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xAI adds voice to Grok Bot across desktop and mobile apps
OpenAI introduces Astra for Law, GPT-6 Astra tuned for legal work
Understand MCP properly, then connect four real tools in one sitting
4 new AI tools worth trying today
TOGETHER WITH TEMPLAFY
Most companies now run more than one AI assistant: marketing in ChatGPT, product in Claude, finance in Microsoft Copilot. Each can draft a deck, and none of them knows your template. Templafy's new connector fixes that: admins set brand, templates and rules once in Templafy, and every assistant builds against the same approved content.
Add Templafy MCP to ChatGPT, Claude or Microsoft Copilot and:
Set brand and template rules once instead of rebuilding them inside every assistant
Get the same on-brand output no matter which assistant the document started in
Apply approved visuals, disclaimers and legal language automatically
Get started with the Templafy MCP. Add it ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot.
AI AGENTS
xAI added voice to Grok Bot, its always-on agent app, with the feature rolling out across desktop and mobile over the next couple of days for SuperGrok Plus, Heavy, and Cursor plans.
Users speak to a Bot and hear it answer aloud, with the mode powered by Grok Voice, the same real-time engine behind voice in the main Grok app.
Voice works against the same Bots, conversations, routines, and connectors as text, so a spoken request can kick off a browser task or research run that continues in the cloud.
Bots keep surfacing approval requests and results as notifications, so a hands-free session on the phone can still pause for a decision before the agent acts.
Talking to an agent while walking changes how often you reach for it. You can brief a Bot on the way to a meeting, let it run the task in the cloud, and get the result as a notification. If you are on SuperGrok or Cursor, check for the mic in the app.
AI MODELS
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law, a GPT-6 Astra configuration for law firms and legal technology companies, offered first to selected firms through Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex, with API access to follow.
The model appears as GPT-6 Astra Law in the picker and pairs the base model with instructions for legal analysis and writing plus settings tuned for thorough work.
A new Legal Search Index covers U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, court rules, and administrative decisions across 230 million URLs, finding 24 percent more reference cases than web search alone.
OpenAI also shipped 26 partner plugins from Thomson Reuters, Harvey, Legora, and iManage, plus 47 community plugins, and firms such as Sullivan & Cromwell and Cooley built their own tools on top.
This is OpenAI's finance playbook applied to law: a tuned model, a proprietary search index, and a plugin ecosystem, sold to firms first. If you work in legal, it arrives through your firm or through Harvey and Legora, not your personal ChatGPT plan. API access will open it to anyone building legal tools.
HOW TO AI
Before USB, every device needed its own cable. MCP is the same idea for AI, one standard way for Claude to plug into a tool instead of every tool needing its own custom code.
Step 0: Get to know MCP
MCP has three roles: the host is the app you're using, the client manages one connection to one server, and the server exposes what it can do through tools, resources, and prompts. Three rules matter more than which servers you pick: don't connect more than 5 to 7, treat every server like code from a stranger, and never point a connection at a production database.
Step 1: Connect your files
Claude Desktop doesn't have file access built in on its own.
{
"mcpServers": {
"filesystem": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "/Users/yourname/Documents"]
}
}
}Add this to your config file, quit Claude Desktop completely, and reopen it.
Look in my Documents folder and tell me which files haven't been touched in over six monthsStep 2: Connect Context7
Ask Claude about a library without it, and it may confidently describe a function that never existed. Context7 pulls current documentation instead.
claude mcp add context7 -- npx -y @upstash/context7-mcp
Step 3: Connect your apps
GitHub and Notion are the same underlying move, connecting Claude Code to something over the web. Both use claude mcp add --transport http, and both come down to one choice: sign in with OAuth, or hand over a token you generate yourself.
claude mcp add --transport http github https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_GITHUB_PAT"Generate a fine-grained token at github.com/settings/tokens, not a classic one, so access stays limited to specific repositories. Notion uses the same command shape, but approves through a login screen instead:
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user notion https://mcp.notion.com/mcp
Step 4: Audit the connections
With four connections active, still under the 5-to-7 ceiling, this is the moment to check them together.
Show me exactly which folders, repos, and Notion pages are currently connected, and flag if any of them has broader access than it needsStep 5: Give it a task
The point of connecting all four isn't checking each one works alone, it's asking for something that needs more than one at the same time.
Look at [a repo you connected in Step 3] for any open issues mentioning outdated dependencies, check Context7 for the current recommended versions, and add a note to [a page you connected in Step 3] summarizing what needs updatingP.S. You can access all the AI courses and trainings (including the full version of this one), prompts and workflows if you upgrade.
Anthropic launched Projects in Claude Code, where a single conversation describes the work and Claude directs parallel threads that keep running after the laptop closes, in beta for select Pro and Max users with wider access to follow.
Meta released Muse for Mac, bringing its personal agent onto the desktop where it can organize the downloads folder, track down a lost file, or summarize messages and notes, acting only with explicit permission and with more actions promised.
Okara released AI CMO v3, which plans, writes, schedules, and measures social content from a single dashboard, turning the tool into an end-to-end marketing operator for small teams without a dedicated social manager.
🎬 Krea: added a video editor to Krea Agent, so generated clips can be arranged into scenes, extended, and given audio in one timeline.
🧠 LM Studio: Bionic agent gained Introspection, searching its own session history across compactions, plus @ mentions to pull other sessions into the composer.
⚡ Replicate: added P-Video-2-Pro from Pruna, built on MiniMax H3, generating 5-second 480p or 720p video in seconds at half price this week from $0.01 per second.
🎞️ Runway: added Enhance Frame Rate, a frame interpolation model that converts footage to 25, 30, 48, 60, or 120 fps, plus NTSC's 59.94 standard.
THAT’S IT FOR TODAY
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- Dr. Alvaro Cintas
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