DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 28

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, its most realistic interactive world model with natural-language steering and native audio, rolling out first to Trusted Testers before Google AI Ultra and Gemini API access.
- Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now in public preview on Google Cloud for enterprise robotics deployments.
- Gemini Notebook on mobile can now record up to an hour of live audio and use it as a source.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Anthropic shared early results from drug-development research partnerships with six organizations using Claude.
- Anthropic is letting all US Claude Max subscribers off the Claude Duet waitlist this week, with US Pro users next in line and no timeline yet for access outside the US.

OPENAI 🔥:
- ChatGPT added iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins on all plans across web, desktop and iOS.
- Codex CLI 0.165.0 adds a built-in Google Cloud Vertex AI provider and GPT-6.1 Terra in the model catalog.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- MAI-Image-2.7-Preview launched as Microsoft AI's new image-editing model, debuting at #3 on Arena Edit and #2 on AA-Image-Editing.
- MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry.
- MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash is live on MDASH, matching MAI Cyber 1 Flash at 18% lower cost per scan.
- GitHub Copilot now supports server-to-server authentication for GitHub Apps in public preview, ahead of GitHub Universe opening today.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bot now supports Memory Import to bring over preferences and context from another AI assistant.
- Cursor Design Mode gained Annotate for editing elements, drawing on the page and reviewing designs at different screen sizes.

META 🔥:
- Muse is now available in Singapore on iOS, Android and web.

NVIDIA 🔥:
- NVIDIA and Meta are expanding their collaboration on Muse models, with broader Vera Rubin deployments planned at Meta.
- Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs are now generally available on Oracle Cloud, with OCI Superclusters scaling to multi-gigawatt size.

ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS 🔥:
- Intelligence Index v5 launched with new mostly private benchmarks, putting Claude Opus 5.5 on top at 58.

LIQUID AI 🔥:
- Liquid AI released LFM3, an open-weight family of six 2B-class text, vision, audio and omni models on a new tri-hybrid architecture.

GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini Notebook will soon get Connectors! But there is a caveat: Google Drive will be the first, and the only, one available at first.

Additionally, users will be able to ask Gemini to search through Google Drive directly from the chat and turn it off if needed.

> “You can now search Google Drive files from chat.”

> Google Drive Connector - “Searches and retrieves documents directly within your workspace. Your original files remain completely untouched.”

> “Connect your workspace to chat with your files, sync your notes, and automate tasks across your favorite apps.”

More Connectors are expected to arrive later. I hope we get them faster than 1-5 per year.

Soon 👀

ICYMI: Google DeepMind previews Genie 4 with native audio

Google DeepMind introduced Genie 4, a real-time world model that renders photorealistic scenes with native audio and speech, supports live text-guided changes, and targets robotics, simulation, and creative prototyping.

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

OPENAI 🔥: Pro users in the US now can message their Dots via iMessage or RCS.

I hope that it will get into WhatsApp and Telegram at some point as well!

In any case, not soon 👀

Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon for cyber defenders

Google introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, its top model for cybersecurity and long-horizon tasks. It leads key benchmarks, shows strong coding and patching results, and begins a limited rollout before wider release after guardrail testing.

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

PERPLEXITY 🔥: Voice mode on Perplexity for Mac and web now uses the gpt-live-1 model from OpenAI.

Users can now run multiple sessions on Perplexity Computer and manage tasks and Projects.

Voice is my favorite interface 👀

Google and XREAL launch AURA Android XR glasses

Google XREAL officially launched XREAL AURA, the first Android XR Glasses!

> Dramatically lighter - "Users can comfortably keep them on for hours, whether watching a movie or getting work done on multiple screens."

> "Gemini works across everything in view, including your laptop window, so you can ask it to tidy up your windows or brainstorm about whatever you're looking at."

> "XREAL AURA is available for users 18+ to order today in the U.S., Canada, and Korea, and starting November 2 in Japan, with launch pricing starting at USD 1,099 through the end of the year."

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a new open-weight, 30B MoE model with ~4B active parameters.

> Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe can handle transcription in 40 languages, speaker attribution, translation, contextual prompting, and audio understanding.

> It landed in the first spot in VoiceArena’s 14-system diarization + ASR comparison.

GitHub dropped a slew of announcements at its UNIVERSE'26 event.

> Copilot Fusion - Can coordinate multiple models and workflows when one model alone isn’t enough.

> Copilot Projects - Copilot Projects gives you one place to see where the work stands and direct what Copilot takes on next.

> Security extension for GitHub Copilot - Helps review what you and your agents just wrote alongside your repository's code scanning alerts in one Security canvas.

> Copilot dreaming - It suggests improvements to your personal memories, repository instructions, agent skills, and custom instructions for Copilot code review.

> Copilot Automations - Define the job once, then run it on demand, on a schedule, or in response to activity in GitHub or a connected service.

Github Copilot as a Superapp 💪👀

OPENAI 🔥: ChatGPT Pro and Business subscribers can now claim monthly API credits!

- Pro plans get $100, $200 or $500 per month by tier.
- Business plans get $20 per paid Standard seat or $100 per paid Premium seat, pooled up to $500 per workspace.

That's exactly what is needed for testing 👀