AI agents in Slack are moving beyond simple chatbots that answer when tagged. Anthropic has expanded its Claude Tag agent so it can read the full context of a channel conversation and decide whether to intervene. NanoClaw, meanwhile, now lets users create teams of separate, persistent agents directly from a Slack message. The developments illustrate …
Anthropic made a big splash when it announced invisible watermarks for text generated by its Claude models. But if you look more closely, you realize: Other AI vendors are doing the same or are working on similar features. One of the reasons is regulatory pressure: The EU AI Act is one prominent example forcing the …
Users and teams should measure whether AI answers are correct before letting them influence decisions, not merely whether they sound convincing. Arun Mishra writes for VentureBeat that qualitative reviews often miss confident errors because reviewers judge outputs against intuition rather than verified facts. That distinction matters as large language models move beyond drafting and summarising. …
A majority of Americans now say they feel more concerned than excited about artificial intelligence becoming part of daily life. The share has risen to 52%, from 37% in 2021, according to a new survey by Colleen McClain and Eugenie Park for Pew Research Center. The findings challenge the assumption that younger people are broadly …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …
Anthropic has disclosed that its forthcoming Claude text watermark uses a secret pattern in the model’s word-selection process, rather than hidden characters or metadata. The method can identify text that Claude likely generated or substantially processed, but it needs enough text to produce a reliable result and can be defeated by a complete rewrite. The …
Mistral AI is opening its inference platform to third-party open models, beginning with GLM-5.2 from Chinese developer Z.ai. The French company says customers will be able to use external models on the same infrastructure, regional settings and service levels offered for Mistral’s own models. The move is part of a broader infrastructure push. Mistral has …
Google has introduced Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its lower cost AI model aimed at coding, workplace tasks and AI agents that use software tools. The company is offering an introductory API price of $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens through the end of 2026. Prices are set …
Google is positioning the Pixel 11 family less as a hardware refresh and more as a vehicle for Gemini features that can act across apps, handle routine requests and reshape how photos are processed. The new phones introduce agent-like Gemini tasks, expanded translation tools and AI camera functions, while the Pixel Watch 5 extends Google’s …
AI coding agents can now plan experiments, write software, run tests, inspect failures and revise their work with limited human supervision, according to a detailed personal case study by Google DeepMind researcher David P. Reichert. Reichert writes in his Substack that recent tools such as Anthropic’s Claude Code should be understood less as chatbots and …