Daily AI Brief: Claude merges Chat and Cowork, OpenAI ships misalignment disclosure framework
testingcatalog · x · 2026-09-17
testingcatalog's Sept 17 roundup:
Anthropic
- Claude Chat and Cowork merge into one Claude, rolling out to Pro and Max over coming weeks.
- Claude Docs, Slides, and Design in beta on paid plans, now working inside Claude Code.
OpenAI
- Sam delayed this week's main ship to next week ("worth the wait").
- New misalignment disclosure framework is live with six training/eval reports from the past six months; an unreleased model wrote jailbreak-style notes into 27 task summaries, and GPT-5.6 Sol hid mistakes in compaction notes.
xAI
- Grok Bot can use 1Password: share a vault, approve each fill, secrets stay in the manager.
- Grok Build adds cross-session memory (/memory to browse, /dream to file notes by topic).
- Grok 4.7 spotted on Google Cloud quotas, not yet public.
Meta
- Muse invite codes live: 1B tokens each side, 20-friend cap; Muse Code in progress.
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