Launches, price changes and retirements that affect the tools in the directory — checked against the vendor’s own announcement, dated with the announcement date, sources listed.
Claude has a new Personal Finance hub that links your bank and card accounts through Plaid and answers money questions in plain language, from your own balances and transactions. Access is read-only — Claude cannot move, manage or invest your money, and it never sees your bank password.
Perplexity has launched Teammates — persistent AI agents that take ownership of ongoing work instead of waiting for one prompt at a time. Each teammate gets its own role, its own desktop and browser, and works inside Perplexity Computer using your projects, skills, memory and connected tools such as Slack, GitHub and Linear.
Google’s October recap leads with its two Gemini 4 models, then turns to Genie 4 — real-time interactive worlds with native audio — and a global, English-language rollout of SynthID Detector, so anyone can check whether an image, video or audio clip was made with AI.
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google’s strongest model for cybersecurity and long-horizon engineering, according to Google — ranked first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 59 — but most readers cannot use it yet: rollout starts with a subset of cyber defenders while safety guardrails are refined.
Eleven Realtime collapses the usual voice-agent chain — recognition, turn-taking, language model, speech — into two single models, v1 Mini and v1 Max. Each is a complete voice agent, according to ElevenLabs, covering more than 90 languages and the company’s library of more than 17,000 voices.
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