AI Field Notes: Google, Plans, and more

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queries slow, dashboards lag, and adding another database starts to feel inevitable.

Grok 4.7 offers the same price and speed as Grok 4.6, but with a significant jump in capabilities. The lab says the new model can work longer on challenging tasks, check its own work more carefully, and create better documents and presentations. It’s available now through Grok Build, Cursor, or the API.

Opus 5.5 offers Fable-level performance, costs 40% less than Opus 5, and writes more naturally, addressing a common complaint with recent Claude models. It’s available now across Claude tools. To accompany the launch, the lab has increased five-hour usage limits on paid plans and added a rate limit reset you can use at

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called the incident “obviously unacceptable,” especially since the attack occurred in June but OpenAI didn’t disclose it until September. Albanese says there will be “legal consequences,” but few details have emerged about what kind of data was accessed. Watch the Prime Minister’s update

Google’s Project Suncatcher, announced last year, aims to scale AI infrastructure using orbital data centers that capture near 24/7 solar energy. On October 1st, Google is launching its first test: a refrigerator-sized satellite holding four Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to see how they perform in space. Learn how the