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OPENAI 🔥: Frontier AI training was already resumed on October 1st, according to the latest statement from OpenAI.

Additionally, a substantial amount of compute will be consistently allocated to red teaming.

This is a very important part as the cost of aligned frontier AI development will go up proportionally to its intelligence. Eventually, this may impact token pricing as well. Yet, even these measures might be not sufficient which would imply further cost increase. “We leave in the era of underpriced compute.”

KIMI AI🔥: Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the 8th spot on WebDev Arena, with Kimi AI moving to the 4th place among AI labs overall. That a big move 👀

BREAKING 🔥: Kimi AI officially announced Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T total and 104B active params MoE open model. On benchmarks, Kimi K3.1 Pro performs on par with leading AI models like Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, while being significantly cheaper. Open weights are coming on November 4th as well!

SPACEXSI 🔥: Cursor now has Computer Use capabilities and can operate other applications on your laptop. The feature is especially usefull for app development, as it can also run mobile simulators. Computer Use is activated on demand or via @-mentioning "Computer Use" command. Cursor is a Superapp now! 👀

ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 4K, featuring richer visual detail. > Seedance 2.5 4K offers richer color gradations and smoother transitions thanks to 10-bit color depth. > Users can use Draft mode to experiment with low-cost 480p previews and then upscale them to 4K.

BREAKING 🔥: Kimi K3.1 Pro is now rolling out on Kimi AI web and mobile. > Kimi K3.1 Pro - Complex tasks and professional work, all-around flagship. Testing time! 👀

ICYMI 👀: Perplexity released its pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 decision model as Mac application that serves decision API locally. The model takes 5.8 GB of a space and requires 16 GB of memory. 100% True 🤖

META 🔥: Muse AI agent is rolling out in Japan! US, Canada, Japan.. We need it EU as well 👀

MiniMax has published MiniMax M3.1 Flash weights on HuggingFace.

The model has 428B parameters total, 23B activated per token.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash, also known as "Space Bunny" stealth model from OpenRouter, was announced on October 19 and is now available on MiniMax platform and APIs.

Gemini 4 Carbon early test results are in ahead of public release Gemini 4 Carbon appears to be in early access outside Google, with testers citing stronger 3D output than Argon but weaker UI work and much slower speeds. Leaks suggest launch may be close, though public claims remain unverified. 🗞 #google @testingcatalog

Kimi K3.1 is prepared for upcoming release after Arena testing Signs point to Moonshot nearing a Kimi K3.1 launch, likely the anonymous Arena model Kibitz. Early Arena tests suggest strong coding and 3D output, fast response, and very low cost, though claims remain unconfirmed pending a model card. 🗞 #kimi @testingcatalog

Canva launches Craft image model with 2K output and API Canva launched Craft, its first image-generation model, in Dream Lab and via API. Built for design tasks, it delivers up to 2K images, multilingual prompts and text, ranked outputs, editable layers, and faster, lower-cost inference. 🗞 #release @testingcatalog

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 23 ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) is now generally available, bringing the full Claude Platform feature set with Google Cloud IAM and billing. - Starting next week, Claude web, desktop and mobile sessions will run in auto mode by default on Pro, Max and Team plans, with an automated check blocking risky actions. - Claude Duet will be optimized for Apple's foldable iPhone Duo. OPENAI 🔥: - The Decisions API is now generally available with GPT-6 Luna, offering near real-time classifications and decisions up to 10x faster at $0.10 per million input tokens. SPACEXSI 🔥: - Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and more apps on your phone, rolling out on iOS and Android. - Grok Bot can now use your 1Password account to sign in with logins you approve, rolling out over the next few days. GOOGLE 🔥: - Google Cloud introduced Agent Compute Engine, a new VM type for running AI agents at scale, alongside expanded agent governance tools. - Gemini can now reference your Google Maps searches and saved places alongside Google Calendar for tailored daily recommendations. MINIMAX 🔥: - MiniMax opened the weights of M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE model with 23B active parameters, with day-0 support from Together, SGLang, vLLM partners and NVIDIA NeMo. MOONSHOT 🔥: - Moonshot officially teased an upcoming Kimi K3.1 release after the model was spotted performing strongly in Arena testing. MICROSOFT 🔥: - Microsoft is rolling out its redesigned Copilot app to more users on web and mobile, with voice mode now appearing to require a paid plan. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - Perplexity added a Batch API to its Agent API supporting up to 50k requests per file, and its Decision Model can now run fully locally on a Mac. CANVA 🔥: - Canva launched Craft, its first in-house frontier image model built for design, available to all users and via API. IDEOGRAM 🔥: - Ideogram released Vector 1.0, a model that generates editable, layered SVGs and vectorizes images, available in Ideogram and via API. 1PASSWORD 🔥: - 1Password announced an Agents platform with Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXSI and others so personal agents can work without seeing your passwords, with a waitlist open.

An upcoming Kimi K3.1 model release was officially teased! Earlier, Kimi K3.1 has been spotted in testing on Arena and reportedly has a very good performance. Soon 👀

Anthropic ❤️ Google Cloud Claude Platform features are now available on GCP!

“With the Anthropic managed offering, Google Cloud customers now receive the full set of Claude API features, with new features and betas shipping the same day they go live on the native Claude Platform.”

This solution covers Claude Managed Agents, Code Execution, Computer Use, Agent Skills and Advisor Strategy. Google is a Platform of Platforms now 👀

SPACEXSI 🔥: Grok Bot can now be connected to system mobile apps including Calendar, Reminders, Home and more! This capability is rolling out on both iOS and Android. So far, I have only seen this integration in Perplexity and Claude. This is quite a big unlock, at least up to a level that iOS and Android provide. I keep using it more and more!

OPENAI 🔥: Decisions API is now in general availability and can be used via APIs and the OpenAI Platform. > Decisions API is a Jev-like solution enabling you to build workflows based on extremely quick decisions. > Predicate, Choice, and Score decisions are available. It thinks that there is a 21% chance that the GPT-7 family will be released this year. Looks right 👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude will start using auto mode for permission selection on Pro, Max, and Team plans by default, starting from next week. In this mode, Claude won’t ask users to approve every step but would rather rely on its internal safety evaluation. Auto testing 👀

1Password announced its Agents platform in collaboration with Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and many others. > "1Password will connect to your personal agents, whether you have one or multiple, so they can work without seeing your passwords." Waitlist OPT-IN is open 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: A new Agent Compute Engine for Google Cloud has been introduced. ACE is a new VM type built for AI agents, designed for users to operate at scale. The system includes Agent Gateway, Agent Registry, Agent Identity, and Agent Observability.