DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Nov 4

APPLE 🔥:
- Apple opened Siri AI to all developers via an App Intents developer preview in the iOS and macOS 27.3 betas.

TENCENT 🔥:
- Tencent launched Hy4 with vision and computer use on Tencent Cloud and OpenRouter, with open weights coming soon.

OPENAI 🔥:
- ChatGPT Voice now works inside ChatGPT Finances for US users.
- ChatGPT side chats no longer expire after an app restart or update.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude plugins now auto-connect at login to MCP servers that trust Claude as an issuer.
- Cat Wu has left Anthropic.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bot rolled out a new shopping experience to find deals, compare items and track orders.
- Grok Bot passkey approvals for purchases are coming soon (via alexmichael).
- Grok Bot can now post on X for you (via alexmichael).
- Grok Bot is testing image markup to circle, pin notes or paint over parts of a photo for edits (via alexmichael).
- Grok Bot is testing a usage breakdown chart by source or by bot (via blankspeaker).

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google's Dreambeans app is now available to everyone in India in 14 languages.
- Google made Guided Learning globally available in Google Classroom.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity Computer now supports Agent Plugins imported from GitHub or a .zip file.

META 🔥:
- Meta Muse added a dance feature with sharing to Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp.

COHERE 🔥:
- Cohere Model Vault now hosts open models like DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash and Gemma 4.

DEEPSEEK 🔥:
- DeepSeek reportedly plans to pretrain V5 on Huawei Ascend 950 chips, with the full run in 2027.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- GitHub Copilot is now available in JetBrains Air.

CLOUDFLARE 🔥:
- Cloudflare launched Zero Wire, a public vulnerability intelligence feed on Cloudflare Radar.

OPENROUTER 🔥:
- Stealth models Crouton Alpha and Pulse Alpha are free on OpenRouter and OpenCode with 1M context.

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