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 👀