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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with GPT-6 Astra
Microsoft brings Grok models into Copilot for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
ElevenLabs releases Music v2.5 with lossless downloads on every plan
Use GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 together with one real plugin
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AI AGENTS
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a ChatGPT Work experience that pairs GPT-6 Astra with built-in financial data to produce research, financial models, and client-ready materials.
Premium data from Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase is indexed and hosted by OpenAI, with granular citations so every figure traces back to its source.
GPT-6 Astra reads figures, tables, and notes across financial documents and periods, then turns the analysis into spreadsheets, presentations, charts, and written reports.
Admins publish Excel, Word, and PowerPoint templates plus firm style guides, so pitchbooks and valuation models come out in the house format, with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners.
An analyst can pull earnings data, run a valuation, and build the client deck inside one workspace, then hand it over without rebuilding the formatting. It starts with investment banking and equity research, and it is only available to eligible institutions through OpenAI sales, so this one is for finance teams to request access, not a Plus toggle.
AI TOOLS
Microsoft brought Grok models from SpaceXAI into Copilot, adding a third model family for Frontier program customers across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on both web and desktop.
Pick Grok from Copilot's model selector inside any of the three apps and it takes over that app's drafting, formula, or slide work in place.
The same prompt can run on Grok, an OpenAI model, or an Anthropic model without switching apps or copying content out, so you compare outputs on the live file.
Access comes through the Microsoft Frontier program once an admin turns the Grok setting on, with Microsoft tracking usage before expanding it to more Copilot surfaces.
Copilot inside Office turns into a model picker. If Grok drafts your memo better or handles a Excel formula more cleanly, you switch to it in the same window without leaving the file. Frontier customers get to test that first, and their usage decides how far the rollout goes.
AI MODELS
ElevenLabs released Music v2.5, the default model for prompted and reference generation in ElevenMusic, producing richer melodies, instruments that sound closer to a live take, and deeper arrangements built for commercial use.
In a blind test across 47,885 pairs, listeners preferred the v2.5 take most of the time, with the widest gap in vocal-led and acoustic-heavy genres like R&B, rock, and orchestral.
Every track you make in ElevenMusic is yours on every plan. Free gets five lossless downloads a day with commercial use if you credit ElevenMusic, Pro gets 400 per month.
Ownership and commercial-use permissions lock in when you generate a track, so a later cancel or downgrade doesn't change them.
You can score a reel, an ad, or a YouTube intro on the Free plan, download a lossless file, and publish it with a credit line, no paid tier required. For anyone building audio into an app, the API route means the same model runs inside your product.
HOW TO AI
Orchestration means splitting a task across models instead of asking one to do everything. Astrable, a Codex plugin, sets this up with three roles. Astra is the brain, it plans and scopes the task. Fable 5.1 is the hands, it builds. Astra verifies the result before anything's accepted.
Step 1: Install Astrable
Confirm the prerequisites: Node.js 24 or newer, Codex with plugin support and GPT-6 Astra available, and Claude Code installed and logged into your Claude.ai subscription.
claude auth login
codex plugin marketplace add DannyMac180/astrable --ref main
codex plugin add astrable@astrableStep 2: Let Astra plan, Fable build
Start a fresh Codex task and select GPT-6 Astra as the model.
$astrable:delegate Fix the off-by-one in src/paginate.ts so the last page is included. Only paginate.ts may change. Run npm test and report the result.
Step 3: Talk to the brain while the hands work
The Codex conversation is the interface, no separate dashboard.
Why did it touch the test file?What Astra quotes from Claude is Claude's own claim. A tool result in the feed means a tool ran, not that the work is correct.
Step 4: Let Astra verify before you trust it
Once the run finishes, Astra records its own check, separate from anything Claude claims about its own work.
Show me the verification receipt for this run
P.S. You can access all the AI trainings (including the full version of this one), prompts and workflows if you upgrade.
Hermes Agent added OpenRouter as a built-in backend for video_generate, pulling its live catalog of models like Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, and Kling 3 through one connection, with reference images guiding subject and look and controls adapting per model.
OpenAI updated Pets in the ChatGPT desktop app, so the companion that tracks your chats while you're away can also start a new chat on click, with a new Mini option giving the same shortcuts and updates in less screen space.
Alibaba Qwen brought Qwen3.8-27B to Cerebras, running the dense open-weight model at roughly 1,500 tokens per second with text and image input, tool calling, and structured outputs at $0.99 per million input tokens.
🎬 Google Vids: can turn a Google Slides deck into a full video pitch, drafting the script and adding an AI voiceover for you.
💻 Firecrawl: added its Developer Index to the Grok Build plugin, so Grok searches 70M+ repos, docs, and issues while it codes.
🎨 Higgsfield: added AI Motion Designer, a ChatGPT plugin that writes expressions and builds titles and logo reveals inside After Effects.
✂️ invideo: its agent editor can handle match cuts, beat sync, grid layouts, radius blur, and sound effects while you keep the creative calls.
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