AI Radar | November 6, 2026
Google Vids now makes free videos with Omni 1.2 Flash, and the same model's per-second price drops 30% in the Gemini API. ChatGPT now makes animated GIFs and will merge ChatGPT and Codex usage limits in December. Uber reports just 4 rides booked by AI agents in its busiest week.
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Google Vids makes free videos with its new model
Google Vids now runs on the Omni 1.2 Flash model. Anyone with a free Google account or Workspace can make videos at no cost, up to a monthly limit. New features include one-shot product promos, scenes built from reference images where characters and settings stay consistent, and more natural voice narration. You can start at vids.new.
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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash cuts its per-second video price by 30%
Google launched the model in the Gemini API and on Google Cloud. Generated video goes from 10 to 15 seconds, and the price drops to $0.07 per second at 720p. You can draft at 360p or 720p and upscale to 4K. Adobe, Figma Weave and Monks already build it into their workflows.
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ChatGPT now makes animated GIFs
OpenAI is rolling the feature out to all users on web, desktop and mobile, powered by its new Images 2.6 model. You can make a GIF from a text prompt or a photo you upload, adjust the speed, edit single frames and share it. Before, ChatGPT couldn't make a GIF in one step. If you have product photos, try turning one into a GIF.
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Starting in December, ChatGPT and Codex share one usage limit
The change covers the Plus, Pro and Business plans. Usage is measured in tokens, and advanced models and complex tasks use more. Instant chat doesn't count against the limit. You can see your combined usage in Settings → Usage. If you hit the cap, you can wait for the reset, upgrade your plan or buy credits.
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Archon edits your raw footage and hands back a finished video in minutes
Selendis launched Archon, a video model built by musician Steve Aoki and industry experts. Its personal editors learn each creator's style from their choices in the editor, their past videos and the reference videos you give them. The company says it gets better with every edit. Early access includes three free months.
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Hume AI launches a tool that reads emotions and sounds in audio
It works on the audio itself, not the transcript, and answers the questions you set with probabilities, no model retraining needed. Uses it mentions include spotting a frustrated caller, flagging AI-generated voices and searching 40,000 recordings in minutes. Hume says it matches a human panel's judgment 70.7% of the time. If you take customer calls, it's worth checking whether it could flag upset callers for you.
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Grok Bot cuts usage limits over costs that ran too high
Elon Musk confirmed SpaceX lowered Grok Bot's usage limits because costs were unsustainably high compared to revenue. Over Halloween weekend, some users saw their weekly limit used up overnight without touching it, with usage jumping from 50% to 100%. If your team uses Grok Bot, check how much of the limit is left.
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Claude launches Personal Finance so you can ask about your bank accounts
Anthropic launched this preview this week for Pro, Max and Ultra plans in the United States. You link bank accounts and cards through Plaid and ask in plain English about your spending, balances and transactions. Access is read-only, so Claude can't move or invest money. Conversations there aren't used to train models, and you can unlink your accounts anytime.
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Uber: just 4 rides booked by AI agents in its busiest week
On its Q3 earnings call, Uber said that during Halloween week only 4 rides were booked through AI agents, out of about 320 million rides and orders. Uber Eats saw 500 orders. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said booking a ride in the app takes about 50 seconds and questioned how much time an agent really saves. DoorDash also reported only a few hundred orders placed by agents.
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Grok Bot's Data Bot answers data questions without waiting on a data scientist
SpaceXSI's data science team built Data Bot, a shared bot any employee can use to query the data warehouse, run analysis and get results. It learns from a shared memory and can join Slack channels to post updates on its own. According to the report, last week it handled about 70 hours of work that would have landed on the data team.
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OpenAI shows how it uses Astra and Codex to design physical products
A test device called TamaGPT was designed almost entirely by Astra in under a week and prototyped in a month. Chip Ganassi Racing and Mazda use the tools, the first for CAD design conversion and the second for aerodynamics simulation.
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Grok can now make phone calls
xAI announced on the official Grok Bot account on X that its assistant can now make calls. That takes it from text-only to talking with people by phone.
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