DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Nov 5

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI launched Images 2.6 with GIFs and reference images in ChatGPT and Codex, plus the Flare and Sunburst models in the API.
- GPT-6.2 Astra and Sol showed up on Google Cloud quotas, and The Information says they could ship as soon as Friday (via AiBattle_).
- OpenAI is acquiring Pierre Computer Company to build Git workflows for Codex.
- An OpenAI security pipeline using an upcoming cyber model patched 948 Linux kernel privilege-escalation bugs in one run.

MOONSHOT 🔥:
- Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights are now on Hugging Face.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Antigravity v2.29 brings Voice Mode and Remote Agents for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
- Antigravity now opens Jupyter notebooks natively.
- The Gemini API computer use tool is now generally available.
- Voice Remixing for Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS is live in AI Studio and the Gemini API.
- Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash was spotted on Google Cloud (via mrfanduu).

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude desktop added a /storage command to check disk use and clear old tasks and worktrees.
- Claude Code background subagents now use about 99% less usage on status updates.

META 🔥:
- Conductor, a platform for local and cloud coding agents, is joining Meta.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Native Grok Bot calling is limited to eligible US accounts dialing US numbers, with international support still on the roadmap.
- Grok Bot is testing a refer-a-friend option that earns free usage resets (via blankspeaker).
- Grok Bot is testing a Re-run button so a routine can restart from a connector card in chat (via blankspeaker).

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- GitHub Copilot is now in public preview inside Xcode's built-in coding assistant.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity added web grounding to its Decisions API.

COGNITION 🔥:
- Cognition released SWE-2 Flash, a fast coding model.

FACTORY 🔥:
- HumanLayer is joining Factory.

NOUS RESEARCH 🔥:
- Hermes Agent got a unified marketplace.
- The Hermes mobile app opened a waitlist.

MIDJOURNEY 🔥:
- Midjourney v9 is reportedly coming before the end of the year (via koltregaskes).

RICURSIVE 🔥:
- Ricursive released Ripple-65B Preview, an open-weight model built for agentic coding.

NOTION 🔥:
- Notion now lets ChatGPT, Claude and other agents share one memory and skill set.

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