DuckDuckGo saw a significant spike in US app installs after Google unveiled a sweeping AI-focused search overhaul at its I/O conference.
By Chris Borden AI search engine Perplexity has introduced two new text-embedding models that aim to match or outperform Google’s and Alibaba’s offerings while using only a fraction of the usual memory footprint. Both models are open source.
By Chris Borden 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
By Alex Rowland Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reaffirmed the company’s position in a public statement
By Chris Borden Anthropic has softened a key safety policy, saying it needs to stay competitive. At the same time, the company is under pressure from the Pentagon, which is demanding permission to use AI for surveillance of U.S. citizens and for creating autonomous weapons.
By Daniel Mercer Anthropic is expanding Claude’s agentic office capabilities, allowing the model to switch autonomously between Excel and PowerPoint — for example, running an analysis in a spreadsheet and directly turning the results into a presentation. At the same time, Anthropic is extending Cowork for Enterprise customers with private plugin marketplaces, enabling administrators to curate and distribute custom plugin collections to specific teams. These plugins turn Claude into specialized AI agents for different departments, with new templates covering HR, design, engineering, finance, and wealth management.
By Alex Rowland Chinese AI startup Deepseek has reportedly trained its latest AI model on Nvidia’s most powerful Blackwell chips, despite U.S. export restrictions. Reuters cites a senior official from the Trump administration, who said the model is expected to be released as early as next week. Rumors of chip smuggling involving Deepseek had already surfaced late last year.
By Chris Borden OpenAI has announced two API updates aimed at developers. The new model gpt-realtime-1.5 for the Realtime API is designed to handle voice commands more reliably. According to OpenAI’s internal tests, transcription accuracy for numbers and letters improved by more than 10%, performance on logical audio tasks increased by 5%, and instruction-following accuracy rose by 7%. The underlying audio model has also been updated to version 1.5.
By Alex Rowland Meta and AMD have signed a multi-year partnership covering up to six gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with a clear focus on inference workloads. The deal also includes an unusual equity component and is designed to reduce Meta’s dependence on a single chip supplier.
By Chris Borden Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue assigned the OpenClaw AI agent to clean up her overloaded inbox by deciding what to delete and what to archive. Instead, the agent began deleting emails indiscriminately at extreme speed and ignored stop commands sent from her phone.
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