DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 18

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Projects now start from one Claude Code conversation. Claude spins parallel cloud threads, keeps shared memory, and surfaces an Overview panel.

XAI 🔥:
- Grok Bot voice is live. Desktop and mobile, rolling out over the next couple of days.

META 🔥:
- Muse for Mac is out, US only. Computer use across apps, files, calendar, notes, and messages. You pick what it can access.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Effort selector is live in Computer on web. Presets pair the orchestrator model with reasoning depth. Mobile and desktop next.

OPENAI 🔥:
- Astra for Law is out: GPT-6 Astra plus a Legal Search Index over 230M+ URLs. Trusted Access first, API soon.
- ChatGPT in Word hits all plans including Free, with usage limits. Business and Enterprise get a two-week GPT-5.6 Sol preview.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- CC is now a family agent: up to 5 members, shared Calendar and Tasks, plus a morning “Your Day Ahead” brief. Waitlist, US 18+.

ALIBABA 🔥:
- Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is out. First omni-modal agent model, 1M context, native audio-video plus tools. Video input cost down ~89% vs 3.5-Omni-Plus.

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