DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 31

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Antigravity is now available in Android Studio.
- Antigravity is testing a Running tab for background tasks (via testingcatalog).
- Varun Mohan teased a big week of Antigravity launches.
- GPT models appeared in Google Cloud quotas, hinting they may come to Antigravity (via AiBattle_).
- Google's Omni Flash 1.2 was spotted with 1080p and 4K output, frame interpolation and extend (via chetaslua).
- Project Suncatcher prompted a TPU in orbit and got a haiku back.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Max 5x is now Max ($100) and Max 20x is now Ultra ($200), with no 5-hour limit on verified Ultra.
- Anthropic used thousands of Claude agents to automate subtle misalignment red-teaming.
- The Claude API max request size rose from 32 MB to 128 MB.
- Claude Code got a server-side rule restricting rewrites of existing video games (via chasmmmmmmmmmmm).

OPENAI 🔥:
- The Agents API added Auto Review and async compaction.
- OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic will honor a shared robots.txt AI-training opt-out.
- ChatGPT and Codex will share one usage limit starting in December (via btibor91).

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bot 1.0, the first stable build, is out for download.
- Grok Bot is preparing a Tasks hub and texting support (via testingcatalog).
- Grok Bot added per-bot voice and voice-language settings.

AMAZON 🔥:
- AWS grew 39% to $46B in Q3, its fastest growth in nearly five years.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity Computer can now control Chrome from the Mac and Windows apps.
- Computer can now share a session when you ask it to.

NVIDIA 🔥:
- NVIDIA open-sourced RE-USE, a 9.6M-parameter speech-cleanup model.

COHERE 🔥:
- Cohere will invest over C$4B in Canada and add 1,500+ jobs by 2031.

PIKA 🔥:
- Pika released H3 Flex, an open-weight video model.

GRANOLA 🔥:
- Granola added free, unlimited voice typing in any app.

IDEOGRAM 🔥:
- Ideogram added context-window edits up to 2K in high-res images.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.