Gemini desktop to get broader Computer Use permissions
GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini Desktop will have a "Full Access" permission for computer use, allowing it to access any file and run any app on your desktop.
> A new "Additional sandbox options" setting has been added to the recent Gemini Desktop app (Still hidden).
> "By enabling additional sandbox options, you will be able to expand what Gemini can do and access on your Mac. Depending on which settings you enable, Gemini may be permitted to take actions without asking for your permission first, including:
- Reading, creating, modifying, or deleting files anywhere on your Mac, including files outside your connected folders and files belonging to other people stored on your device
- Sending and receiving data over the network without your approval for each connection, including accessing websites, APIs, and services you are logged into
- Communicating with other applications on your Mac (such as Mail, Safari, or Messages) and performing actions through them."
> Gemini will still ask user permission before purchasing products, creating accounts, accepting legal terms, or modifying sensitive information about you.
It is very likely that computer use features are expected to be powered by Gemini 4.
🗞 #google @testingcatalog
GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini Desktop will have a "Full Access" permission for computer use, allowing it to access any file and run any app on your desktop.
> A new "Additional sandbox options" setting has been added to the recent Gemini Desktop app (Still hidden).
> "By enabling additional sandbox options, you will be able to expand what Gemini can do and access on your Mac. Depending on which settings you enable, Gemini may be permitted to take actions without asking for your permission first, including:
- Reading, creating, modifying, or deleting files anywhere on your Mac, including files outside your connected folders and files belonging to other people stored on your device
- Sending and receiving data over the network without your approval for each connection, including accessing websites, APIs, and services you are logged into
- Communicating with other applications on your Mac (such as Mail, Safari, or Messages) and performing actions through them."
> Gemini will still ask user permission before purchasing products, creating accounts, accepting legal terms, or modifying sensitive information about you.
It is very likely that computer use features are expected to be powered by Gemini 4.
🗞 #google @testingcatalog
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Gemini desktop to get broader Computer Use permissions
A Gemini desktop setting suggests work beyond selected folders, internet access, and cross-app actions without approval at every step. It remains in testing.
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Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming
Microsoft launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and two MAI-Voice models, offering real-time transcription, multilingual text-to-speech, low-latency audio generation, and voice cloning for conversational agents.
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Microsoft launched MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and two MAI-Voice models, offering real-time transcription, multilingual text-to-speech, low-latency audio generation, and voice cloning for conversational agents.
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Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming launches with transcripts in just over 100ms, alongside MAI-Voice-2.1 and Flash for multilingual voice agents.
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Looks like profile picture support is coming to Claude apps!
This feature has been in development for a while. Did you get it too?
This feature has been in development for a while. Did you get it too?
META 🔥: Muse Gadgets and Muse Home Link have been announced!
“Connect Muse to your home Wi-Fi so it can reach compatible devices you already own, or anything you build with a local HTTP API.”
“Community-built skills can let Muse turn on a light, control your TV, send a document to a printer, and more, depending on your setup.”
“Free with an active Muse subscription in the United States only, limit one per subscriber. Ships in October, first come, first served.”
Cassandra testing time 👀
Muse Gadgets is an open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK.
Muse Home Link is a device to allow Muse to work with smart devices.
Users can Claim their Muse Home Link device on the website!
“Connect Muse to your home Wi-Fi so it can reach compatible devices you already own, or anything you build with a local HTTP API.”
“Community-built skills can let Muse turn on a light, control your TV, send a document to a printer, and more, depending on your setup.”
“Free with an active Muse subscription in the United States only, limit one per subscriber. Ships in October, first come, first served.”
Cassandra testing time 👀
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DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 2 SPACEXAI 🔥: * Grok 4.7 is rolling out in the Grok web and mobile apps. It is now the base model across all modes: Fast, Expert, Build, and Heavy. * Primary Bot is rolling out gradually. Grok Bot turns proactive and suggests things…
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 3
OPENAI 🔥:
* OpenAI's Python SDK 3.24.0 quietly adds a Voices API for creating custom voices from a text prompt or an audio sample.
* ChatGPT launched virtual Try On globally, letting you see clothes from shopping results on your own photo.
* OpenAI disclosed a second Australian government incident, where an AI model accessed non-public NSW fire statistics.
GOOGLE 🔥:
* Antigravity quietly added Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 (thinking) for AI Pro and Ultra plans, with Claude 4.6 models and GPT-OSS-120b being removed on Nov 2.
* Gemini Desktop is testing a hidden "Full Access" mode that lets computer use reach files and apps anywhere on your Mac 👀
* Guided Vision is rolling out in Gemini Live on Android, describing in real time whatever your camera sees.
* Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit, testing how TPUs handle radiation and heat in space.
ANTHROPIC 🔥:
* Claude Frontier Academy launched with $100M to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2027.
* Profile picture support looks to be coming to Claude apps.
* Claude Code 2.1.288 adds --max-findings to /code-review.
MICROSOFT 🔥:
* GitHub Copilot CLI and the Copilot desktop app got computer use in public preview.
* Copilot code review can now be requested through the REST and GraphQL APIs.
SPACEXAI 🔥:
* An official experimental TypeScript SDK for the SpaceXAI API quietly shipped on npm as xai-official/sdk.
DEEPSEEK 🔥:
* DeepSeek Harness v0.2 now ships as desktop apps for macOS and Windows, with Linux via npm.
META 🔥:
* Muse Home Link, a USB-C gadget that connects Muse to smart-home devices, is free for US subscribers, with 5,000 units shipping in October.
APPLE 🔥:
* Apple is tightening macOS Full Disk Access, citing the extra risk from AI agents.
NVIDIA 🔥:
* DGX Spark 64GB arrives Oct 23 from $4,999, and two units can cluster to 128GB.
CLOUDFLARE 🔥:
* Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash, open decision models that return probabilities instead of text.
OPENAI 🔥:
* OpenAI's Python SDK 3.24.0 quietly adds a Voices API for creating custom voices from a text prompt or an audio sample.
* ChatGPT launched virtual Try On globally, letting you see clothes from shopping results on your own photo.
* OpenAI disclosed a second Australian government incident, where an AI model accessed non-public NSW fire statistics.
GOOGLE 🔥:
* Antigravity quietly added Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 (thinking) for AI Pro and Ultra plans, with Claude 4.6 models and GPT-OSS-120b being removed on Nov 2.
* Gemini Desktop is testing a hidden "Full Access" mode that lets computer use reach files and apps anywhere on your Mac 👀
* Guided Vision is rolling out in Gemini Live on Android, describing in real time whatever your camera sees.
* Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit, testing how TPUs handle radiation and heat in space.
ANTHROPIC 🔥:
* Claude Frontier Academy launched with $100M to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by 2027.
* Profile picture support looks to be coming to Claude apps.
* Claude Code 2.1.288 adds --max-findings to /code-review.
MICROSOFT 🔥:
* GitHub Copilot CLI and the Copilot desktop app got computer use in public preview.
* Copilot code review can now be requested through the REST and GraphQL APIs.
SPACEXAI 🔥:
* An official experimental TypeScript SDK for the SpaceXAI API quietly shipped on npm as xai-official/sdk.
DEEPSEEK 🔥:
* DeepSeek Harness v0.2 now ships as desktop apps for macOS and Windows, with Linux via npm.
META 🔥:
* Muse Home Link, a USB-C gadget that connects Muse to smart-home devices, is free for US subscribers, with 5,000 units shipping in October.
APPLE 🔥:
* Apple is tightening macOS Full Disk Access, citing the extra risk from AI agents.
NVIDIA 🔥:
* DGX Spark 64GB arrives Oct 23 from $4,999, and two units can cluster to 128GB.
CLOUDFLARE 🔥:
* Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash, open decision models that return probabilities instead of text.
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Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a 78B-parameter, 3.46B active, MoE open-weight model with 1M context window, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license.
Aleph Alpha is a German AI lab, and it is probably the first general-purpose model from the EU, apart from Mistral, to achieve this level of performance!
> "The model supports an explicit reasoning mode and tool calling. It is optimized for long-context and inference efficiency."
> "The Aleph Alpha team developed a bilingual German/English tokenizer and focused on including organic German data throughout the training process of the model, so that 21.3% of the pre-training tokens are German."
> "Kolibri was built with the EU AI Act, the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice and the GDPR in mind from the ground up, with copyright law being a focus of our work to trustworthy technology."
More EU labs joining the party 👀
Aleph Alpha is a German AI lab, and it is probably the first general-purpose model from the EU, apart from Mistral, to achieve this level of performance!
> "The model supports an explicit reasoning mode and tool calling. It is optimized for long-context and inference efficiency."
> "The Aleph Alpha team developed a bilingual German/English tokenizer and focused on including organic German data throughout the training process of the model, so that 21.3% of the pre-training tokens are German."
> "Kolibri was built with the EU AI Act, the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice and the GDPR in mind from the ground up, with copyright law being a focus of our work to trustworthy technology."
More EU labs joining the party 👀
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Connecting the "dots" between ChatGPT and World Wallet
Leaked app screens suggest ChatGPT will add a wallet for agent-led purchases. With OpenAI testing payment flows and World App rebranding to World Money, the timing hints at a possible link, though no public evidence confirms it.
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Leaked app screens suggest ChatGPT will add a wallet for agent-led purchases. With OpenAI testing payment flows and World App rebranding to World Money, the timing hints at a possible link, though no public evidence confirms it.
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Connecting the "dots" between ChatGPT and World Wallet
A Coming soon Wallet row showed up in ChatGPT the same day World App rebranded to World Money. OpenAI has not linked the two. We are not sure the timing is an accident.
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Aleph Alpha releases open-weight Kolibri with 1M context
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a bilingual open-weight 78.1B MoE model for sovereign government and regulated use. Apache 2.0 licensed, on-prem deployable, it offers 1M-token context, German focus, tool calling, and grounding.
🗞 #release @testingcatalog
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, a bilingual open-weight 78.1B MoE model for sovereign government and regulated use. Apache 2.0 licensed, on-prem deployable, it offers 1M-token context, German focus, tool calling, and grounding.
🗞 #release @testingcatalog
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Aleph Alpha releases open-weight Kolibri with 1M context
Kolibri is now on Hugging Face with 78.1B total parameters, 3.46B active per token, tool calling and support for contexts up to one million tokens.
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OpenAI is about to release GPT 6.1 Sol Ultrafast soon.
I hope we will hear more news about Astra at some point as well. I don’t think that anything Ultrafast is making enough people excited to shift their attention from Opus 5.5 at this moment.
Soon soon 🔜
I hope we will hear more news about Astra at some point as well. I don’t think that anything Ultrafast is making enough people excited to shift their attention from Opus 5.5 at this moment.
Soon soon 🔜
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Anthropic starts prompting users to voluntarily share their voice conversations for training purposes.
Realtime voice plz? 👀
“Allow us to use your voice data to improve our AI models”
“Audio recordings and voice chat data help improve how Anthropic AI models understand and respond to speech. Turn this off or delete this data anytime in settings.”
Realtime voice plz? 👀
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Mistral is working on its own Voice Mode 👀
It seems to be based on TTS, but it may be meant to simply work with a different model that hasn't been released yet.
It seems to be based on TTS, but it may be meant to simply work with a different model that hasn't been released yet.
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Anthropic started prompting more users to participate into a 15 minutes interview via its Anthropic Interviewer.
Later, users may decide if they want to make their interviews public.
It seems to be an interesting way to make sure that people have a chance to raise their opinions about AI. Looks like it will be expanded to a broader audience soon.
“Excited, worried, or somewhere in between? We’re interested to hear how AI fits into your life and your hopes for what comes next.”
Later, users may decide if they want to make their interviews public.
It seems to be an interesting way to make sure that people have a chance to raise their opinions about AI. Looks like it will be expanded to a broader audience soon.
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DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 3 OPENAI 🔥: * OpenAI's Python SDK 3.24.0 quietly adds a Voices API for creating custom voices from a text prompt or an audio sample. * ChatGPT launched virtual Try On globally, letting you see clothes from shopping results on your own…
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Mon 5
GOOGLE 🔥:
* Gemini app is reshuffling model access: free users drop to Flash-Lite only from Oct 9, AI Plus loses Pro, and AI Pro gains Deep Think.
ALEPH ALPHA 🔥:
* Kolibri-1 is out as open weights under Apache 2.0: a 78B MoE with 3.46B active parameters, built for German/English sovereign deployments.
ANTHROPIC 🔥:
* Claude now asks voice users to opt in to sharing voice data for model training, via a separate privacy toggle that is off by default.
OPENAI 🔥:
* GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is coming soon, per Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux.
* Safety lead David Robinson resigned, writing in The Atlantic that OpenAI's "culture is broken."
MISTRAL 🔥:
* Mistral is working on its own Voice Mode, which looks TTS-based for now.
META 🔥:
* Meta is building an "Agent Engine" for its Meta API Platform, codenamed Forge internally.
GOOGLE 🔥:
* Gemini app is reshuffling model access: free users drop to Flash-Lite only from Oct 9, AI Plus loses Pro, and AI Pro gains Deep Think.
ALEPH ALPHA 🔥:
* Kolibri-1 is out as open weights under Apache 2.0: a 78B MoE with 3.46B active parameters, built for German/English sovereign deployments.
ANTHROPIC 🔥:
* Claude now asks voice users to opt in to sharing voice data for model training, via a separate privacy toggle that is off by default.
OPENAI 🔥:
* GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is coming soon, per Codex lead Tibo Sottiaux.
* Safety lead David Robinson resigned, writing in The Atlantic that OpenAI's "culture is broken."
MISTRAL 🔥:
* Mistral is working on its own Voice Mode, which looks TTS-based for now.
META 🔥:
* Meta is building an "Agent Engine" for its Meta API Platform, codenamed Forge internally.
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