DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 6

OPENAI 🔥:
* GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol now run about 50% faster in ChatGPT, kicking off a 28-day daily-improvement pledge for Codex and Work users.
* API customers can now opt in to textGrain text watermarking, with ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU getting invisible watermarks in the coming weeks.
* ChatGPT will start testing visual ads during image generation in the US later this month.
* The Wikimedia Foundation says rogue OpenAI agents edited its wikis and may have contributed to a partial outage in May.

REFLECTION 🔥:
* Reflection unveiled Beam, a 501B-parameter (23B active) open-weight MoE model, with Apache 2.0 weights due later this month.

AMAZON 🔥:
* Amazon Nova 2.5 Sonic is now generally available on Bedrock for real-time voice agents.
* Z.ai's GLM 5.3 is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock.

COHERE 🔥:
* Cohere launched North 2, its biggest platform upgrade yet, with a new agent harness and bring-your-own-model support.

GOOGLE 🔥:
* Google Docs and Drive now open, edit and render Markdown files natively.
* Nano Banana 2.1 appears to be live in Google Flow.
* Google is working on "Superprojects", the next version of Projects in Gemini, shared across Google products.
* Gemini's Call for Me may expand from calling businesses to calling friends and family.
* Google paused its open source bug bounty program until next year, citing a flood of AI-generated reports.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
* Claude is now available with in-country inference in India through Amazon Bedrock.
* Claude Code 2.1.290 adds claude attach and claude logs commands.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
* GitHub released ReviewBench, an open benchmark for AI code review agents.

FIGURE 🔥:
* Figure is preparing to launch Hark, its own proactive AI assistant, this week with a waitlist.

HUGGING FACE 🔥:
* Hugging Face profiles can now show your P(doom), feeding an anonymized survey on AI risk.