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GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing for all plans in 2026
GitHub will shift Copilot to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, with monthly AI Credits for all plans. Base prices stay the same, overages can be purchased, and admins gain spending controls.
🗞 #github @testingcatalog
Meta partners with Overview Energy to bring up to 1 GW of space solar energy to Earth!
Meta also partners with Noon Energy to deploy up to 1 GW/100 GWh of energy storage.
It is Meta vs SpacexAI now 👀
ICYMI: Gemini can now generate Docs and Sheets on web and mobile. Not sure when it was added though.
Slides are not working for now but looking at Gemini for Business, we will likely get them too, as well as an inline editor potentially.
Sonar 2 is now available on Perplexity web 👀
> Sonar models are Perplexity’s in‑house LLMs, optimized specifically for fast, web‑grounded search and answering
Which base do you think was used for Sonar 2? DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, or Qwen?
Meta 🚫 Manus AI
China has blocked Meta’s $2.000.000.000 acquisition of Manus AI platform.
The time for a new update 👀
> Manus
> from China
Yet, it is quite disappointing to observe. I think for Meta it will be much harder to catch up without them.
Whom are they gonna buy next?
I have rushed to test this one 👀
Gemini for iOS got a new voice dictation with wave animation and proper controls.
Besides that, it triggers read aloud automatically in case you have used voice dictation to prompt.
Works like a charm 🔥
Google tests Catalog and Website generation for Pomelli experiment
Google is expanding Pomelli to the EEA, UK, and Switzerland while developing Catalog for bulk product ingestion and Websites for page creation and hosting, extending the tool from social asset generation toward end-to-end marketing support.
🗞 #aitestkitchen @testingcatalog
Google prepares credits system for Gemini and new image tools
Google may shift Gemini to a monthly credit system with top-ups, replacing fixed quotas. The move would align pricing across app and developer tools, and may arrive with a new images tab around Google I/O.
🗞 #gemini @testingcatalog
A new X Chat app is now available for iOS
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Anthropic launches Memory in Claude Agents for enterprise
Anthropic has launched Memory for Claude Managed Agents in public beta, letting agents retain knowledge across sessions. The filesystem-based feature offers exportable data, API control, permissions, audit trails, and rollback options.
🗞 #ai @testingcatalog
DeepSeek released 3 new open-source V4 models
DeepSeek launched open-source V4 preview with Pro and Flash MoE models, both offering a 1M-token context by default. New sparse attention lowers long-context costs, while benchmarks place V4-Pro near top closed models.
🗞 #ai @testingcatalog
OPENAI 🚨: GPT-5.5 AND GPT-5.5-PRO MODELS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON APIs AND OPENAI PLAYGROUND.
Input price - $5 / Input MTok
Output price - $30 / Output MTok
x2 from GPT-5.4 👀
OPENAI 🚨: GPT-CODEX-5.5 HAS BEEN SPOTTED IN THE WILD.
Friday feature drop? 👀
xAI released a new "Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0" flagship voice model for building voice Agents.
The model is also available on the xAI Console for testing.
Codex gained expanded Browser Use capabilities, updated document generation, and a new auto-review feature.
The Super App 👀
OpenAI models are coming to AWS Bedrock in the coming weeks. Besides that, Amazon is hosting a livestream on April 28 with OpenAI leaders.
> Watch Matt Garman, Colleen Aubrey, Julia White, and OpenAI leaders in a candid conversation about what's next with agentic AI.
Microsoft rolled out Agent Mode for Outlook to Frontier early access users.
> Copilot in Outlook is now agentic, taking on the ongoing work of running your inbox and calendar. It triages emails, reschedules conflicts, and surfaces what matters most before you even ask.
Anthropic is working on sidebar customisation for Claude on mobile and a common Tasks list for Claude Dispatch and Claude Code.
Conway WIP as well 🚧
OpenAI 👀 Microsoft
OpenAI and Microsoft have published an amendment to their partnership allowing OpenAI to host their models via other cloud providers.
Microsoft also won’t be paying revenue share to OpenAI after 2030.
More freedom to OpenAI!
Google is working on “Printable Stickers” feature for its Mixboard Experiment.
Users will be able to convert images into stickers and order physical copies right from the same place.
Anthropic tests new Bugcrawl tool for Claude Code bug detection
Anthropic appears to be testing Bugcrawl in Claude Code, a repo-wide bug-finding agent that may propose fixes across full codebases. It would extend the Code Security and Review lineup, though no release timing or production rollout is visible.
🗞 #claude @testingcatalog
Finally got a minute to OpenAI this box 🤩
Very cool swag from the Super Bowl event, and looks like I will have some RaspberryCodex testing time today!
Users can now use Codex voice dictation in any desktop app. A new dictation shortcut needs to be enabled in the settings first.
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Google is rolling out auto-labeling for Sources on NotebookLM
Did you get it already? 👀
xAI launches Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0 for voice agents
xAI launched Grok Voice Think Fast 1.0, a real-time voice model for business calls. Via API, it supports 25+ languages, tool use, and background reasoning. xAI cites Starlink results in sales and autonomous support.
🗞 #grok @testingcatalog
Google 🤝 Anthropic
Google aims to invest $10B and up to $40B later in Anthropic according to Bloomberg.
> Google will also provide 5 GW of compute over 5 yrs, starting to come online 2027
Compute is a new currency 👀
Maket AI can now edit your floor plans in real-time
Maket launched AI Editing, a plain-language floor plan editing layer for residential design. Users can generate layouts, revise them by typing commands, and review trade-offs in real time across the v2 workspace.
🗞 #sponsored @testingcatalog
DeepSeek released a set of new open-source models from the long-awaited V4 family that perform on par with GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.6.
- DeepSeek-V4 Preview
- DeepSeek-V4-Pro
- DeepSeek-V4-Flash
V4 models are available on APIs and DeepSeek Chat!
Testing time 👀
Claude Managed Agents now have Memory support! In case you missed it, Managed Agents are available on Anthropic Workbench.
Conway will likely get it too 👀
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 on ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 as a work-focused model for coding, research, analysis, and computer tasks. It offers stronger autonomy, benchmark gains, broad ChatGPT and Codex rollout, lower token use, and upcoming API access.
🗞 #chatgpt @testingcatalog