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GOOGLE 🔥: A new Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is now available on Google AI Studio and APIs as well as Gemini Desktop for macOS!

“Auto-detection of 85+ languages out of the box”

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Looks like more users are now routed to Claude Fable 5.1 from Claude Fable 5 in the background.

Some users have spotted that knowledge cutoff of the Fable 5 model got updated, pointing to a stealth rollout.

Soon? 👀

Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash under MIT license Z.ai launched GLM-5.3-Flash, a multimodal 320B-A18B model for coding, agents and visual reasoning. It targets lower cost, 1M-token context, MIT-licensed weights, and reported gains over GLM-5.2 with lower compute and memory use. 🗞 #zhipuai @testingcatalog

ChatGPT users can now gift credits 🔥 Users can choose how many credits to purchase. Credits can be gifted via a link or via email. > "The recipient's account must use the same currency to claim this gift." > "If the gift isn't claimed within 30 days, you'll receive an automatic refund. Credits expire 365 days after being claimed."

Claude unifies memory across Chat and Cowork Anthropic is launching shared Claude memory across chat and Cowork, with saved context carrying between both. Memory is on by default for most users, editable in settings, and excludes sensitive topics unless users opt in. 🗞 #anthropic @testingcatalog

ZHIPU AI 🔥: GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha) has been officially announced! > GLM-5.3-Flash is a 320B-A18B multimodal model. > Available under the MIT License. > Previously known as Ox Alpha, a stealth model from OpenRouter Looks like GLM-5.3-Flash and Gemini 3.7 Flash are close "friends" for real.

Alibaba released Qwen3.8 Flash, a new multimodal 125B-parameter MoE model. > 262K native context, extensible to 1M with YaRN. > Pricing on QwenCloud API - $ 0.16/1M input tokens and $ 0.47/1M output tokens. > Built on top of the new architecture, serving as a precursor to the architecture used in Qwen4. > Qwen3.8 Flash scores 58.7 on DeepSWE 1.1 and 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro.

Ox Alpha, a recent stealth model from OpenRouter is GLM-5.3 Flash from Zhipu AI. As it has been foretold 👀

ChatGPT Work on iOS now offers a persistent, secure sign-in for websites without accessing your passwords. > This native flow works with 1Password and supports streamlined 2FA authentication. > Native support on ChatGPT for Android and web is coming soon, too. AI will eat the internet 👀

Claude Academy now has a dedicated section in the menu widget. Learn, right in the app 👀

Claude got an updated unified memory across Claude Chat and Cowork. > Also, a new toggle to keep memories about sensitive topics has been added to the Settings menu. > Memoriesed topics are now split into separate categories. > Memory now has a dedicated tab in Claude Settings. > Users can now tell Claude what to remember directly from the memory browser UI.

Morning Brief feature seems to be rolling out on Claude for some users. Morning Brief runs on scheduled tasks and guides users through customizing preferences and Connectors to pull data. Did you get it too? 👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: WSJ reports that Anthropic is pitching more than $30T in potential revenue to its investors.

This would be bigger than $28.5T estimations for SpaceXAI.

Curious to see a break down per revenue streams for them. I bet that a huge pile of it would be on Enterprise. Will OpenAI have a chance to exceed this?

Google announced its first plugins for Gemini Enterprise, tailored for legal and finance use cases. These plugins combine selected Apps and Skills under purpose based bundle instructions. It is also expected that bundles eventually will arrive to consumer Gemini. What worries me here is that we got only two. Soon? 👀

OpenAI announced initial performance results of their own Jalapeño chip for AI inference. > 1.5–1.9× more AI work per watt > 1.7–3.6× lower end-to-end latency > 2.1–4.1× higher performance on highly interactive workloads

Antigravity 2.0 adds new VCS controls and a terminal Google added Git controls and an embedded terminal to Antigravity 2.0, letting developers review all workspace changes, inspect diffs, run commands, stage files, and commit from the sidebar without leaving the app. 🗞 #google @testingcatalog

ICYMI: SpaceXAI plans NVIDIA Vera deployment for Starmind NVIDIA says SpaceXAI will use Vera CPUs for Grok’s agent workloads and plans a space-ready Vera Rubin NVL72 system for the Starmind satellite, extending one AI computing stack from Earth data centers to orbit. 🗞 #spacexai @testingcatalog

PERPLEXITY 🔥: Perplexity Pro and Mux subscribers can now use a new Portable Computer on DGX Spark from NVIDIA, purely powered by local models! Available models: > PPLX 27B is a new post-trained model from Perplexity. > Qwen 3.8 27B > Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (coming soon) They really did it! 🤖

APPLE 🔥: A new Mac Studio powered by M6 and M5 Ultra chips have been announced along with Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro. "M6, Apple’s first 2 nm chip, features a larger, more powerful 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU, and Dual 16-core Neural Engine, while M5 Ultra is Apple’s first quad-die architecture and its most powerful chip ever" "M5 Ultra, the ultimate powerhouse for pro and AI workloads, uses next-generation UltraFusion technology to form a quad-die architecture for the first time in an M-series system on a chip (SoC). The chip includes an up-to-36-core CPU and up-to-80-core GPU with a massive 1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth, 50 percent more than M3 Ultra." Mac mini with M6 delivers: > Up to 13.5x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio when compared to Mac mini with M1, and up to 4.8x faster than M4. Mac mini with M5 Pro delivers: > Up to 8.5x faster LLM prompt processing performance in LM Studio when compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, and up to 4x faster than M4 Pro. I need a new Mac Studio cluster 👀

ChatGPT now can generate customisable sticker packs via GPT Image. Users can share these stickers on iMessage or WhatsApp later as well.