- Best-in-class reasoning and writing
- Strong ecosystem and integrations
- Advanced multimodal capabilities
Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude is gaining new features in its Cowork desktop application. Users can now set up scheduled tasks that Claude will execute automatically at specified times, such as a morning briefing, weekly spreadsheet updates, or Friday presentations for the team
With OpenClaw, system prompts and configurations can be extracted with little effort. In the case of Moltbook, the entire database—including API keys—has reportedly been exposed on the open internet.
Anthropic has rolled out plugin support for Cowork, enabling users to tailor the Claude AI assistant to specific professional roles. Plugins allow skills, data integrations, commands, and sub-agents to be packaged together, effectively turning Claude into a domain specialist for sales, legal, finance, and other fields.
AI search startup Perplexity has signed a $750 million contract with Microsoft to use its Azure cloud services, Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter. The three-year deal gives Perplexity access to a range of AI models through Microsoft’s Foundry program, including systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI
Apple has acquired Israeli startup Q.ai, which develops technology for reading facial movements and interpreting silent or near-silent communication, Bloomberg reports, according to AI Wire Media.
Sora, OpenAI’s AI video generator, is losing momentum after a rapid early surge. According to Appfigures, both downloads and overall popularity are declining.
Video hosting platform YouTube has removed several channels featuring AI-generated content, including some of the segment’s largest players, The Verge reports.
Google DeepMind has made Project Genie publicly accessible. The experimental prototype, based on the world model Genie 3 unveiled in August, is now available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US (18+). The web app lets users generate interactive worlds from text or images and explore them in real time, with the system generating what lies ahead as you move.
OpenAI is reportedly discontinuing the “ChatGPT Agent” introduced about six months ago — a product that never really made much sense to begin with. According to The Information, the tool peaked at launch with four million weekly active paying users, representing about 11% of the 35 million paying users at the time. Just a few months later, usage fell below one million. Users apparently did not understand what to do with the product, struggled to find it, or were discouraged by issues related to speed, reliability, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft’s massive bet on AI is consuming billions, but the return on investment remains unclear — and the stock market is reacting accordingly.