Claude Duet and Canva Craft push AI into daily workflows, while security failures and lobbying test how much trust those products have earned.
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Claude Duet and Canva Craft push AI into daily workflows, while security failures and lobbying test how much trust those products have earned.
Anthropic just announced an AI agent competitor to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots: Claude Duet. The new agent, designed for professionals and small business owners, is launching as a "research preview," according to Anthropic, and it's available as a standalone app on iOS and Android and through Claude on the web. The AI agent is
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Microsoft wants enterprises to closely watch the agents employees use with systems not controlled by AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Why it matters: Useful for teams deciding how to make agents reliable outside a demo.
Claude Duet is available through waitlist for Pro and Max plan users
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craft, uses a two-stage architecture that allows it to plan a design before generating an image, allowing for "greater precision, consistency and control," according to an
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic's $2.1 million and OpenAI's $1.5 million. Compared to other Big Tech companies with long-established presences in Washington,
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
An investment research firm wanted to prove AI could revolutionize drug development. So they teamed up with Anthropic to see whether an unreleased version of Claude could make scorpion antivenom. It couldn't. It came up with some promising starting points, but nothing close to an actual drug, experts tell The Verge. Citrini Research, the firm
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
The proposed policy seems to offer protections against AI run amok but actually forbids federal agencies from blocking a model's release without the permission of a judge.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that "your secrets are safe with me," but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning. The Verge and security
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.
US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.
Why it matters: A product or market move worth tracking for its downstream effect on how people adopt AI.