Mitra brings AI call handling to your existing number

Mitra’s new AI assistant manages calls, texts, email, scheduling, web tasks, and follow-ups from a user’s own accounts. It hands off routine work, lets users monitor or intervene live, and runs on a subscription with no data sales.

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Meta Connect keynote is happening soon, and there are high expectations for this event!

What do we expect? 🔮

- A new Watermelon class model.
- Muse Spark open source.
- Muse Video launch and API availability.
- New voice models and voice creation features.
- AI for banking and finance and Oracle Cloud integration.

Muse updates? 👀

- Connectors interface for Muse on the Meta Platform.
- Shared Muse agents.
- Telegram and Messenger support for Muse.
- Muse for Meta Glasses.
- Muse Mail.
- New shopping and payment features for Muse.
- Muse integration with Meta Business tools.
- Custom voices for Muse.

And obviously a lot more! What are your hopes?

Meta plans to announce "Meta Business Agent Platform" during Meta Connect, according to one of the scheduled event sessions.

> "Meta Business Agent Platform enables developers and businesses to deploy agents that transform a messaging thread into an always-on, full-funnel growth engine — capturing leads, closing sales, and supporting customers all in the same place."

BREAKING: Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a new AI pin hardware device that lets users communicate with their Muse agents from anywhere.

Shipping will start in December - will we get Muse globally by then too?

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 24

META 🔥:
- Meta VR Glasses: first VR in glasses, not a headset. AI-native OS, Muse avatar, eye + hand + voice control.
- Muse now has voice and realtime video, and is coming to glasses for hands-free use all day.
- Muse Charm, a keychain pin for talking to Muse, ships in December.
- Meta Glasses get FDA-cleared hearing-aid mode. Private processing means Meta cannot see some on-device AI.

OPENAI 🔥:
- ChatGPT Voice now runs plugins (email, calendar, Slack) and GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna.
- Voice is live in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile. Global rollout in the latest app.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are live in AI Studio and the Gemini API.
- Custom voices across 100+ languages, or pick from 2,000+ stock voices. Flash hits Gemini Notebook; Flash-Lite hits Google Vids.
- Gemini app is rolling out new MCP connections: Linear, Airtable, Webflow, Monday, PandaDoc, and Wispr Flow.
- Koray says Gemini 4 is in early post-training and hopes for an early drop well before year-end.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude Marketplace is live: Slack and Notion connectors, agents from Cursor and CrowdStrike, partners like Accenture.
- Cloud sessions leave research preview. One-time credits: $100 Pro, $250 Max. Claim by Oct 7.
- Projects in Claude Code can now run threads locally.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Rollouts watch deploys on Teams and Enterprise. Security Reviewer now averages 3.8 min.
- Token costs down 7% with no drop in agent quality.

ALIBABA 🔥:
- Qwen Intelligence ships three mobile agents. Mobile-Use hits 90% end-to-end success on real-device benches.
- Qwen-Audio-3.1 is out. TTS ~70% off, Realtime ~85% off, ASR up to 95% off.

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Gemini Task mode in testing along with Gemini Live support

GOOGLE 🔥: It seems like the upcoming Gemini Task mode on Gemini desktop will support Gemini Live as well.

> Users will likely be able to control Gemini Tasks by voice.

> The Computer Use feature also got more granular settings, letting users configure whitelisted and blocked apps.

These features already undergo closed testing, and we may see them announced soon. It would be cool if they arrive along with a rumored Gemini 4 Pro, which may drop earlier than expected this year.

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GOOGLE 🔥: Nano Banana 2.5 Flash traces have been spotted on Google Flow.

Soon? 👀
h/t @wrg133

Meta unveils 100-gram VR Glasses for $1,299.99

Meta unveiled 100g VR Glasses with 5K micro-OLED displays, a separate compute puck, gesture and voice controls, IMAX support, immersive sports, private work screens, and hologram calls, priced at $1,299.99 for spring 2027.

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