DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 11

OPENAI 🔥:
- GPT-Live-1 is live in the API. Full-duplex voice agents that listen while they speak and can hand work to other models.
- Agents API is in public beta. Managed cloud agents on the Codex harness, plus hosted sandboxes. Platform UI is rolling out too.
- ChatGPT for Financial Services is out for eligible institutions. Work mode plus GPT-6 Astra, with Daloopa, PitchBook, and LSEG data.
- New $200 Pro signups paused. Astra demand is straining capacity. Existing accounts, other plans, and the API stay up.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini desktop app for Windows is out globally on Windows 10 and 11. Alt + Space overlay for drafts, docs, and media.

META 🔥:
- Shared Muse agents are in development, likely headed for Meta Connect later this month.
- Custom Muse voices are in the works. Prompt a voice in chat, then pick it in voice mode. Working-sounds toggle spotted too.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Projects is in beta. One persistent coordinator thread with subagents, shared memory, scheduled tasks, and PR/Slack watchers.

COGNITION 🔥:
- SWE-2 is out in Devin Desktop and CLI. Post-trained on Kimi-K3. Hits 50.0 on FrontierCode and matches Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost.
- Free for Pro, Max, and Teams for a month. Devin Voice also shipped, on GPT-Live plus SWE-2.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Automations for Computer are in development. Schedule workflows or fire them on a trigger and get results delivered.

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