Katana is an editing skill for Claude that rebuilds reference videos using up to five uploaded photos via Higgsfield MCP. The generated MP4 retains the reference video's duration, aspect ratio, and frame rate.
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Odyssey has launched a public research preview of Odyssey-3, which generates interactive environments from text and simulates physical processes. According to its benchmark submission, the base model has 14 billion parameters, and a free online demo is available via Odyssey-3 Flash.
Free Gemini users will now have prompts automatically routed, mostly to Flash-Lite, with deeper-reasoning prompts possibly going to Flash or Pro. Google is also rolling out three new thinking effort levels for all subscribers.
Anthropic has released Claude Dashboards and Motion into beta, enabling Claude to build self-updating data dashboards and code-based animated explainers.
Claude is introducing direct editing for Google Workspace via a sidebar add-on and file connectors, both currently in public beta. The add-on is available across all paid Claude plans and shows each change on an approval card by default.
Google has started rolling out Skills globally in Gemini chat, letting users save custom instructions and invoke them with a slash. The feature is set to replace Gems, which will be migrated automatically.
