Anthropic’s Claude Cowork assistant expands from desktop to web and mobile, with Microsoft 365 write tools for Max subscribers.
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Ten items on agentic platforms, frontier model competition, and engineering-workforce sentiment, plus Phish’s tour kickoff and a wildcard on macroscopic quantum entanglement.
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork assistant expands from desktop to web and mobile, with Microsoft 365 write tools for Max subscribers.
Alberta’s government used Claude Code to scan 466 million lines of code and remediate vulnerabilities across 1,280 applications.
TechCrunch analysis of why open-source AI models haven’t yet eroded Anthropic’s frontier pricing power.
OpenAI released gpt-realtime-2.1 and a mini variant, cutting p95 voice-agent latency by at least 25 percent.
Google reportedly delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 for an architectural rebuild targeting agentic task performance.
Profiles Sam Altman’s push for international AI governance as OpenAI cedes ground to Anthropic and Google.
Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0, adding database schema migrations, nested transactions, and compound foreign key support.
Survey of nearly 6,000 tech workers finds burnout rising and career optimism falling as AI reshapes daily work.
Phish opened its 21-date 2026 summer tour in Madison, with stops planned at MSG and Fenway Park.
Physicists detected quantum entanglement across a palm-sized crystal, challenging assumptions that the effect is limited to microscopic systems.