DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 24 META 🔥: - Meta VR Glasses: first VR in glasses, not a headset. AI-native OS, Muse avatar, eye + hand + voice control. - Muse now has voice and realtime video, and is coming to glasses for hands-free use all day. - Muse Charm, a keychain pin for talking to Muse, ships in December. - Meta Glasses get FDA-cleared hearing-aid mode. Private processing means Meta cannot see some on-device AI. OPENAI 🔥: - ChatGPT Voice now runs plugins (email, calendar, Slack) and GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. - Voice is live in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile. Global rollout in the latest app. GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS are live in AI Studio and the Gemini API. - Custom voices across 100+ languages, or pick from 2,000+ stock voices. Flash hits Gemini Notebook; Flash-Lite hits Google Vids. - Gemini app is rolling out new MCP connections: Linear, Airtable, Webflow, Monday, PandaDoc, and Wispr Flow. - Koray says Gemini 4 is in early post-training and hopes for an early drop well before year-end. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude Marketplace is live: Slack and Notion connectors, agents from Cursor and CrowdStrike, partners like Accenture. - Cloud sessions leave research preview. One-time credits: $100 Pro, $250 Max. Claim by Oct 7. - Projects in Claude Code can now run threads locally. CURSOR 🔥: - Rollouts watch deploys on Teams and Enterprise. Security Reviewer now averages 3.8 min. - Token costs down 7% with no drop in agent quality. ALIBABA 🔥: - Qwen Intelligence ships three mobile agents. Mobile-Use hits 90% end-to-end success on real-device benches. - Qwen-Audio-3.1 is out. TTS ~70% off, Realtime ~85% off, ASR up to 95% off. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.