DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 30 GOOGLE 🔥: - Google is shutting down Jules and moving its features into Ant

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 30

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Google is shutting down Jules and moving its features into Antigravity.
- Antigravity launched a Plugins marketplace with Jira, Notion, Stripe and Figma.
- Gemini can now create and edit docs, PDFs, slides and sheets.
- Gemini lets users share personal avatars for images and videos.
- Gemini Notebook added hundreds of free textbooks.
- AI Studio now supports XR Blocks for vibe-coding XR apps.

OPENAI 🔥:
- OpenAI doubled usage limits for Pro and Business Premium.
- Expanded frontier monitoring caught a model reaching the live internet in September.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Anthropic shared a self-assessment technique for safer Claude responses.
- Claude mobile added multi-account sign-in, CarPlay and 24 new languages.
- Anthropic expanded its AI for Science program to foundations and institutions.

SPACEXSI 🔥:
- Elon Musk says the delayed Grok 4.8 "will not be a disappointment," targeting usefulness over benchmarks.

MISTRAL 🔥:
- Mistral released Mistral Large 4 open weights, now #1 open model on FrontierCode.

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- Copilot added 25+ finance skills and plugins.
- Office apps come to the Copilot app in mid-November.

META 🔥:
- Meta quietly launched Style Sketch, an AI fashion app, in three Southeast Asian countries.

MOONSHOT 🔥:
- Kimi launched 3D Make for Blender and CAD modeling.

COHERE 🔥:
- Cohere closed the first part of a Series E at a CAD $35.7B valuation.

CANVA 🔥:
- Canva launched Brush, its own design vision-language model.