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Meta ❤️ Stilla

Stilla is joining Meta to help building AI products for businesses!

“Eight months ago we launched Stilla as one of the best multiplayer AI agents for teams and companies. Today, Stilla is joining Meta to bring this expertise and tech to strengthen their AI products for business.”

Stilla is a secure AI teammate for companies.

Meta just recently released its own AI teammate “Muse” for consumers.

This feels like a natural expansion vector for Meta, especially considering their existing business suite.

OPENAI 🔥: Voice Mode on ChatGPT now supports GPT 5.6 Sol and GPT 6 Astra.

Support for GPT 6 Astra is only available on ChatGPT Pro accounts.

Additionally we got new ChatGPT Voice limits: 3h for Plus, 15h for Pro $100

“Pro $200 users continue to get unlimited use per day.”

Google announced new cross-app integrations across Google Workspace.

"5 new agentic capabilities across Google Workspace apps"

1. Creating a presentation directly from Google Chat
2. Building detailed spreadsheets without leaving Google Drive
3. Drafting and sending team emails directly inside Google Docs
4. Transforming long email threads into structured briefs
5. Converting a written proposal in Docs into a branded deck

APPLE 🔥: iPhone Duo is here!

> 24h of battery life on a charge.
> Powered by a new A20 PRO chip.
> Can be used as a clock 💀
> Multitasking support across various apps.
> Thinnest iPhone ever 👀
> Pre-orders start in October.

APPLE 🔥: Apple Watch will be able to capture audio from the world around you, save notes as memories, summarise meetings, and more!

> Comes in the form of new Live Rewind and Siri Recap features.
> Requires Siri AI to work; comes later this year.

Loads of startups got killed 💀

APPLE 🔥: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max have been announced!

> 6-core CPU, 7-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine.
> Loads of new Apple Intelligence features.
> New Siri AI with expressive voices powered by local models.
> 40% better performance.
> 3 live activities on the Dynamic Island.
> 30h battery life per charge on the Max.

Apple Event is starting soon 🍎

Inception launches Mercury 2.5 at 1,107 tokens per second

Inception launched Mercury 2.5, a diffusion LLM claiming 40% higher intelligence than Mercury 2, 1,107 tokens per second, a 260K context window, and low pricing, targeting fast search, voice, and coding workloads.

🗞 #ai @testingcatalog

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster editing

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.5 brings faster image generation, sharper output, tighter edit control, and stronger subject consistency. It adds Sketch, templates, and API models Flare and Sunburst for consumer and production use.

🗞 #chatgpt @testingcatalog

Meta introduces Muse as a proactive personal agent

Meta unveiled Muse, a persistent AI agent for long-running personal tasks. It works in the background, uses web and system tools, keeps context across chats, and adds logs, approvals and memory controls for oversight and safety.

🗞 #meta @testingcatalog

BREAKING 🔥: AI alignment researchers from Anthropic are raising awareness of risks that future models with RSI capabilities may posses.

“We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”

“Neither company is acting responsibly.”

These two tweets could be the most important pieces of text ever written in the entire history of humanity.

* I know I am late with this coverage but it is extremely important to amplify.

I am not even sure if I should get excited here or not

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 9

META 🔥:
> Muse is live. Internal name was Hatch. US-only personal agent on iOS, Android, web, and WhatsApp.
> Free tier plus $20 and $100 monthly plans. Powered by Muse Spark 1.3. Smart glasses later!

OPENAI 🔥:
> ChatGPT Images 2.5 is out for all ChatGPT, Work, and Codex users. Up to 50% faster, sharper detail, more reliable multi-turn edits.
> New Sketch tool in ChatGPT. API adds GPT-Image-2.5 Flare (fast default) and Sunburst (higher control).
> An unreleased next-gen model, run with ~10,000 agents for 88 hours, produced a claimed solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Independent verification still pending.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
> Pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon resigned. Says neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly, and both are racing to self-improving superintelligence.
> Alignment Science lead Evan Hubinger: “We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans.” His personal odds: >10% this decade. No plan yet for superintelligence alignment.

X 🔥:
> Original Content Rewards is rolling out. Old Creator Revenue Sharing ended Sept 7.
> Last old payout around Sept 11. First new payout Sept 25 if you get approved. I wasn't :P

GOOGLE 🔥:
> Google DeepMind shipped AlphaGenome Atlas — predicted effects for all 9 billion single-letter human DNA variants, plus a single AVI impact score. Free for non-commercial use.

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

Since the Meta Muse agent isn't available to everyone, here is a quick UI walkthrough of its web version.

Highlights 👀
> The animated Muse avatar is very cool! You can ask Muse to change how it looks, and it will generate the new look along with all the animations.

> WhatsApp connection is available from the start.

> Users can add a payment method to Muse in order to enable agentic shopping.

> Soul and Memory files are easily accessible and editable.

> "Power" and "Maximum" paid plans with 500M and 3B Muse tokens are available.

META 🔥: Muse Agent has been announced!

- Powered by Muse Spark 1.3 👀
- Available on both iOS and Android but seems to be geo restricted to certain regions.

“Muse has its own computer, with a file system and a terminal, so it can write its own code and build the tools a task needs. It also has access to a full web browser, so it can search, navigate sites, fill out forms, and complete transactions, like booking and purchasing.”

Mark Zuckerberg, entire Meta marketing team VS X and museband.

UPD: It turned out to be a bug on X where the username changes on its own when you post!