Chrome’s new Skills feature lets you run AI tasks with a single click

Google has launched a feature called Skills in the Chrome browser that lets users save AI prompts and run them again with a single click. The feature is available through the Gemini sidebar in Chrome on desktop. Without Skills, repeating an AI task required users to type the same prompt each time they visited a …

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Google launches native Gemini app for Mac

Google has released a native Gemini app for macOS. The app is available for free to all Gemini users on macOS 15 and later and can be downloaded at gemini.google/mac. Unlike using Gemini in a browser, the desktop app is always accessible via a keyboard shortcut: Option + Space. This opens a pill-shaped prompt bar …

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Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant takes over Photoshop, Premiere, and more

Adobe has unveiled the Firefly AI Assistant, a new tool that lets users control multiple Adobe Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and Lightroom through a single conversational interface. Users describe what they want in plain language, and the assistant executes multi-step workflows across the relevant apps. The assistant is the commercial release of …

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YouTube launches AI avatar feature for Shorts

YouTube has introduced a new feature that allows users to create a photorealistic AI avatar of themselves for use in Shorts. Abner Li reports for 9to5Google that the tool captures both a user’s appearance and voice to generate personalised video clips. To set up the avatar, users record a live selfie and read a few …

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Analysis: How dangerous is Claude Mythos really?

Anthropic’s newest and most capable AI model, Claude Mythos, can autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities in virtually all major software systems. As I wrote previously, Mythos is currently only available to a select group of technology companies through Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s initiative to patch critical software before the capabilities become more widely known. Zvi …

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Meta launches proprietary AI model Muse Spark

Meta has released Muse Spark, a new proprietary artificial intelligence model built by its internal division Meta Superintelligence Labs. The model is available through the Meta AI app and website, with a private API preview for select users. Unlike Meta’s previous Llama models, Muse Spark is not open source. Muse Spark can process text and …

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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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ChatGPT Pro gets a new $100 tier

OpenAI has launched a new $100 per month version of its ChatGPT Pro subscription, mainly targeting users of its Codex AI coding tool. Zac Hall reports for 9to5Mac that the new tier sits between the existing $20 per month Plus plan and the original $200 per month Pro plan, which remains available. The new Pro …

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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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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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