ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Personal Finance is now rolling out to Pro, Max, and Ultra users in the US.
Claude is getting read-only access to selected services so users can chat about their finances.
Not Claude Monet 💀
ANTHROPIC 🔥: According to the latest report from METR, Anthropic is accelerating its internal AI model development, and this is attributable to Anthropic’s extensive use of AI for R&D
> Anthropic have accelerated 1.9x since October 2025.
> The chart categorizes Opus 5.5 as "non-frontier" and highlights internal models named Model 3 and Model 4, with substantial improvement achieved in a very short period.
RSI bench? 👀
META 🔥: Muse Voice and expressive avatars are rolling out for Muse users in the US.
> Voice helps users think out loud, making tasks like brainstorming, trip planning, and interview prep easier.
> Your Muse’s avatar reacts as it listens and speaks, with expressions and gestures that match the conversation.
Additionally, Muse is rolling out in Mexico 🇲🇽
Meta rolls out Muse voice and expressive avatars in the US
Meta is bringing Muse voice conversations and expressive avatars to mobile, web and Mac. The rollout starts in the US, with real-time spoken replies, interrupt support, background task handling, and voice or avatar display options.
🗞 #meta @testingcatalog
Claude adds Personal Finance with read-only bank access
Anthropic is rolling out Claude Personal Finance in US beta for Pro, Max, and Ultra users. It uses read-only Plaid-linked account data to answer spending questions, flag unusual charges, and track bills without ads or financial products.
🗞 #anthropic @testingcatalog
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Cyber for Daybreak Red customers
OpenAI launched GPT‑6 Cyber for approved Daybreak Red users, pairing stronger vulnerability discovery and exploit validation with strict scope controls, monitoring and safeguards. Early results show major gains in kernel, web and Firefox research.
🗞 #openai @testingcatalog
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Nov 6
MODEL FORECAST 👀:
• GPT-6.2 Sol, today?
• GPT-6.2 Astra, today?
• Claude Fable 5.5, soon
• Claude Mythos 5.5, never?
• Gemini 4 Carbon, soon
• Gemini 4 Hydrogen (Flash), soon
• Grok 4.8, not soon???
OPENAI 🔥:
• OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber for authorized security research on Daybreak Red, with a Cyber livestream on Nov 12.
• Cat Wu is joining OpenAI to lead product management for Core Products after leaving Anthropic.
GOOGLE 🔥:
• Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on AI Studio and the Gemini API with 15-second video and 30% lower pricing.
ANTHROPIC 🔥:
• Claude Personal Finance is rolling out in beta to US Pro, Max, and Ultra users with read-only bank connections via Plaid.
• METR says Anthropic’s model progress accelerated about 1.9x since October 2025, citing internal Model 3 and Model 4.
THINKING MACHINES 🔥:
• Thinking Machines released Inkling 2 Small on Tinker at 31 on the AA Intelligence Index, with open weights planned next week.
PERPLEXITY 🔥:
• Perplexity Teammates are rolling out to Max subscribers on the web as proactive agents that use Computer tasks, skills, memory, and tools.
META 🔥:
• Muse Voice and expressive avatars are rolling out to US users, and Muse launched in Mexico.
SPACEXSI 🔥:
• Cursor can now build live apps with hosting, auth, and a shareable link on paid plans with cloud agents.
• Grok Bot is testing SMS texting, with WhatsApp and Telegram integrations in early preview (via alexmichael).
COGNITION 🔥:
• Cognition released Devin Review 2.0, now up to 5× cheaper and 1.5× faster for PR reviews.
Testing a different thing today 👀
I haven’t worked with Windows in a while (10+ years). Curious to see what the Surface Ultra offers.
> The Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra uses an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU built into the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X superchip.
I am obviously checking Perplexity Computer and Hermes, powered by local models like Nemotron and others.
What else should I try to run there?
I’m looking for recommendations to stress-test its performance running local workloads.
ALIBABA 🔥: «The becoming begins» teaser has been posted on the Qwen X account. We expect Qwen4-Max, Qwen4-Flash, Qwen4-Plus, and Qwen4-27B models to arrive soon.
Waiting for Qwen4-27B the most 👀
META 🔥: Muse and Meta AI apps now run on new specialized models trained with Muse Wonder.
Both Active Memory and Active Focus, introduced in Muse Wonder, are now available in Muse and Meta AI.
The Personal Superintelligence Index is up 9%, and Active Memory Eval is up 14%.
META 🔥: Muse now has Spaces!
Users can ask Muse to generate an interactive page on a specific topic or visualize certain data.
These spaces work like interactive artifacts powered by data from sources Muse can access.
I've asked it to create a space for "testing" and got an interactive playground. I think that Meta should now find a way to make these spaces shareable; that would be big.
Testing time! 👀
Claude for iOS is getting another layout redesign with Chats, Projects and Code being separate tabs on a side nav bar.
Other options like Dispatch or Personal Finance got moved into the profile menu.
I feel like a bottom nav was better 👀
Claude on Pro, Max and Ultra plans now can figure out your project dependencies and required API keys on its own in order to run it in the Claude Code cloud session.
Claude in the cloud 👀
DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Nov 7
OPENAI 🔥:
- Bloomberg reports OpenAI has raised $11B so far in a round valuing the company at $1.25T.
- ChatGPT Remix is rolling out to Business and Enterprise so teams can fork a colleague’s site and keep editing it in chat.
ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude Code cloud sessions on Pro, Max, and Ultra now figure out dependencies, network access, and API keys on their own.
- Claude Duet can check running Claude Code sessions, approve changes, and send updates from your phone.
- Claude for iOS is testing a side-nav redesign with separate Chats, Projects, and Code tabs.
META 🔥:
- Muse Spaces let users generate interactive, updatable pages from chat and pin them in the app.
- Muse and Meta AI now run specialized models with Active Memory and Active Focus from Muse Wonder.
SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok API text watermarking turns on by default today for listed Grok 4.x models, with team opt-out in Console.
ALIBABA 🔥:
- Qwen posted a “The becoming begins” teaser, with Qwen4-Max, Flash, Plus, and 27B expected soon.
NOUS RESEARCH 🔥:
- Nous Research released Arete-27B, a Qwen3.8-27B post-train aimed at Western values.
Anthropic is working on a collaborative mode for Claude Code Projects.
> Recent activity on the Projects page summarises the latest threads.
> "We don't have multiplayer yet," shared Lydia Hallie from Anthropic yesterday.
Yet 👀
> A project-level overview showing scheduled tasks and threads.
Claude Code Project improvements have been a focus for Anthropic for a while.
The upcoming collaborative experience seems similar to ChatGPT Spaces. Perplexity is working on a similar feature as well.
SpaceXSI is preparing to roll out / rolling out Slack integration for Grok Bot.
Users will be able to connect their bots to Slack individually and trigger them from Slack as well.
> "You can DM or @ mention X Marketer in Slack. It’ll respond with the same plugins, context, and memories it uses here."
This feature should arrive in the 1.1.0 build for macOS.
ICYMI 🔥: Mistral Studio got a big upgrade this week. Users can now build and host AI apps and improve them based on real usage.
> Connect your systems - Connectors, Knowledge, Search Index, Secrets Manager: set up once, reuse them across every project.
> Build agents, workflows and apps - Agents for reasoning, workflows for deterministic steps, apps for addressing use cases.
> Deploy with one command - Studio runs them in production, with durable execution, scaling and recovery.
> Improve from real usage - Every run leaves a trace. Turn traces into evaluations and improve the next.
Seems like Google is working on "the next generation Gemini agent" for Gemini Enterprise.
This experience is currently being used in Google internally.
"Gemini for Google - The next generation Gemini agent for enterprise"
Besides this, I am very happy to see Google working on innovative AI projects once again. According to what I have seen, Google will have a new generation of AI products for work, that are far ahead from what other labs are offering at this moment from a forward vision perspective.
Gemini reborn 🦑
OpenAI is teasing ModRetro Chromatic to arrive at Supply Co. on November 9.
> ModRetro is the company behind Chromatic, a retro handheld console that plays Game Boy and Game Boy Color games.
> At DevDay, OpenAI gave attendees a limited-edition transparent Chromatic and showcased a Codex integration for creating games.