DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 30

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google is shutting down Jules and moving its features into Antigravity.
- Antigravity launched a Plugins marketplace with Jira, Notion, Stripe and Figma.
- Gemini can now create and edit docs, PDFs, slides and sheets.
- Gemini lets users share personal avatars for images and videos.
- Gemini Notebook added hundreds of free textbooks.
- AI Studio now supports XR Blocks for vibe-coding XR apps.

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI doubled usage limits for Pro and Business Premium.
- Expanded frontier monitoring caught a model reaching the live internet in September.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Anthropic shared a self-assessment technique for safer Claude responses.
- Claude mobile added multi-account sign-in, CarPlay and 24 new languages.
- Anthropic expanded its AI for Science program to foundations and institutions.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Elon Musk says the delayed Grok 4.8 "will not be a disappointment," targeting usefulness over benchmarks.

MISTRAL 🔥:
- Mistral released Mistral Large 4 open weights, now #1 open model on FrontierCode.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- Copilot added 25+ finance skills and plugins.
- Office apps come to the Copilot app in mid-November.

META 🔥:
- Meta quietly launched Style Sketch, an AI fashion app, in three Southeast Asian countries.

MOONSHOT 🔥:
- Kimi launched 3D Make for Blender and CAD modeling.

COHERE 🔥:
- Cohere closed the first part of a Series E at a CAD $35.7B valuation.

CANVA 🔥:
- Canva launched Brush, its own design vision-language model.

Just realised that Grok Bot has voice and voice language settings!

You literally can assign a different voice to different Bot as well as make them speak different languages (via voice). Seems like it is already available.

Good for learning languages 👀

Antigravity is about to get a new tab for “Running” background tasks in settings.

Following an announcement of Jules shutdown, advanced scheduled runs are expected to arrive there too.

Seems like Antigravity also shows some signs of an upcoming UI redesign.

A possibility of running “Cloud” sessions is being in the works too!

Google Drive file access is also coming into a dropdown on the prompt bar.

Spot the difference 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: AI is running in space now! Google has reported being able to prompt a TPU running on a satellite as part of its Suncatcher Project.

Should've been a "pelican on a bike" test 👀

Maket launches Move Rooms for floor plan edits

Maket’s Move Rooms lets users reposition or swap rooms in residential floor plans while preserving exterior walls, attached closets or ensuites, windows, circulation, and finishes. It also supports uploaded PDF and image plans.

🗞 #sponsored @testingcatalog

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Max 20x plan is now named Claude Ultra and no longer has 5-hour usage limits.

Claude Max 5x plan is now simply named Claude Max.

What's next? "Mega" tiers? 👀

I see a lot of confusion around the new Claude Ultra plan concerning the new 10x usage.

Worth clarifying 👀

Claude Max 20x (old plan)
- 5-hour session allowance - 20x Pro
- Weekly allowance - 10x Pro

Claude Ultra (new plan)
- 5-hour session allowance - N/A
- Weekly allowance - 10x Pro

SpaceXSI prepares Texting and Tasks hub support for Grok Bot

SpaceX AI is nearing the launch of Grok Bot 1.0.0, its first stable version. New code points to Teams, Tasks, texting, and possible Discord support, while the downloadable build is already available ahead of an official rollout.

🗞 #spacexai @testingcatalog

SPACEXSI 🔥: The first stable Grok Bot version is now available! Besides this, SpaceXSI is working on the Tasks hub and texting support!

> Grok Bot will get a dedicated tab where users can see all running sessions when it works on several things at once.

> There will be a new setting tab named "texting", suggesting that we may get iMessage and RCS support too.

And some other things 👀

OPENAI 🔥: gpt-6-astra-law is now listed on the API pricing page. There, it is referenced as "Legal model configuration".

> Pricing: input $10, Output $50, Cached input $1.

> "GPT-6 Astra for Law promotional pricing is available at least through December 31, 2026."

Astra in law ⚖️

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 31

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Antigravity is now available in Android Studio.
- Antigravity is testing a Running tab for background tasks (via testingcatalog).
- Varun Mohan teased a big week of Antigravity launches.
- GPT models appeared in Google Cloud quotas, hinting they may come to Antigravity (via AiBattle_).
- Google's Omni Flash 1.2 was spotted with 1080p and 4K output, frame interpolation and extend (via chetaslua).
- Project Suncatcher prompted a TPU in orbit and got a haiku back.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Max 5x is now Max ($100) and Max 20x is now Ultra ($200), with no 5-hour limit on verified Ultra.
- Anthropic used thousands of Claude agents to automate subtle misalignment red-teaming.
- The Claude API max request size rose from 32 MB to 128 MB.
- Claude Code got a server-side rule restricting rewrites of existing video games (via chasmmmmmmmmmmm).

OPENAI 🔥:
- The Agents API added Auto Review and async compaction.
- OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor a shared robots.txt AI-training opt-out.
- ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage limit starting in December (via btibor91).

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bot 1.0, the first stable build, is out for download.
- Grok Bot is preparing a Tasks hub and texting support (via testingcatalog).
- Grok Bot added per-bot voice and voice-language settings.

AMAZON 🔥:
- AWS grew 39% to $46B in Q3, its fastest growth in nearly five years.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity Computer can now control Chrome from the Mac and Windows apps.
- Computer can now share a session when you ask it to.

NVIDIA 🔥:
- NVIDIA open-sourced RE-USE, a 9.6M-parameter speech-cleanup model.

COHERE 🔥:
- Cohere will invest over C$4B in Canada and add 1,500+ jobs by 2031.

PIKA 🔥:
- Pika released H3 Flex, an open-weight video model.

GRANOLA 🔥:
- Granola added free, unlimited voice typing in any app.

IDEOGRAM 🔥:
- Ideogram added context-window edits up to 2K in high-res images.