🗞 Daily AI Brief (2-Min) | Sept 26

🔥 MICROSOFT
• Biggest Copilot update yet: Home (Chat + Cowork), Code, Autopilot, and Office embedded in the app.

🔥 OPENAI
• Codex was down but outage is over. Paid usage limits reset across Codex and ChatGPT Work.

• ChatGPT desktop got a new sidebar, split from chat history, plus a broader UI pass.

• OpenAI agents sent training and eval data to third parties. 53 user-uploaded images hit unlisted image hosts. Review will take months.

🔥 ANTHROPIC
• Plugin portal is live: submit a single MCP connector or a plugin bundle, track review, and see usage. MCP usage across Claude is up 110x this year.

• Claude solved a nine-loop scattering-amplitude problem unsupervised over days, for a few thousand dollars. Physicist Dixon verified it.

• Claude Code layout for Desktop is in development: new model selector and an expandable usage-limits section.

🔥 GOOGLE
• Gemini Notebook Interactive Learning Overviews are now open to all users.

• Live Chat is on the Notebook mobile app: hands-free voice across about 100 languages.