Some publicly shared Claude conversations and Artifacts have appeared in Google Search results, making them accessible to people who did not receive the original links. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that Reddit and X users found Claude pages through Google queries targeting the service’s sharing URLs. The issue does not indicate that private Claude accounts …
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is set to meet senior Trump administration officials, senators and economists in Washington this week as policymakers debate AI security and access to Chinese models. Ashley Capoot and Kate Rooney report for CNBC that Altman plans to preview OpenAI’s upcoming model family and answer questions about cybersecurity, AI agents and …
GPT-5.6 Sol delivered the strongest overall results in a drawing experiment that asked four AI models to create images stroke by stroke on a digital canvas. TryAI reports in its drawing-arena analysis that GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Grok 4.5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash received the same colored-pencil tools and either copied famous paintings or …
Microsoft is expanding its in-house AI portfolio with new image and speech models, while shifting more product traffic away from expensive general-purpose systems. The company has placed MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash into public preview. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro targets detailed image creation, editing and text within images. MAI-Voice-2-Flash is designed for large-scale speech applications such as contact centres and …
OpenAI has introduced Presence, a managed enterprise product designed to help companies deploy AI agents for customer service and internal operations. The system supports real time voice and chat interactions, allowing agents to answer questions, access selected company systems, complete approved tasks and hand difficult cases to employees. Presence is not a self service tool …
Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 5, a new AI model positioned as a lower-cost alternative to its most capable commercially available system, Claude Fable 5. The company says Opus 5 approaches Fable 5’s performance on coding, knowledge work and computer-use tasks while costing roughly half as much per task. Opus 5 is now the default …
Black Forest Labs has introduced FLUX 3, a new foundation model designed to generate images and video with synchronized audio, while also serving as a base for robotics systems. The company is initially limiting access to selected users and partners through an Early Access programme. FLUX 3 Video can create clips up to 20 seconds …
Anthropic has expanded Claude’s voice mode to include its more capable Opus and Sonnet models, alongside the faster Haiku model. The update is designed for longer, more complex spoken conversations, such as preparing a client pitch, testing an idea or reviewing a decision. Users can select a model during a voice conversation or let Claude …
A federal judge in San Francisco has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers whose books were obtained from pirate websites. The deal resolves a major copyright class action over material connected to the training of Anthropic’s Claude AI models. The settlement is the largest known recovery in a US …
Google’s expansion of AI-powered search is raising fresh concerns that the company could weaken the open web by keeping users inside its own products. Kate Conger reports for The New York Times that publishers, retailers and other website operators are seeing search traffic fall as Google provides more answers directly through AI. Google’s AI Mode …