Daily AI brief: Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 lands, Meta Muse opens to developers
testingcatalog · x · 2026-09-19
testingcatalog's daily roundup of vendor updates:
- xAI: Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is live in the Voice API at $0.10/hr batch and $0.20/hr streaming.
- Meta: Muse connectors are live for developers (bring your API; Muse adds the agent, browser, and user context); Muse expands to Canada; a dedicated Muse Mail tab is in development.
- OpenAI: ChatGPT's desktop browser now runs Chrome extensions; plugins can connect multiple accounts in one chat via a profile tool.
- Anthropic: Claude Code 2.1.277 reads AGENTS.md when CLAUDE.md is absent (toggle in /config); embedded frontier eval partnership with Accenture.
- Google: Pics is GA in Workspace; Dreambeans daily personalized stories is GA from Labs.
- Mistral: investigated a claimed breach and says systems were not compromised.
The quoted prior-day brief adds: Claude Code projects starting from one conversation with parallel cloud threads, Grok Bot voice rollout, Meta Muse for Mac (US), Perplexity Computer effort selector, and OpenAI Astra for Law with a Legal Search Index over 230M+ URLs.
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