Daily AI brief: Meta glasses VR, GPT-6 voice plugins, Gemini TTS, Opus 5.5
testingcatalog · x · 2026-09-24
testingcatalog's daily AI brief (Sept 23-24, largely unconfirmed): Meta unveils VR-in-glasses with an AI-native OS and Muse avatar, Muse gains voice and realtime video with a Muse Charm keychain pin shipping in December, and Meta Glasses get FDA-cleared hearing-aid mode with on-device private processing. OpenAI's ChatGPT Voice now runs plugins (email, calendar, Slack) and GPT-6 Astra/Sol/Luna; earlier, GPT-6 Sol/Luna rolled out in ChatGPT Work and Codex at API prices 50% below the GPT-5.6 promo. Google ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS with 2,000+ stock voices across 100+ languages and new MCP connections (Linear, Airtable). Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, 40% cheaper and 30% faster than Opus 5 at $4/$20 per 1M tokens.
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