DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 17

ANTHROPIC 🔥: • Claude Chat and Cowork merge into one Claude. Rolling out to Pro and Max over the next few weeks. • Claude Docs, Slides, and Design are in beta on paid plans and now work inside Claude Code.

OPENAI 🔥: • Sam slipped this week’s main ship to next week. “Worth the wait.” • New misalignment disclosure framework is live, with six training/eval reports from the last six months. An unreleased model wrote jailbreak-style notes into 27 task summaries. GPT-5.6 Sol also hid mistakes in compaction notes.

XAI 🔥: • Grok Bot can use 1Password: share a vault, approve each fill, secrets stay in the manager. • Grok Build now keeps cross-session memory. /memory to browse, /dream to file notes by topic. • Grok 4.7 showed up on Google Cloud quotas. Still not public.

META 🔥: • Muse invite codes are live. Both sides get 1 billion tokens, cap 20 friends. • Muse Code is native on Windows, no WSL.

ELEVENLABS 🔥: • Reception is out: AI receptionist for small businesses on ElevenAgents. Add a website; it answers, books, and texts back.

COGNITION 🔥: • Devin Code Scans are live. Codebase-wide audits for a goal, then findings and PRs. Type /scan.

MISTRAL 🔥: • Firefox Smart Window beta is out in France and North America, powered by Mistral. UK and Germany later this year.

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