DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 30 OPENAI 🔥: - dots shipped: always-on GPT-6 Astra agents with a cloud computer and 4,000+ plugins. On Pro (incl. $100), Business Premium, and Enterprise; EEA/UK/Switzerland skipped at launch. - GPT-6.1 Sol is live in Work, Codex, and the API. Near-Astra at $2/$10; cached input $0.10, 95% off standard. - Ultrafast hits ~300 tok/s in Codex (8x) and 6x in the API. Astra Ultrafast today on Pro 500 and Enterprise; Sol Ultrafast soon. - Pro 500 is the new top plan: 25x Plus usage plus Ultrafast. - Codex CLI refresh: voice start/steer, /agents view, worktrees, full-screen UI. - Codex Cloud: reusable environments keep agents running with the laptop closed. - Bloomberg: targeting another $30B at a $1.4T valuation. META 🔥: - Muse dropped Slack, Notion, Figma, Canva, Shopify, Zoom, and more. Muse for Small Business is out. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - Automations landed in Computer: scheduled or event-triggered runs across Slack, Gmail, Outlook, and Linear. XAI 🔥: - Elon: Grok 4.7 ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index. CURSOR 🔥: - /visualize draws charts and diagrams inline in the Agents Window. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

Introducing Grokipedia v0.3 https://grokipedia.com

Grok Bot is now more powerful for building software. Bots can hand off coding tasks to Cursor, manage your PRs with GitHub and Origin plugins, and share video demos of what they build.

What's new in Grok Bot 0:19 Team bots - create bots shared with your team members 1:10 Finances - search and manage your finances with @plaid 1:32 Voice calls - @bot can search chats during calls and gracefully handles interruptions Like this for a special bot animation on @X!

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 29 ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude Sonnet 5.5 is live everywhere, including the Platform and Claude Code. Second model in the 5.5 family; Haiku 5.5 is still weeks out. - Same list price as Sonnet 5: $2/$10 per 1M tokens, cache reads $0.20. Official line: 30%+ faster and up to 30% cheaper per task. - First Sonnet with Opus-class cyber safeguards. Cursor already has the slug. OPENAI 🔥: - DevDay keynote is today. The teaser promised 20+ launches; the agenda points to Codex plugins, a 1,000-hour internal agent run, and multiplayer Codex. - Pro $200 reopens to new subscribers tomorrow. Usage math nets to about half the old plan’s API dollars. No 5h cap coming back. Extra subscription features tomorrow will not draw usage. - WSJ: GPT-6.1 Astra will not ship. October target pulled over safety and alignment. - Build strings name “Dots”: text, call, Slack, email, buy with approval, plus a custom-shaped character. “Spaces” also showed up separately. XAI 🔥: - Team Bots are in public beta for Teams and Enterprise. Shared teammates with skills, plugins, and credentials in Slack or Grok Bot. NVIDIA 🔥: - Open Agent Safety Platform is out with 100+ partners. OpenShell plus Sentry; BlueField-4 and DOCA sit outside the agent’s reach. ELEVENLABS 🔥: - v4 and v4 Turbo shipped. Turbo median latency ~100 ms. 90+ languages. - Two-week API promo: $22 / $11 per 1M characters. Instant clones from 10 seconds of audio. KLING 🔥: - 4.0 Flash is live for Ultra Yearly. Full 4.0 is October: 4K HDR, 15 references, 10 keyframes, native 30-second clips. MANUS 🔥: - 2.0 adds persistent cloud workspaces and Cue, an agent with email, phone, wallet, and a Cloud Computer. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

This really brought home to me this new machine creativity. I don’t know the recipe, but it’s more than vibes I see. There’s substance in the lyrics and there’s nuance for the critics And a story being told in this AI homily. And a message being sold by the Ai homily.

Backstage before our panel on superintelligence at the launch of https://America.gov Will post the video when it comes out. Also @jgebbia has done something truly awesome for the country. We should all be grateful! 📸 by @KatieMiller

Grok 4.7 xHigh ranks #1 in Artificial Analysis Cyber Index It's a powerful frontier model performing at the highest level in enterprise cyber defense Outperforming Fable 5.1 Max, Opus 5.5, Astra 6, GPT-6 and other leading AI systems

.@POTUS hosts a Super Intelligence meeting at the White House 🇺🇸