Curator-turned-publisher Pantaloon has unleashed a subscription service that fans of indie games might be interested in digging into. The Playbill is a take on Xbox Game Pass, albeit one that focuses on "bold and bizarre" titles. The initial lineup features third-party games such as Buckshot Roulette, Silt, Ex Sanguis and Cabin Factory. Those sit alongside Pantaloon's own games: Sub-Verge, Occlude, It Takes a War, Boxroom, Rolla and the delightful music creation sim Offbeat. Much like Game Pass offers first-party Xbox titles (save for new Call of Duty offerings) to subscribers on day one, the Playbill will gain all of Pantaloon's own games as soon as they're released.

Anthropic is late to the party, but as of today the company has a personal agent to match the likes of Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. As part of a new "research" preview, the company on Wednesday announced Claude Duet. "It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working even when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf," Anthropic says of Duet. For now, you'll need to join a waitlist that's only open to Claude subscribers in the US to try the new tool. Like OpenAI, Anthropic is billing Duet as a proactive agent.

Gmail's search can be frustrating and basic, but Google is finally smartening it up for AI plan subscribers with the release of Gmail Live. Now out of beta after being announced at Google I/O last month, the AI feature allows you to search your inbox using conversational voice commands. It's similar to live voice chats with the Gemini chatbot, but customized for popular apps like Gmail, Docs and Drive, with each getting its own version of the functionality. The feature, Google says, allows you to find details in buried in emails without digging through endless threads. "Use conversational search to find information just by asking things like, 'What's my flight's gate number?' or'What's going on at my kid's school this week?' and Gmail Live will scan your inbox and give you answers quickly," Google explains.

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After spending more than a year and tens of billions of dollars rebuilding its AI efforts, Meta says that it has caught up with the frontier. The company introduced its two latest AI models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, both of which represent "a major leap toward personal superintelligence." According to Meta, the models are particularly adept at navigating legal, financial and health-related tasks, and are able to deliver "frontier coding performance." Both models also add "active memory" and "active focus," which Meta says will help people accomplish more over long periods of time. That's notable because Meta says it plans to bring Wonder to its personal agent Muse, beginning with paid subscribers.

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