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Claude Cowork spreads to web and mobile as Alberta’s government puts Claude to work hardening 466 million lines of government code. Gemini 3.5 Pro slips again, OpenAI ships faster realtime voice, and a survey of tech workers finds the AI-amplified and the AI-anxious splitting apart.

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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Rebecca Bellan · Jul 7

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork assistant expands from desktop to web and mobile, with Microsoft 365 write tools for Max subscribers.

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Anthropic · Jul 6

Government of Alberta uses Claude to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities across government systems

Alberta’s government used Claude Code to scan 466 million lines of code and remediate vulnerabilities across 1,280 applications.

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Russell Brandom · Jul 7

Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

TechCrunch analysis of why open-source AI models haven’t yet eroded Anthropic’s frontier pricing power.

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Michal Sutter · Jul 6

OpenAI Releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and GPT-Realtime-2.1-mini for Low-Latency Voice Agents in the API

OpenAI released gpt-realtime-2.1 and a mini variant, cutting p95 voice-agent latency by at least 25 percent.

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BigGo Editorial Team · Jul 7

Google Delays Gemini 3.5 Pro Launch to July 17 for Full Architectural Rebuild

Google reportedly delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro to July 17 for an architectural rebuild targeting agentic task performance.

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Jim Edwards · Jul 2

Sam Altman seeks new world order for AI as OpenAI slowly loses ground to Google and Anthropic

Profiles Sam Altman’s push for international AI governance as OpenAI cedes ground to Anthropic and Google.

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Simon Willison · Jul 7

sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0, adding database schema migrations, nested transactions, and compound foreign key support.

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Noam Segal & Lenny Rachitsky · Jul 7

How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two

Survey of nearly 6,000 tech workers finds burnout rising and career optimism falling as AI reshapes daily work.

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Travis Bland · Jul 7

Phish to Launch 2026 US Summer Tour

Phish opened its 21-date 2026 summer tour in Madison, with stops planned at MSG and Fenway Park.

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Wildcard · Physics · Vienna University of Technology · Jul 7

Schrödinger’s anthill: Quantum entanglement found in a crystal large enough to hold

Physicists detected quantum entanglement across a palm-sized crystal, challenging assumptions that the effect is limited to microscopic systems.