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AIand files from those apps can also be opened within Claude. In Google Workspace, Claude appears in a sidebar next to the open file, reads its contents, and edits it in place, with each edit available for user approval before it is applied.

Why it matters: The source describes Claude working within Google Workspace files and approving edits, a direct change to how users in those apps can collaborate with the model.

AIGoogle announces Nano Banana 2.1, an upgraded image model that outperforms its previous versions across the board. The company says it brings notable improvements in visual design, mask-based editing, subject consistency, and more natural-looking imagery. It is available now in the Gemini app and Google AI Studio.

AIPerplexity says its open-weights multimodal decision model pplx-decider-v1.1-27b is now available and scores highest on Hugging Face's new Decision Index 0.3 benchmark. The model costs $0.02 per million input tokens, half the price of v1.

AIMerve Noyan has released a slide deck on running AI locally, covering prefill versus decode, MoE versus dense models, VRAM versus unified memory, quantization, and speculative decoding. The deck is built around llama.cpp and is free to reuse with attribution.

AIGoogle DeepMind's Nano Banana 2.1, Google's latest image generation and editing model, is now available on Design Arena. The model brings improvements in visual design, mask-based editing, and subject consistency, aiming to produce more natural-looking images with greater control across editing workflows.

AIGrok can turn a pasted article or PDF into a podcast where two hosts discuss the content. Each script line is voiced as soon as it is written, so playback begins before the full script is finished. The example code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AIThe xai-cookbook's x-sentiment-tracker lets users pick a topic, then has Grok run one X search per day over the last 10 days and score each post from -1 to +1. The dashboard displays the sentiment split, day-by-day movement, and the posts behind each score.

AIThe xai-cookbook example uses Grok to generate a Tailwind React component from a dropped-in screenshot. The page then screenshots its own render, overlays it on the original, and feeds the mismatches back so Grok can refine the layout, raising the match from 60% to 77% in one run.

AIA pipeline built with Grok takes a single product photo and produces an eight-second vertical ad, writing the brief, generating three scenes, selecting the best one, animating it, and adding a voiceover. Each run costs about $1.35, and the code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AIxAI's storyboard-to-film example uses grok-4.7 to plan four shots from a one-line premise, then Grok Imagine draws and animates each one with text-to-speech narration. Every shot is an edit of the first keyframe, which keeps the main character consistent across scenes. The code is available in the xai-cookbook repository on GitHub.

AICursor has added five apps to its cookbook, all built on the new SpaceXAI TypeScript SDK. The apps cover premise-to-short-film, picture-to-video ads, screenshot-to-React-component, X posts-to-sentiment dashboard, and link-to-podcast conversion. Demos and code are available in the post.

AIAnthropic's Claude Startup Stack combines offers from companies building with Claude, including Linear, Lovable, ElevenLabs, Granola, and Hex. Startups get discounts and credits worth up to $45,000 on tools spanning sales, design, data engineering, and more.

AIIn a Microsoft Research Podcast episode, Jennifer Neville discusses her nonlinear route into computer science and her push for more practical evaluations of today's AI systems. The post offers little beyond this framing, so no specific models, benchmarks, or results are mentioned.

AIARC Prize reports that Grok 4.7's reasoning-token usage correlates with its ARC-AGI-2 public scores. The low setting averaged about 10k tokens per test-pair attempt and scored 25%, while medium through xhigh used 86k to 120k tokens and scored 57.5% to 60%. ARC Prize suggests the lower token usage may help explain the low setting's lower score.

AIOn ARC-AGI-2, Grok 4.7's best score is 61.4% at $2.01 per task, down from Grok 4.6's 67.1% at $0.76 per task. The post notes cost per task rose 166% despite identical input and output token pricing.

AIGrok 4.7 used more reasoning tokens on average than Grok 4.6 on ARC-AGI-2 semi-private tasks at medium, high, and xhigh reasoning levels, raising its cost per task. Per test-pair attempt, medium used 136% more tokens, high 125% more, and xhigh 173% more, while low used 27% fewer. A chart compares the two models at xhigh on the 20 public tasks where Grok 4.7 increased token use the most.

AISpaceXAI's Grok 4.7 scored 90.2% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.64 per task, higher than Grok 4.6, according to ARC Prize. It reached 61.4% on ARC-AGI-2 at $2.01 per task and 1.8% on ARC-AGI-3 under the standard harness ($2.7k), or 10.0% with the provider adapter harness ($4.8k), both lower than Grok 4.6 on those two benchmarks.

AIGoogle's EmbeddingGemma 2 is an open embeddings model for on-device use that covers code, image, video, audio, and text. It comes in modular sizes from 270M text/code to 740M full multimodal, supports Matryoshka truncation down to 128 dimensions, and reports a 14% gain on MTEB Code over v1 under an Apache 2.0 license. The author's post highlights the release and a Hugging Face demo, while the benchmark table compares it with several models.

AIKrea has made Nano Banana 2.1 available on its platform, promising better prompt understanding, sharper edits, and stronger subject consistency. The model now supports generations up to 4K resolution.

AIMicrosoft highlights AT&T data scientist Natalie Gilbert, who applies skepticism to AI by examining edge cases and making informed decisions rather than accepting AI outputs blindly. The post frames questioning as the basis for trustworthy AI, linking to a Microsoft feature titled "See you in the work."