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Claude now works across all three major Office apps

Anthropic brings Claude directly into Microsoft Word. Anthropic already offered Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. Now the company is rounding out its Microsoft Office integration with a Word ...
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Arcee AI spent half its venture capital to build an open reasoning model that rivals Claude Opus in agent tasks

Arcee AI has released Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model built to compete with Claude Opus in agent tasks. The company spent roughly half its total venture capital on the project. The ...
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The operator behind the AI agent that defamed an open-source developer calls it a "social experiment"

The anonymous person behind the AI agent "MJ Rathbun," who defamed an open-source developer, has come forward. The operator of the AI agent "MJ Rathbun," the one that wrote a defamatory article about ...
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AI models would rather guess than ask for help, researchers find

ProactiveBench tests whether multimodal language models ask users for help when visual information is missing. Out of 22 models tested, almost none ask for what they need, but a simple reinforcement ...
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Alibaba's Qwen team makes AI models think deeper with new algorithm

Alibaba's Qwen team has developed a new training algorithm for reasoning models that assigns different weights to individual tokens based on how much each step influences the subsequent chain of ...
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AI benchmarks systematically ignore how humans disagree, Google study finds

A Google study finds that the standard three to five human raters per test example often aren't enough for reliable AI ...
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Claude Code and Cowork now let Anthropic's AI take control of your Mac or Windows desktop

The feature is now available to Pro and Max users for Claude Code and Claude Cowork in the Windows app. According to Anthropic, Claude first tries existing integrations like Slack, calendars, and ...
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OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce by 2026 as it ramps up enterprise push

The AI lab wants to grow from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, the Financial Times reports, citing two people familiar with the plans. Most new hires will go into product development, ...
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Google AI Studio now lets you vibe code real-time multiplayer games

Google has launched a new vibe coding feature in Google AI Studio that lets non-programmers and programmers alike turn ideas into working apps using natural language. Users describe what they want, ...
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Meta's new AI model predicts how your brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech

A new AI model from Meta predicts how the human brain reacts to images, sounds, and speech. In tests, it often matched the typical brain response better than any single person's scan. Brain research ...
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GTC 2026: With Groq 3 LPX, Nvidia adds dedicated inference hardware to its platform for the first time

Nvidia fleshed out the Vera Rubin platform at GTC 2026: The POD comprises 40 racks with 1,152 Rubin GPUs and 60 exaflops of compute. The central NVL72 rack is expected to deliver 4x training ...
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Mistral's new Small 4 model punches above its weight with 128 expert modules

Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 4, combining fast text responses, logical reasoning, and image processing in one model. It has 119 billion parameters, but only 6 billion are active per query - ...