AI News: The AI Slowdown: What You Need to Know

CCClaude Cowork + Chat mergeAnthropicUnverified

Anthropic announced Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one experience, rolling out gradually to Pro and Max plans. The creator doesn't have it yet on his Max plan and complains about announcing before availability.

CCClaude CodeAnthropicAvailable in EU

Redesigned projects in Claude Code: set a goal and repo, and a coordinator routes work to threads, each a cloud session on its own branch. In beta for select Pro and Max users without existing projects.

GNGemini NotebookGoogleAvailable in EU

Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) adds audio chats about notes, a mobile audio recorder for lectures, and interactive learning overviews with quizzes and flashcards. Not fully rolled out yet.

SASiri AIAppleNot in EU

Apple's more capable Siri using Apple Intelligence can see the screen, use context across apps and act on your behalf. Rolling out in beta with iOS 27; the creator is still on a wait list.

Q3Qwen 3.8 Omni FlashAlibabaUnverified

New Alibaba multimodal model with 1M token context, aimed at video editing, music video creation, audio-visual summarization and real-time conversation. Benchmarked against Gemini 3.8 Flash and Muse Spark 1.2; the creator hasn't tested it yet.

Stealth model 'Union Alpha' on OpenRouter and OpenCode was revealed as Paro 26.9, a system routing among several models with a checking harness. In the creator's Bucky bench it used under a third of GPT6 Astra's tokens and finished faster with a similar result.

Meta subscription offering extra features like Instagram Plus, Facebook Plus and WhatsApp Plus plus more AI usage, priced from $2.99 to $4.99 a month. Meta AI remains free for everyday use.

MUMuseMetaUnverified

Meta's agent gained the ability to make outbound phone calls to US businesses, such as booking appointments or waiting on hold. Rolling out gradually; the creator hasn't tried it.

G3Gemini 3.8 LiveGoogleUnverified

Google's live dialogue models, claimed to beat GPT Live 1 Astra on shared benchmarks. The Extended Thinking version targets more complex workflows, aimed at developers building customer service agents.

Google Labs agent for families that sends a shared daily brief and helps with event and task management, with access controls. The creator couldn't try it as access is still gradually opening.

GBGrok BuildxAIUnverified

Grok Build now has built-in memory that writes notes in the background while you work and reads them back when you return to a project.

EMElevenLabs Music v2.5ElevenLabsAvailable in EU

ElevenLabs released Music v2.5; the creator played a sample and called it another decent music model to try.

VMvidIQ MCPvidIQAvailable in EU

ElevenLabs added voice, music, image and video generation to its MCP so agents like Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or OpenClaw can generate media on a user's behalf.

CAChatGPT Ads (conversational ads)OpenAIUnverified

OpenAI's new ad format lets users click an ad to open a separate chat with the advertiser, rather than just showing an ad below responses.

UHUBTECH humanoid robot factoryUBTECHUnverified

UBTECH is building a factory able to produce 10,000 humanoid robots a year, one every 10 minutes, with humanoids helping on tasks like palletizing and material loading.