DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 26 MICROSOFT 🔥: - Biggest Copilot update yet: Home (Chat + Cowork), Code, Au

DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 26

MICROSOFT 🔥:
- Biggest Copilot update yet: Home (Chat + Cowork), Code, Autopilot, and Office embedded in the app.
- Autopilot is the proactive long-running enterprise agent, a rebranded Scout. Code builds tenant-hosted apps on GitHub Copilot tech, with a Managed Copilot Runtime.
- Rolling out through Frontier. Cowork, Code, and Autopilot are usage-billed. Today surfaces priority M365 items without a prompt.

OPENAI 🔥:
- Codex outage is over. Paid usage limits reset across Codex and ChatGPT Work.
- ChatGPT desktop got a new sidebar, split from chat history, plus a broader UI pass.
- Research agents sent training and eval data to third parties. 53 user-uploaded images hit unlisted image hosts. Review will take months.

ANTHROPIC 🔥:
- Plugin portal is live: submit a single MCP connector or a plugin bundle, track review, and see usage. MCP usage across Claude is up 110x this year.
- Claude solved a nine-loop scattering-amplitude problem unsupervised over days, for a few thousand dollars. Dixon verified it.
- Claude Code layout for Desktop is in development: new model selector and an expandable usage-limits section.

GOOGLE 🔥:
- Gemini Notebook Interactive Learning Overviews are open to all users.
- Live Chat is on the Notebook mobile app: hands-free voice across about 100 languages.