Anthropic expands Claude Cowork with enterprise controls

Anthropic is rolling out a set of organizational controls for Claude Cowork, its AI-powered collaboration tool, making it available across all paid plans. A post in the official Claude Blog states that the update brings role-based access controls, group spending limits, expanded observability, and new usage analytics to help companies deploy the tool company-wide. Claude …

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Google adds notebooks to Gemini app for better project organization

Google is adding a notebooks feature to the Gemini app, giving users a dedicated space to organize chats, files, and documents around specific topics or projects. The company describes notebooks as personal knowledge bases that will eventually work across multiple Google products. Users can create a notebook from the side panel in the Gemini app. …

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AI search results can be manipulated, and these companies are already doing it

The companies behind AI-powered search tools like Google’s AI Mode and ChatGPT are increasingly shaping which brands consumers discover. The SEO industry is racing to exploit that influence, and some of the tactics are already working. The Verge reports on a growing wave of manipulation attempts targeting AI search systems. One widespread tactic involves companies …

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Claude Mythos: Anthropic restricts its most capable AI model over cybersecurity risks

Anthropic has introduced a new AI model it considers too dangerous to release publicly. The model, called Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities in software. Instead of making it widely available, Anthropic is sharing access with a coalition of more than 40 organizations as part of an initiative called Project Glasswing. …

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Is OpenAI losing its edge? A string of setbacks puts ChatGPT at a crossroads

OpenAI built its reputation on ChatGPT, the chatbot that introduced millions of people to generative AI. But a series of product failures, cancelled deals, and a shifting competitive landscape are raising questions about whether the company can hold on to its lead. The most visible sign of trouble came when OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora, …

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Google’s AI Overviews are wrong millions of times per hour

Google’s AI Overviews are accurate about 91 percent of the time. This sounds good at first, but Tripp Mickle and colleagues report for The New York Times that this still means the search engine delivers tens of millions of incorrect answers every hour. The New York Times commissioned AI startup Oumi to test Google’s system …

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Google adds AI music and customizable avatars to Vids

Google has expanded its video creation tool, Google Vids, with several new AI-powered features. The updates cover music generation, customizable avatars, and direct publishing to YouTube. Users can now generate original music tracks directly inside Google Vids. Powered by Google’s Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro models, the tool lets users type a text prompt …

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