https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/ AI news flashes en https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-live-daily-brief/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-live-daily-brief/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:47:00 GMT Google added hands-free Gmail triage to Gemini Live (search, summarize, star, archive, delete) and a spoken Daily Brief from Gmail and Calendar. Daily Brief needs Google AI Plus or higher; Spark, which runs long jobs in Docs, Sheets, and Drive, needs Pro or higher. Google did not announce new Hebrew support. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/instagram-first-draft/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/instagram-first-draft/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:18:00 GMT Instagram launched First Draft on iPhone: it trims pauses from several clips and stitches a reel you can still edit. It is for multi-clip montages, talking-head, and day-in-the-life clips, after you pick more than one clip. Instagram told The Verge the tool does not use AI, unlike Adobe's Quick Cut. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/github-copilot-billing/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/github-copilot-billing/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:59:00 GMT From September 1 GitHub will reopen Copilot Business and Enterprise signups on card or PayPal, with payment required before a seat turns on. From October 1 existing card seats are billed upfront at the start of the cycle; prices stay the same and revoking a seat is not prorated. No earlier than September 28, Chat on github.com, Mobile Chat, and the cloud agent become one default-on policy. This is GitHub Copilot, not Microsoft 365 Copilot. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/openai-rosalind-workbench/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/openai-rosalind-workbench/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:27:00 GMT OpenAI opened a research preview of Rosalind Workbench inside the ChatGPT app, one workspace for scientific tools and the GPT-Rosalind life-sciences model. Guided tasks cover protein and small-molecule design, structure viewers, and NGS from FASTQ through QC, bulk RNA-seq, and single-cell, with a plan held for researcher approval. Explore uses ordinary ChatGPT models; Research needs an organization request, individual access is still coming, and the lab has no affiliate program. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-omni-11/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-omni-11/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT Google opened Omni 1.1 Flash to developers, with scene extension, first/last-frame interpolation, and 4K upscaling. It is in Google AI Studio and in Flow for Plus and higher. This is Google’s own generation stack, not a third-party avatar studio. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/anthropic-mhs/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/anthropic-mhs/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT The lab opened a shared spec for how AI agents should operate physical hardware without wrecking the bench. First access goes to scientific labs and advanced manufacturers, not a consumer launch. There is no affiliate layer on this story. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-35-transcribe/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-35-transcribe/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Google released a transcription model aimed at live conversation, not only uploaded files. There is a streaming endpoint and a file endpoint, with work on noise and jargon. This is Google’s model in the Gemini API — not the Gemini crypto exchange, and not a third-party narrator. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gpt-56-price-cut/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gpt-56-price-cut/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT In an update to the launch post, OpenAI dropped Sol API and credit pricing by more than 20% for the next three months. This is a flagship-model discount, not a coupon for a writing SaaS. OpenAI has no public individual affiliate program. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/elevenlabs-500m-arr/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/elevenlabs-500m-arr/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT The voice company said it closed another slice of Series D, with institutional and creator investors, after crossing $500 million in annual recurring revenue. It points to enterprise voice agents more than hobby narration. This is a voice tool story, not a lab LLM release. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/claude-watermark/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/claude-watermark/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT The lab published a Q&A: Claude still samples words at random, but the randomness now comes from a secret key. The change is framed as EU AI Act compliance and, Anthropic says, does not change quality, speed, or price. It does not prove human authorship and does not detect other models. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/grok-copilot/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/grok-copilot/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT GitHub started rolling Grok 4.6 into the Copilot model picker, including VS Code, the CLI, and the cloud agent. Business and Enterprise admins must flip a policy that is off by default. This is GitHub Copilot, not Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-37-flash/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gemini-37-flash/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Google shipped 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6, with intro pricing at half of 3.6 through the end of 2026. The pitch is coding, agents, and dense documents, including an update to Gemini Spark. This is not the Gemini crypto exchange. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/grok-46/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/grok-46/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT Grok 4.6 is aimed at work that lasts many steps: research, code, and finished artifacts. It is in the API and partner catalogs, starting at $2 per million input tokens and $6 output. The first week included 2× usage in Cursor and Grok Build. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/n8n-fair-code/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/n8n-fair-code/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT n8n still sells fair-code automation with a self-host path plus a managed cloud. That is the split versus Make and Zapier when data control matters. Zapier has no public individual affiliate program; n8n and Make do. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/claude-opus-5/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/claude-opus-5/ Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMT Anthropic released Opus 5 as the Max default and the strongest Pro model, at $5/$25 per million tokens. It is sold as better at coding, agents, and checking its own work without jumping to Fable pricing. The lab has no public individual affiliate program. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/synthesia-avatars/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/synthesia-avatars/ Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT Synthesia still sells virtual-presenter video for training and explainers without a film crew. It is not Google’s or OpenAI’s video model, and it is not HeyGen — which we do not CTA on money pages because of program rules. See the video guide for the rest of the set. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gpt-56-family/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/gpt-56-family/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMT OpenAI put the 5.6 family into ChatGPT, Codex, and the API. Sol is the flagship, Terra the balanced tier, Luna the cheap fast one, plus an ultra mode that splits work across agents. There is no affiliate link on this lab. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/surfer-content-editor/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/surfer-content-editor/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT Surfer still sells an on-page editor that scores topic coverage as you draft, unlike research suites such as Semrush. Hebrew teams should check language support per project rather than assume machine translation. This is not a lab LLM story. https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/claude-sonnet-5/ https://shots.bananamuncher.org/en/u/claude-sonnet-5/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT In late June Anthropic put Sonnet 5 out as the scaled coding-and-agents model, before Opus 5. It is the middle tier, not the flagship. The company’s own line is still the shortest description of the job they wanted this row to do.