New Siri AI with expressive voices powered by local models.
> 40% better performance.
> 3 live activities on the Dynamic Island.
> 30h battery life per charge on the Max.

APPLE 🔥: Apple Watch will be able to capture audio from the world around you, save notes as memories, summarise meetings, and more!

> Comes in the form of new Live Rewind and Siri Recap features.
> Requires Siri AI to work; comes later this year.

Loads of startups got killed 💀