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Anthropic is rolling out a built in browser for Claude Cowork that lets the AI open websites, read pages, click controls and enter text without leaving the desktop app. The feature is intended for tasks such as completing web forms or retrieving figures from dashboards that do not offer an API. The browser opens in …
Google has introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative video model aimed at giving developers and creative teams more control over how clips are made, extended and refined. The company is adding scene continuation, keyframe-based video generation, low-cost draft rendering, video references and output options up to 4K. The update addresses a …
Google is expanding Gemini Live with voice-driven task automation, daily summaries and Gmail controls. In an official Google Blog post, Neel Joshi announces that the update connects Gemini Live with Spark, Google’s system for handling longer, multi-step tasks. The new Spark integration lets users describe a goal by voice and have Gemini carry out related …
Alibaba has introduced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a multimodal AI model designed to deliver strong coding and workplace performance while using far less computing power than larger rivals. Matthias Bastian reports for The Decoder that the release also previews architectural ideas Alibaba plans to bring to its future Qwen4 model family. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next contains 125 billion parameters overall, but …
Google has introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for live conversations, recorded meetings and voice-driven software. The company says the model produces formatted text directly from raw audio and is built to handle noise, specialist vocabulary, accents and spoken corrections. The release comes in two versions for developers. The Live API model, called gemini-3.5-transcribe-live, …
Chinese AI company Z.ai has confirmed that the previously anonymous Ox Alpha model is GLM-5.3-Flash, a new multimodal member of its GLM model family. The company says it plans to release the model’s weights, allowing developers to run, adapt and build products with the system. Luz Ding reports for Bloomberg that Ox Alpha rose rapidly …
Thomson Reuters has launched Thomson, its first proprietary large language model, and plans to use it first in CoCounsel Legal. Thomson Reuters announces in an official press release that it trained the model in house, using an open source base model and about $40 million in investment for talent and computing resources. The company says …
Anthropic has combined the memory systems used by Claude chat and Claude Cowork. Information Claude retains from conversations can now follow users between the chatbot and the company’s task-focused Cowork tool. David Gewirtz reports for ZDNET that the shared memory works in both directions. Context created in Cowork can also be used in later Claude …
Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, a version of its AI agent platform that runs on a user’s own Nvidia equipped hardware rather than primarily in the cloud. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the product was developed with Nvidia and is initially available for Linux systems with supported RTX graphics cards and Nvidia’s DGX Spark …
Google will introduce Ask Gemini in Google Chat, adding a central interface for finding information, creating content and managing work without leaving the collaboration app. The company announces in an official Google Workspace Updates blog post that the feature begins rolling out on August 26. Ask Gemini appears in Chat’s Shortcuts menu and works as …