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DOE Explains...Artificial Intelligence - Department of Energy (.gov)

DOE Explains...Artificial Intelligence  Department of Energy (.gov)

Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API:  background tasks, remote MCP and more
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Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more

We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.

The House’s top progressive thinks Democrats are failing on AI - Politico
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The House’s top progressive thinks Democrats are failing on AI - Politico

The House’s top progressive thinks Democrats are failing on AI  Politico

An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise

Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.

GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
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GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
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Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code migrations — the kind of automation that enterprises are increasingly turning to AI companies to provide.

The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
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The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.

3 ways this coffee shop is growing with Gemini
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3 ways this coffee shop is growing with Gemini

Small businesses like coffee shops can use Gemini to save time on graphic design, email marketing and sales forecasting.

The Smartest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Investment Moves to Make With $5,000 in July - Yahoo Finance
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The Smartest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Investment Moves to Make With $5,000 in July - Yahoo Finance

The Smartest Artificial Intelligence (AI) Investment Moves to Make With $5,000 in July  Yahoo Finance

How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026
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How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026

Learn how Googlers used AI to produce Google I/O 2026.

GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
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GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500. Delangue has seen the same story play out again and again: companies start […]

OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6

OpenAI's latest family of models promises improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

Researchers testing AI get skin diagnosis without going to the dermatologist - Yahoo
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Researchers testing AI get skin diagnosis without going to the dermatologist - Yahoo

Researchers testing AI get skin diagnosis without going to the dermatologist  Yahoo

Inside Genebench-Pro
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Inside Genebench-Pro

5 ways Google Search can level up your thrift and vintage shopping
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5 ways Google Search can level up your thrift and vintage shopping

Uncover second-hand scores with AI tools in Google Search and Shopping.

5 ways to learn with study notebooks in the Gemini app
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5 ways to learn with study notebooks in the Gemini app

Study notebooks is a new space in the Gemini app that serves as an interactive learning tool tailored to any student's goals.

New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions.
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New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions.

Research in “Nature” shows our conversational AI system matches primary care physicians in complex disease management.

Zapier vs. ChatGPT: When to use each (or both) [2026]
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Zapier vs. ChatGPT: When to use each (or both) [2026]

Comparing ChatGPT and Zapier might seem like comparing AI apples to automated oranges. But over the last couple of years, both platforms have picked up new agentic AI features, and now they share a lot of capabilities—and they combine into a delightful AI automation fruit juice. I've been using both tools every day for over three years, so I'm very keyed into the differences between the two, where each one shines, and how to run them together in ways that cut your token spend and make it safer f

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Our Chicago: Artificial intelligence in our everyday lives - ABC7 Chicago

Our Chicago: Artificial intelligence in our everyday lives  ABC7 Chicago

The 6 best MuleSoft alternatives in 2026
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The 6 best MuleSoft alternatives in 2026

My uncle bought himself some farmland and found a tractor guy. Not a general mechanic; a rural Einstein who has the knowledge, parts, and patience to service a tractor that predates the metric system. Every time that piece of metal makes a weird noise or just won't work right, it's off to the guy, where it will return (after a few weeks and a few hundred dollars later) good-as-new. MuleSoft is the tractor guy. It's a Salesforce-owned integration and API platform that's excellent for working with

OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households

ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.

Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex
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Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex

See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human judgment central.

Our approach to government and national security partnerships
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Our approach to government and national security partnerships

Learn how OpenAI approaches government and national security partnerships, with principles for responsible AI use, democratic accountability, and public safety.

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug
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Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

Introducing GPT-Live
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Introducing GPT-Live

A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
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Introducing computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

A look at the built-in computer use tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.

A look inside my vibe coding portfolio
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A look inside my vibe coding portfolio

If you'd asked me a year ago whether I could turn my barely-there coding knowledge into fully functional apps, internal tools, and custom widgets without hiring a developer, I would've smiled politely and quietly choked on my LaCroix. But since early 2025, I've been vibe coding my way to actual tools. The code is minimal, the confidence is unearned, and the results are surprisingly functional. Here, I'll show you the apps I built, the tools I used to build them, and how they actually work—in the

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app
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Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.

Pipedream vs. Zapier: Which is best? [2026]
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Pipedream vs. Zapier: Which is best? [2026]

"Developer-friendly" sounds like a good thing, and for the most part it is. But there's also an unspoken subtext: "business-team-unfriendly." Automation tools that put developers first can offer greater flexibility and customization, but it often comes at the expense of usability for nontechnical users. If you're trying to scale AI and automation quickly across your organization, there's a real opportunity cost at play when only developers can build workflows and agents. Pipedream—which was acqu

Here’s how to make study notebooks in the Gemini app.
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Here’s how to make study notebooks in the Gemini app.

Studying for a test, but not sure where to start? Study notebooks, a new feature in the Gemini app, can help you get organized and learn more efficiently.Think of study …

Here's how Gemini can help you avoid jetlag.
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Here's how Gemini can help you avoid jetlag.

If you’ve got a faraway trip coming up, the Gemini app can help you avoid jetlag so you can make the most of your visit.Once you’ve given Gemini permission to access you…

10 top women in AI in 2026
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10 top women in AI in 2026

AI is changing our world, but the stories of who build it often get lost in the noise. Behind the headlines and hype, a group of women are solving AI’s fundamental challenges – despite working in an industry persisently impacted by gender inequality. Women make up just 22% of AI professionals worldwide and only 12% of AI researchers. In academic publishing, female researchers account for just 29% of first authors on AI papers, a number that hasn’t increased since the mid-2000s.  This is a story about ten leaders who have influenced AI despite the odds being stacked against them.  Their The post 10 top women in AI in 2026 appeared first on DailyAI.

MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI
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MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI

MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.

Meta Platforms Just Unveiled a Shocking New Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy - The Motley Fool
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Meta Platforms Just Unveiled a Shocking New Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy - The Motley Fool

Meta Platforms Just Unveiled a Shocking New Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy  The Motley Fool

Best Universities To Study AI in 2026
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Best Universities To Study AI in 2026

Artificial intelligence has made enormous strides in the past few years – with the introduction of a wide range of AI tools changing the landscape of how we assess data and operate within online spaces forever.  This page ranks the 50 best universities to study AI around the world, based on scope, prestige, and the level of AI-related research each institution has released. Career prospects in AI There is a huge demand for individuals with a high degree of skills in artificial intelligence and machine learning, making AI a potential lucrative career prospect with countless opportunities as AI continues to The post Best Universities To Study AI in 2026 appeared first on DailyAI.

How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI
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How Deutsche Telekom is rewiring telecommunications with AI

How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.

ChatGPT Is Making People Think They’re Gods and Their Families Are Terrified
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ChatGPT Is Making People Think They’re Gods and Their Families Are Terrified

ChatGPT, the popular AI chatbot from OpenAI, is unintentionally leading users into full-blown spiritual delusions, and families are sounding the alarm. On Reddit’s r/ChatGPT forum, a chilling thread titled “ChatGPT induced psychosis” is gaining traction. Users are reporting a disturbing pattern: their loved ones are convinced that ChatGPT is a divine being, a spiritual guru, or even a portal to God. Rolling Stone journalist Miles Klee spoke directly with affected individuals. One woman shared how her partner became obsessed after ChatGPT gave him cosmic nicknames like “spiral starchild” and claimed he was on a divine mission. He ultimately told her The post ChatGPT Is Making People Think They’re Gods and Their Families Are Terrified appeared first on DailyAI.

OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name - Futurism
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Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name - Futurism

Journalist Alarmed When He’s Fired, But Company Keeps Posting AI Slop Under His Name  Futurism

Our new community investments in Virginia support local jobs and expand energy affordability.
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Our new community investments in Virginia support local jobs and expand energy affordability.

We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in energy programs.

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required
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Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microsoft's Copilot in the burgeoning market for AI-powered productivity tools. "Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code," the company announced via its official Claude account on X. The feature arrives as a research preview available exclusively to Claude Max subscribers — Anthropic's power-user tier priced between $100 and $200 per month — through the macOS desktop application. For the past year, the industry narrative has focused on large language models that can write poetry or debug code. With Cowork, Anthropic is betting that the real enterprise value lies in an AI that can open a folder, read a messy pile of receipts, and generate a structured expense report without human hand-holding. How developers using a coding tool for vacation research inspired Anthropic's latest product The genesis of Cowork lies in Anthropic's recent success with the developer community. In late 2024, the company released Claude Code, a terminal-based tool that allowed software engineers to automate rote programming tasks. The tool was a hit, but Anthropic noticed a peculiar trend: users were forcing the coding tool to perform non-coding labor. According to Boris Cherny, an engineer at Anthropic, the company observed users deploying the developer tool for an unexpectedly diverse array of tasks. "Since we launched Claude Code, we saw people using it for all sorts of non-coding work: doing vacation research, building slide decks, cleaning up your email, cancelling subscriptions, recovering wedding photos from a hard drive, monitoring plant growth, controlling your oven," Cherny wrote on X. "These use cases are diverse and surprising — the reason is that the underlying Claude Agent is the best agent, and Opus 4.5 is the best model." Recognizing this shadow usage, Anthropic effectively stripped the command-line complexity from their developer tool to create a consumer-friendly interface. In its blog post announcing the feature, Anthropic explained that developers "quickly began using it for almost everything else," which "prompted us to build Cowork: a simpler way for anyone — not just developers — to work with Claude in the very same way." Inside the folder-based architecture that lets Claude read, edit, and create files on your computer Unlike a standard chat interface where a user pastes text for analysis, Cowork requires a different level of trust and access. Users designate a specific folder on their local machine that Claude can access. Within that sandbox, the AI agent can read existing files, modify them, or create entirely new ones. Anthropic offers several illustrative examples: reorganizing a cluttered downloads folder by sorting and intelligently renaming each file, generating a spreadsheet of expenses from a collection of receipt screenshots, or drafting a report from scattered notes across multiple documents. "In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder on your computer. Claude can then read, edit, or create files in that folder," the company explained on X. "Try it to create a spreadsheet from a pile of screenshots, or produce a first draft from scattered notes." The architecture relies on what is known as an "agentic loop." When a user assigns a task, the AI does not merely generate a text response. Instead, it formulates a plan, executes steps in parallel, checks its own work, and asks for clarification if it hits a roadblock. Users can queue multiple tasks and let Claude process them simultaneously — a workflow Anthropic describes as feeling "much less like a back-and-forth and much more like leaving messages for a coworker." The system is built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, meaning it shares the same underlying architecture as Claude Code. Anthropic notes that Cowork "can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks." The recursive loop where AI builds AI: Claude Code reportedly wrote much of Claude Cowork Perhaps the most remarkable detail surrounding Cowork's launch is the speed at which the tool was reportedly built — highlighting a recursive feedback loop where AI tools are being used to build better AI tools. During a livestream hosted by Dan Shipper, Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic employee, confirmed that the team built Cowork in approximately a week and a half. Alex Volkov, who covers AI developments, expressed surprise at the timeline: "Holy shit Anthropic built 'Cowork' in the last... week and a half?!" This prompted immediate speculation about how much of Cowork was itself built by Claude Code. Simon Smith, EVP of Generative AI at Klick Health, put it bluntly on X: "Claude Code wrote all of Claude Cowork. Can we all agree that we're in at least somewhat of a recursive improvement loop here?" The implication is profound: Anthropic's AI coding agent may have substantially contributed to building its own non-technical sibling product. If true, this is one of the most visible examples yet of AI systems being used to accelerate their own development and expansion — a strategy that could widen the gap between AI labs that successfully deploy their own agents internally and those that do not. Connectors, browser automation, and skills extend Cowork's reach beyond the local file system Cowork doesn't operate in isolation. The feature integrates with Anthropic's existing ecosystem of connectors — tools that link Claude to external information sources and services such as Asana, Notion, PayPal, and other supported partners. Users who have configured these connections in the standard Claude interface can leverage them within Cowork sessions. Additionally, Cowork can pair with Claude in Chrome, Anthropic's browser extension, to execute tasks requiring web access. This combination allows the agent to navigate websites, click buttons, fill forms, and extract information from the internet — all while operating from the desktop application. "Cowork includes a number of novel UX and safety features that we think make the product really special," Cherny explained, highlighting "a built-in VM [virtual machine] for isolation, out of the box support for browser automation, support for all your claude.ai data connectors, asking you for clarification when it's unsure." Anthropic has also introduced an initial set of "skills" specifically designed for Cowork that enhance Claude's ability to create documents, presentations, and other files. These build on the Skills for Claude framework the company announced in October, which provides specialized instruction sets Claude can load for particular types of tasks. Why Anthropic is warning users that its own AI agent could delete their files The transition from a chatbot that suggests edits to an agent that makes edits introduces significant risk. An AI that can organize files can, theoretically, delete them. In a notable display of transparency, Anthropic devoted considerable space in its announcement to warning users about Cowork's potential dangers — an unusual approach for a product launch. The company explicitly acknowledges that Claude "can take potentially destructive actions (such as deleting local files) if it's instructed to." Because Claude might occasionally misinterpret instructions, Anthropic urges users to provide "very clear guidance" about sensitive operations. More concerning is the risk of prompt injection attacks — a technique where malicious actors embed hidden instructions in content Claude might encounter online, potentially causing the agent to bypass safeguards or take harmful actions. "We've built sophisticated defenses against prompt injections," Anthropic wrote, "but agent safety — that is, the task of securing Claude's real-world actions — is still an active area of development in the industry." The company characterized these risks as inherent to the current state of AI agent technology rather than unique to Cowork. "These risks aren't new with Cowork, but it might be the first time you're using a more advanced tool that moves beyond a simple conversation," the announcement notes. Anthropic's desktop agent strategy sets up a direct challenge to Microsoft Copilot The launch of Cowork places Anthropic in direct competition with Microsoft, which has spent years attempting to integrate its Copilot AI into the fabric of the Windows operating system with mixed adoption results. However, Anthropic's approach differs in its isolation. By confining the agent to specific folders and requiring explicit connectors, they are attempting to strike a balance between the utility of an OS-level agent and the security of a sandboxed application. What distinguishes Anthropic's approach is its bottom-up evolution. Rather than designing an AI assistant and retrofitting agent capabilities, Anthropic built a powerful coding agent first — Claude Code — and is now abstracting its capabilities for broader audiences. This technical lineage may give Cowork more robust agentic behavior from the start. Claude Code has generated significant enthusiasm among developers since its initial launch as a command-line tool in late 2024. The company expanded access with a web interface in October 2025, followed by a Slack integration in December. Cowork is the next logical step: bringing the same agentic architecture to users who may never touch a terminal. Who can access Cowork now, and what's coming next for Windows and other platforms For now, Cowork remains exclusive to Claude Max subscribers using the macOS desktop application. Users on other subscription tiers — Free, Pro, Team, or Enterprise — can join a waitlist for future access. Anthropic has signaled clear intentions to expand the feature's reach. The blog post explicitly mentions plans to add cross-device sync and bring Cowork to Windows as the company learns from the research preview. Cherny set expectations appropriately, describing the product as "early and raw, similar to what Claude Code felt like when it first launched." To access Cowork, Max subscribers can download or update the Claude macOS app and click on "Cowork" in the sidebar. The real question facing enterprise AI adoption For technical decision-makers, the implications of Cowork extend beyond any single product launch. The bottleneck for AI adoption is shifting — no longer is model intelligence the limiting factor, but rather workflow integration and user trust. Anthropic's goal, as the company puts it, is to make working with Claude feel less like operating a tool and more like delegating to a colleague. Whether mainstream users are ready to hand over folder access to an AI that might misinterpret their instructions remains an open question. But the speed of Cowork's development — a major feature built in ten days, possibly by the company's own AI — previews a future where the capabilities of these systems compound faster than organizations can evaluate them. The chatbot has learned to use a file manager. What it learns to use next is anyone's guess.

The dark side of ‘artificial intelligence’: In conversation with Paul Tremblay - The Oxford Student
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The dark side of ‘artificial intelligence’: In conversation with Paul Tremblay - The Oxford Student

The dark side of ‘artificial intelligence’: In conversation with Paul Tremblay  The Oxford Student

Elon Musk Says He Was "Clearly Wrong" About Anthropic's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models. Here's Why That's Outstanding News for Amazon and Alphabet Investors. - The Motley Fool
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Elon Musk Says He Was "Clearly Wrong" About Anthropic's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models. Here's Why That's Outstanding News for Amazon and Alphabet Investors. - The Motley Fool

Elon Musk Says He Was "Clearly Wrong" About Anthropic's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Models. Here's Why That's Outstanding News for Amazon and Alphabet Investors.  The Motley Fool

GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
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GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.

Introducing GeneBench-Pro
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Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
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New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.