DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 23

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic-managed) is now generally available, bringing the full Claude Platform feature set with Google Cloud IAM and billing.
- Starting next week, Claude web, desktop, and mobile sessions will run in auto mode by default on Pro, Max, and Team plans, with an automated check blocking risky actions.
- Claude Duet will be optimized for Apple's foldable iPhone Duo.

OPENAI 🔥:
- The Decisions API is now generally available with GPT-6 Luna, offering near real-time classifications and decisions up to 10x faster at $0.10 per million input tokens.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and more apps on your phone, rolling out on iOS and Android.
- Grok Bot can now use your 1Password account to sign in with logins you approve, rolling out over the next few days.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google Cloud introduced Agent Compute Engine, a new VM type for running AI agents at scale, alongside expanded agent governance tools.
- Gemini can now reference your Google Maps searches and saved places alongside Google Calendar for tailored daily recommendations.

MINIMAX 🔥:
- MiniMax opened the weights of M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE model with 23B active parameters, with day-0 support from Together, SGLang, vLLM partners, and NVIDIA NeMo.

MOONSHOT 🔥:
- Moonshot officially teased an upcoming Kimi K3.1 release after the model was spotted performing strongly in Arena testing.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- Microsoft is rolling out its redesigned Copilot app to more users on web and mobile, with voice mode now appearing to require a paid plan.

PERPLEXITY 🔥:
- Perplexity added a Batch API to its Agent API supporting up to 50k requests per file, and its Decision Model can now run fully locally on a Mac.

CANVA 🔥:
- Canva launched Craft, its first in-house frontier image model built for design, available to all users and via API.

IDEOGRAM 🔥:
- Ideogram released Vector 1.0, a model that generates editable, layered SVGs and vectorizes images, available in Ideogram and via API.

1PASSWORD 🔥:
- 1Password announced an Agents platform with Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and others, so personal agents can work without seeing your passwords, with a waitlist open.

* Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.