modelSimon Willison
Within an hour Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Sol and Luna cost half of their GPT-5.6 equivalents, kicking off a new price war. These are early impressions, but the lineup of frontier models just grew again.
announcementThe Verge
At Meta Connect, Meta announced a batch of updates for its Muse AI agent. Muse agents are getting their own email addresses they can use to accomplish tasks, and you will be able to communicate with them in more ways, including video chat. Meta is iterating on the agent quickly.
modelSimon Willison
Google released two new text-to-speech models: gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. They come with a library of over 2,000 voices, plus the ability to create a custom voice from just a 30-second audio sample of a voice you have the rights to use.
researchThe Verge
Anthropic says its AI Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system similar to the machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It is the first result from the company's newly launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science.
toolTechCrunch
YouTube's new custom feeds let users describe the videos they want to see in their own words. Gemini then builds a personalized feed assembled around the request. Instead of passively following recommendations, you get more direct control over what shows up.
toolTechCrunch
OpenAI is bringing agentic capabilities to the ChatGPT mobile app. Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab to complete agentic tasks directly from their phones, moving practical features closer to where people actually work.
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