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OPENAI 🔥: Astra will be "available soon," but its cybersecurity capabilities will be limited. > Astra scored 100% on ExploitBench. > OpenAI built a more complex "ExploitBench - Internal Port" benchmark with 20 high-severity V8 vulnerabilities that were disclosed more recently. > Astra achieved "much higher arbitrary code-execution rates than GPT‑5.6 Sol". > During the evaluation, Astra found 2 new zero-day vulnerabilities and turned them into working exploit chains. Soon 👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Fable 5.1 is now available on Claude and Claude Code. It requires extra usage credits while priced the same as Fable 5, with 75% cheaper API cache reads. > Writes in plain language and sticks to what you asked for. > Creates finished spreadsheets and checks each number as it goes. > Shows its sources and separates what's known from what's estimated.

BREAKING 🔥: Anthropic has announced Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1!

It scores 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, more than double Fable 5.

On Terminal-Bench 4.0, it scores 55.8% against 42.0% for Fable 5.

Rolling out on Claude now 👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Fable 5.1 is being prepared for the upcoming release! > The "Thought Preserved: Modifying the way the Messages API handles thought blocks to protect against distillation" support page has been updated. > Both Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 are expected soon. Soon? 👀

META 🔥: A new Muse Voice Transcribe model from MSL is now available on Meta models API.

SOTA in streaming speech-to-text. Trained on 70+ languages.

As it has been foretold 👀

META 🔥: Project Hatch will be released under the name “Muse” and will arrive with a waitlist! Hatch was an internal codename of the upcoming superapp from Meta. Read more about Hatch in the post above. Joined 👀👀👀

Visko launches Orbis, a new real-time AI video model Visko launched Orbis, a real-time video model that keeps generating as prompts change mid-stream. It maintains scene memory over long runs, outputs 4K/24 fps with sub-second updates, and leads tests in video quality, motion, and prompt match. 🗞 #sponsored @testingcatalog

PERPLEXITY 🔥: A Hybrid mode for Perplexity Computer on Mac has been officially announced! > The Hybrid mode is powered by PPLX Qwen 3.8 27B, a custom post-trained model from Perplexity. > It also comes with a Privacy Gate feature to detect PII data before it is sent to the cloud. > Perplexity also open-sourced the Privacy Gate classifier on Hugging Face.

Claude app for iOS now has an explicit warning next to the Max effort option that it consumes 1.5 more usage. Max 1.5 ⚠️

Antigravity now supports /boost command in order to power its harness system with more tokens. Deep boost 👀

Grok Bot now supports apps from Microsoft ecosystem via plugins for Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive. Expansion 🤖

Meta seems to be rolling out its voice mode to more users in EU on Meta AI app. It also comes with a possibility to upgrade to Meta One Core and Premium plans. Feels like everyone had it already 👀

OpenAI is working on bringing ChatGPT Work up and operational. Soon? 👀

SpeceXAI is working on a Library support for Grok on iOS. Media, Apps and Files are all coming there along with a filtering feature.

It seems like Claude Hub feature has been transitioned into Early Access mode. Besides that, Managed Projects for Claude Code are coming to Claude for mobile as well (an empty tile now appears during layout loading). Soon? 👀

It seems like Claude Hub feature has been transitioned into Early Access mode. Besides that, Managed Projects for Claude Code are coming to Claude for mobile as well (an empty tile now appears during layout loading). Soon? 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: A new "Rooms" concept is being prototyped on Gemini Enterprise. Rooms are based on Projects and allow users to set Goals and Playbooks for Gemini to follow. Gemini will act as an expert in the provided knowledge base to "keep the team focused." It's like a war room for AI and humans 👀

Google develops AI Rooms for Gemini Enterprise Google is testing Gemini Enterprise Rooms, a prototype shared workspace that combines team context, files, goals, playbooks, and Gemini in one place. It signals a shift toward project and operational collaboration, but launch plans remain unclear. 🗞 #google @testingcatalog

PERPLEXITY 🔥: A new Hybrid mode is coming soon on Mac, letting local models handle some subtasks. > Gemma 4 (for 16 GB machines), Qwen3.6, and Perplexity's own model (For 32 GB machines) are currently supported. > "In Hybrid mode, Computer orchestrates in the cloud and delegates suitable subtasks to a model on your Mac." > "Local models run on your Mac's own memory and processor — the more capable your machine, the larger the models it can run." > "Privacy Gate is a small model that runs entirely on your Mac. It inspects anything headed to the cloud for personal or sensitive information — and if it finds any, you decide how to handle it before anything is sent." That would be huge 👀

Perplexity prepares Hybrid mode for Computer on Mac Perplexity is preparing Hybrid Mode for Mac, combining cloud orchestration with local inference for lighter tasks, lower credit use, and added privacy. A Privacy Gate may screen sensitive data before any cloud transfer. 🗞 #perplexity @testingcatalog