Google test annotation and background removal on Mixboard

Google’s Mixboard is evolving as a visual tool for structuring complex topics, with new features like background removal and image annotations in development, suggesting its role in advancing multimodal workflows across Google products.

🗞 #aitestkitchen

Now you can upload PDFs and Spreadsheets from your Google Drive as a source to NotebookLM.

Now in ✅
Soon out 👀

BREAKING 🚨: OpenAI is preparing to ship GPT-5.1 family with 3 new models:
- GPT-5.1
- GPT-5.1 Reasoning
- GPT-5.1 Pro

These traces appear in the code for Enterprise RBAC settings, and the release date is set to "November 24".

You can now test upcoming GPT-5.1 on OpenRouter

OpenAI is preparing to launch the GPT-5.1 model family, including GPT-5.1, GPT-5.1 Reasoning, and GPT-5.1 Pro, with an expected release by November 24. Early testing under the name Polaris Alpha suggests strong benchmark results.

🗞 #chatgpt

Microsoft prepares Copilot Shopping updates ahead of Black Friday

Microsoft is transforming Copilot into an AI-driven shopping hub, introducing features like tracked prices, order history, product insights, and review summaries—positioning it as a competitive alternative to Amazon and Google Shopping.

🗞 #microsoftcopilot

ERNIE-5.0-Preview-1022 from Baidu got a preliminary high ranking on LMArena and scored 1432 points.

Feels like the gap is getting very small 👀

BREAKING 🚨: Nano Banana 2 appeared to be accessible via Media IO in Preview. All the tests we have made so far confirm this.

This won't last long 👀

Early look at images generated by Nano Banana 2

Google is set to launch Nano Banana 2, a visual AI upgrade offering improved accuracy, broader resolution and aspect ratio support, and a multi-step correction loop. It still runs on Gemini 2.5 Flash, with a likely shift to Gemini 3 Pro later.

P.S. Open this post on the web to see all samples.

🗞 #gemini

Nano Banana 2 excels at text rendering, infographics, world knowledge, charts, i18n and instruction following.

Check a gallery of samples above ☝️

Users will be able to adjust the "level of details" in the upcoming Infographics feature for NotebookLM.

"Concise", "Standard", and "Detailed" options will be available.

LinkedIn is not ready for this 👀

xAI works on Grok Code Remote to rival OpenAI's Codex

xAI is hosting a hackathon on December 6–7, offering early access to unreleased Grok models and X APIs. The event hints at updates like Grok 4.1 or 4.2 and previews Grok Code Remote, a tool aligned with cloud-based code execution trends.

🗞 #grok