Topic: research preview
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Claude's Desktop Automation Has a Major Drawback
Anthropic has introduced a new feature enabling its Claude AI to automate desktop tasks, such as opening applications and completing forms, moving beyond conversation to hands-on digital task automation. The functionality is currently limited as a macOS research preview, requiring a specific subs...
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Claude Code Launches on iOS and Web in Research Preview
Anthropic has launched Claude Code in a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, extending its availability to web and iOS platforms for enhanced coding workflow management. The web version enables developers to run multiple parallel coding tasks across different repositories from a single i...
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Anthropic's Claude AI Agent Now Integrates Directly in Chrome
Anthropic has launched a Claude AI agent as a Chrome extension for select testers, offering contextual browsing assistance and task automation, with initial access limited to 1,000 premium subscribers. This development is part of a broader industry trend where companies like Google, Perplexity, a...
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Claude Code adds safer auto mode
Anthropic has launched a new "auto mode" for Claude Code, designed to provide a safer, hands-off AI coding experience by balancing autonomy with risk management. The feature enhances safety by automatically flagging and blocking potentially dangerous actions, such as file deletion or code executi...
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Anthropic's Claude Coworker: Brilliant Yet Unsettling
Claude Cowork is an AI-powered file management tool that can analyze and organize documents, but it is currently an experimental "research preview" with significant security and practical limitations. The tool lacks built-in version control, placing the responsibility for data safety on the user,...
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Claude Code: Scan, Verify, and Patch Vulnerabilities
Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a new AI-powered tool in limited preview that helps developers identify complex vulnerabilities by analyzing code context and data flows, reducing false positives through an adversarial verification process. The tool suggests specific patches for flagg...
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Thinking Machines builds an AI that listens while it talks
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, unveiled "interaction models" that allow AI to interrupt users during conversations through "full duplex" communication, processing input and output simultaneously for more natural dialogue. The company's model, TML-Interaction-Smal...
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Spotify’s AI agent now creates a daily podcast just for you
Spotify launched Studio, a new AI app that generates a daily briefing podcast tailored to users based on their Spotify listening history and data from connected apps like email and calendar. The AI can take actions on behalf of users, such as researching topics, browsing the web, and organizing i...
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Claude AI can now control your computer for tasks
Anthropic's Claude AI can now directly control a user's computer desktop, enabling it to point, click, and navigate to perform tasks autonomously. The system prioritizes using direct API connectors but can request local screen control when needed, which can also be initiated remotely via a dispat...
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Anthropic’s Claude Agents gain AI daydreaming feature
Anthropic unveiled "dreaming" for Claude Managed Agents, a feature that reviews interactions to preserve key information in memory for future tasks. Dreaming is in research preview for Managed Agents on the Claude Platform, which provides pre-configured infrastructure for complex, multi-agent pro...
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Claude AI Controlled My Mac With Only Two Minor Issues
Anthropic has launched a research preview of a feature allowing its Claude AI to directly control a computer, performing tasks like opening files and browsing the web, but it is currently limited to Claude Pro/Max subscribers using the Mac app. The system works by capturing the screen to navigate...
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag learns your company through Slack messages
Anthropic has introduced "Claude Tag" in research preview as an "always-on Claude" AI teammate within Slack, offering real-time insights and task delegation, first available to Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers. Claude Tag provides persistent context and memory across a Slack channel,...
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Anthropic's Claude AI Aims to Be Your Coworking Partner
Anthropic has launched Claude Cowork, a new feature that allows its AI to autonomously manage files and perform multi-step tasks directly on a user's computer, currently available as a research preview for macOS subscribers. The tool enables Claude to read, edit, and generate files from a designa...
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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is an always-on AI teammate for Slack
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, an "always-on Claude" embedded in Slack that functions as a persistent, context-aware AI teammate, available for Claude Enterprise and Team customers. Claude Tag features persistent memory and an ambient mode that proactively monitors channels, flags relevant in...
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Claude Code Now Integrates With Slack for Developers
Anthropic has integrated its Claude Code assistant into Slack, allowing developers to tag it for automatic analysis of coding tasks directly within channels and threads. The feature requires users to have the Claude Code web version configured with repository access to enable context-aware assist...
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Stop Managing AI Bots, Start Leading Them
Major AI companies are shifting from conversational tools to managed "agent teams" that execute tasks in parallel, a vision that contributed to significant market volatility despite unproven effectiveness. Current AI agents require substantial human oversight to correct errors, and there is no ev...
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Claude Code Without Coding: Anthropic's New Cowork Tool
Anthropic's new Cowork feature integrates into Claude Desktop, allowing users to assign a folder for the AI to read and modify via chat, making advanced AI agent capabilities accessible without technical setup. Currently in research preview for Claude Pro and Team subscribers, Cowork enables prac...
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Anthropic's Opus 4.6 Launches AI 'Agent Teams'
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 introduces "agent teams," enabling multiple specialized AI agents to work in parallel on complex projects for greater efficiency, currently available in a research preview. The model now supports a 1 million token context window, allowing it to process and recall subst...
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Microsoft Copilot Tasks AI Works on Its Own Computer
Microsoft has launched a preview of "Copilot Tasks", an AI assistant that autonomously handles routine digital chores like calendar coordination and subscription management based on user instructions. The system operates independently in the cloud, works across applications, and provides detail...
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Amazon AGI Lab Chief Departs
David Luan, leader of Amazon's AGI lab, is departing to focus on new ventures, citing the perceived nearness of Artificial General Intelligence as a key motivator. His exit is a significant talent loss for Amazon amid internal criticism of its AI products and intense industry competition, followi...
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