OpenAI brings ChatGPT Voice to ChatGPT Work and Codex on web and mobile, letting Pro and Plus users create documents, decks, spreadsheets and websites by voice, as Meta’s Muse agent reportedly tops 500,000 users in its first week.
John Heibel releases on GitHub the source code for “I’m Upping My P(doom),” a music video generated with Claude Opus 5.5, including nine chapter files and a p5.js studio that renders the final MP4 via headless Chrome and ffmpeg.
Anthropic cuts Claude Opus 5.5 token prices—20% for input and output and 60% for cache reads—saying a representative Claude Code session now costs $2.40 versus $3.50 on Opus 5.
AWS launches the open-source Strands AI agent harness and CLI, claiming it cuts costs 26% across seven benchmarks—and 77% versus Claude Code in Fable 5—while supporting Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and local Ollama models without requiring AWS infrastructure.
Cognition adds Devin Cloud control to its CLI, allowing developers to hand off local tasks to persistent cloud VMs and access them with full SSH via devin ssh for editing, port forwarding, and scp transfers.
Xiaomi unveils MiMo-V2.6, an omni-modal AI model family it says significantly improves coding, design and cybersecurity through groupwise reinforcement learning, with its Pro version reaching 72.6 average@3 on DeepSWE v1.1 after the team freezes an unstable Mixture-of-Experts router.
Google launches Googlebooks, Android-based laptops starting at $899 that retain ChromeOS while centering Gemini features such as Magic Pointer, Rambler voice-to-text and Create My Widget; HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer and ASUS models are available for U.S. preorder ahead of October 4 availability.
AMD launches the $3,999 Ryzen AI Halo local AI platform, pairing a Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip with 128GB unified memory to run models up to 200 billion parameters and claiming 4% to 14% faster LLM token generation than Nvidia’s DGX Spark.
Google releases AX, an open-source Kubernetes-style orchestrator that runs autonomous AI agents in sandboxes across clusters using Task, Workspace, Gateway and Model primitives, while warning that its still-evolving protocols may undergo major breaking changes before a stable release.
Meta launches the SAM 3.1 API, letting developers use text prompts to detect, segment and track objects across video while preserving identity, with no model hosting or fine-tuning required and pricing starting at $2.50 per 1,000 images.