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 👀

MISTRAL 🔥: Le Chonk (Mistral Large 4) is now available on HuggingFace!

> "The new model also features substantial gains in reasoning efficiency that give developers greater performance while lowering inference costs."

> "Mistral Large 4 ranks as the best open-weight model for coding and among the world's most capable open models overall."

It now takes the top spot on Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark among open models!

We need new Mistral Small now 👀

Mistral opens Large 4 weights for coding and security

Mistral open-sourced Mistral Large 4, a 1T-parameter multimodal model tuned for coding, cybersecurity and enterprise agents, with stronger reasoning, lower token use, open-weight licensing and self-hosting on European-built infrastructure.

🗞 #mistral @testingcatalog

A bunch of small Claude updates 👀

- Optimized view on iPad and iPhone Duo. Similar on Chromebooks, Googlebooks, and foldables - Claude on Android now works like a laptop app.
- Multi-account sign-in.
- Claude UI now supports 24 new languages.
- Voice mode answer speed has improved. Non-English voices are now more natural.
- CarPlay is now supported.
- "Pull down to search" feature on mobile is coming soon.

QOL improvements 🔥

Anthropic introduced self-assessment, a new technique that lets Claude give each conversation a preliminary safety assessment right after it responds.

> On Claude Fable 5, self-assessment flags 78% of the conversations that a stronger, prompted classifier flags as potentially harmful, and 94% of the high-priority ones, at a 1% false-positive rate.

Anthropic also shed light on how self-assessment and prompted classifiers help block attacks.

> "Each successful attack costs roughly four times as many generated tokens as with no safeguards."

We already live in a world where your security depends on the compute allocated to defend the systems you rely on.

GOOGLE 🔥: Antigravity got a new Plugins marketplace with loads of different connectors!

Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Firebase, Notion, Stripe, Linear, Figma, Canva, Trello, Dropbox, Datadog, Postman, Vercel, and many more!

It is finally here 👀