DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 24

META 🔥:
- Meta VR Glasses: first VR in glasses, not a headset. AI-native OS, Muse avatar, eye + hand + voice control.
- Muse now has voice and realtime video, and is coming to glasses for hands-free use all day.
- Muse Charm, a keychain pin for talking to Muse, ships in December.
- Meta Glasses get FDA-cleared hearing-aid mode. Private processing means Meta cannot see some on-device AI.

OPENAI 🔥:
- ChatGPT Voice now runs plugins (email, calendar, Slack) and GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna.
- Voice is live in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile. Global rollout in the latest app.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are live in AI Studio and the Gemini API.
- Custom voices across 100+ languages, or pick from 2,000+ stock voices. Flash hits Gemini Notebook; Flash-Lite hits Google Vids.
- Gemini app is rolling out new MCP connections: Linear, Airtable, Webflow, Monday, PandaDoc, and Wispr Flow.
- Koray says Gemini 4 is in early post-training and hopes for an early drop well before year-end.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude Marketplace is live: Slack and Notion connectors, agents from Cursor and CrowdStrike, partners like Accenture.
- Cloud sessions leave research preview. One-time credits: $100 Pro, $250 Max. Claim by Oct 7.
- Projects in Claude Code can now run threads locally.

CURSOR 🔥:
- Rollouts watch deploys on Teams and Enterprise. Security Reviewer now averages 3.8 min.
- Token costs down 7% with no drop in agent quality.

ALIBABA 🔥:
- Qwen Intelligence ships three mobile agents. Mobile-Use hits 90% end-to-end success on real-device benches.
- Qwen-Audio-3.1 is out. TTS ~70% off, Realtime ~85% off, ASR up to 95% off.

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