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Gemini Desktop Task Mode to Support Gemini Live and Computer Use Settings

Google’s Gemini desktop app now has a switch between Chat and Tasks, and trusted testers are starting to receive Gemini Task mode, the home of its computer use agent. Tasks carries a Gemini Live entry point, hinting at voice-controlled computer use on top of the new Gemini 3.8 Live model, and a new settings menu lets users choose allowed and disallowed apps. This article covers what TestingCatalog found, five weeks of computer use traces, the Drive backup and large-folder problem, Windows and Workspace admin controls, and what businesses should decide before rollout.

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Meta Prepares Muse for Messenger, Telegram and Signal

Meta is preparing its twelve-day-old Muse agent to work through messaging platforms beyond WhatsApp, with Messenger and Telegram visible in the current interface and an interface already designed to connect and manage those channels. Signal appears in the source article’s search title but nowhere in its body — a distinction every aggregator has flattened. This article separates the sourced claims from the inferred ones, sets out the Apptopia adoption figures that make distribution urgent, explains why the three platforms are not equivalent targets, and looks at the plaintext problem any messaging-layer agent inherits.

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Gemini 3.8 Slugs Appear on Cloud Quota Page and Grok 4.7 Forecasts

  • September 15, 2026
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TestingCatalog spotted Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Google Cloud’s console quotas page on 15 September 2026. We set out what a quota entry proves, where the model would sit in Google’s Live API lineup, how it compares with OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1, and what Musk’s posts and three prediction markets say about Grok 4.7.

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Anthropic Prepares Claude Money Personal Finance Feature for iOS App

  • September 14, 2026
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Leaked screenshots show a Money tab and a bank-linking onboarding screen in the Claude iOS app. We set out what the Claude Money leak confirms, what it does not, how it compares with ChatGPT Finances and Perplexity, the connectors that already bring finance data into Claude, and the privacy and US-only launch questions Anthropic still has to answer.

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Gemini Immersive View Appears in the Students Section

Gemini Immersive View is the feature Google has not announced, spotted this week sitting inside the Students section of the Gemini app as a clickable, image-based map of a subject that you can keep zooming into until you reach atoms. The sighting was published on 7 September 2026 by TestingCatalog, which reported that a new […]

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Google Gemini Desktop App to Add Obsidian Integration and Finder Support

TestingCatalog reported on 5 September 2026 that closed builds of the Gemini desktop app carry connections to Obsidian, a macOS Finder action that sends any folder straight to Gemini, and a new toggle splitting the app into Ask and Assign modes. This article covers exactly what was found, why an Obsidian vault is really just a folder, how the features fit Google’s four-month local-file rollout, and what teams should weigh before granting any assistant read access to a knowledge base.

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Claude iOS App Adds Usage Warning for Max Effort Mode

A TestingCatalog sighting on 1 September 2026 shows the Claude app for iOS displaying an explicit warning next to the Max effort option: it consumes 1.5x usage. This piece explains what the label says, how Claude’s five effort levels work, what a 1.5x multiplier does to five-hour and weekly usage limits on Pro, Max and Team plans, why Anthropic is printing the price on the dial now, how the approach compares with ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, and when Max effort is actually worth paying for.

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xAI Develops Library Support and File Filtering for Grok on iOS

TestingCatalog reports that xAI is developing Library support and file filtering for Grok on iOS, a dedicated section of the mobile app that gathers every uploaded document and every image or video generated with Grok Imagine, with filters that narrow the list by file type. This analysis covers what has been spotted so far, how a Grok Library extends the Files tab and Workspaces that xAI has been building on the web since 2025, how it compares with the ChatGPT Image Library and Claude Projects, what file filtering on a phone would actually do, and what business users should check before a mobile file hub lands on staff devices.

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Claude Hub Enters Early Access and Managed Projects Spotted on Mobile

App teardowns shared on 1 September 2026 show Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Hub feature transitioning from an internal flag to Early Access, while an empty tile for Managed Projects appears in the Claude mobile app’s layout code. This piece reconstructs the six-week trail of sightings, explains what Claude Hub and Managed Projects are, compares Anthropic’s orchestration bet with ChatGPT Projects and Gemini AI Rooms, reads the pricing-page clues about who gets access first, and sets out what businesses should prepare before agent orchestration ships.

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