DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 28 GOOGLE 🔥: - Google DeepMind announced Genie 4, its most realistic interactive world model with natural-language steering and native audio, rolling out first to Trusted Testers before Google AI Ultra and Gemini API access. - Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now in public preview on Google Cloud for enterprise robotics deployments. - Gemini Notebook on mobile can now record up to an hour of live audio and use it as a source. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Anthropic shared early results from drug-development research partnerships with six organizations using Claude. - Anthropic is letting all US Claude Max subscribers off the Claude Duet waitlist this week, with US Pro users next in line and no timeline yet for access outside the US. OPENAI 🔥: - ChatGPT added iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins on all plans across web, desktop and iOS. - Codex CLI 0.165.0 adds a built-in Google Cloud Vertex AI provider and GPT-6.1 Terra in the model catalog. MICROSOFT 🔥: - MAI-Image-2.7-Preview launched as Microsoft AI's new image-editing model, debuting at #3 on Arena Edit and #2 on AA-Image-Editing. - MAI-Image-2.6 and MAI-Image-2.6-Flash are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. - MAI Cyber 1.1 Flash is live on MDASH, matching MAI Cyber 1 Flash at 18% lower cost per scan. - GitHub Copilot now supports server-to-server authentication for GitHub Apps in public preview, ahead of GitHub Universe opening today. SPACEXSI 🔥: - Grok Bot now supports Memory Import to bring over preferences and context from another AI assistant. - Cursor Design Mode gained Annotate for editing elements, drawing on the page and reviewing designs at different screen sizes. META 🔥: - Muse is now available in Singapore on iOS, Android and web. NVIDIA 🔥: - NVIDIA and Meta are expanding their collaboration on Muse models, with broader Vera Rubin deployments planned at Meta. - Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs are now generally available on Oracle Cloud, with OCI Superclusters scaling to multi-gigawatt size. ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS 🔥: - Intelligence Index v5 launched with new mostly private benchmarks, putting Claude Opus 5.5 on top at 58. LIQUID AI 🔥: - Liquid AI released LFM3, an open-weight family of six 2B-class text, vision, audio and omni models on a new tri-hybrid architecture. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.