Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for finance, integrates with Excel to rival Microsoft Copilot
Anthropic is making its most aggressive push yet into the trillion-dollar financial services industry, unveiling a suite of tools that embed its Claude AI assistant directly into Microsoft Excel and connect it to real-time market data from some of the world’s most influential financial information providers. The San Francisco-based AI startup announced Monday it is […]
When your AI browser becomes your enemy: The Comet security disaster
Remember when browsers were simple? You clicked a link, a page loaded, maybe you filled out a form. Those days feel ancient now that AI browsers like Perplexity’s Comet promise to do everything for you — browse, click, type, think. But here’s the plot twist nobody saw coming: That helpful AI assistant browsing the web […]
Thinking Machines challenges OpenAI’s AI scaling strategy: ‘First superintelligence will be a superhuman learner’
While the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of the industry’s most secretive and valuable startups delivered a pointed challenge to that orthodoxy this week: The path forward isn’t about training bigger — it’s about learning better. […]
Mistral launches its own AI Studio for quick development with its European open source, proprietary models
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be “studio” environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded French AI startup Mistral launched its own Mistral AI Studio, a new production platform designed to help enterprises build, observe, and operationalize […]
Inside Ring-1T: Ant engineers solve reinforcement learning bottlenecks at trillion scale
China’s Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, detailed technical information around its new model, Ring-1T, which the company said is “the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion total parameters.” Ring-1T aims to compete with other reasoning models like GPT-5 and the o-series from OpenAI, as well as Google’s Gemini 2.5. With the new release […]
Microsoft Copilot gets 12 big updates for fall, including new AI assistant character Mico
Microsoft today held a live announcement event online for its Copilot AI digital assistant, with Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft’s AI division, and other presenters unveiling a new generation of features that deepen integration across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365, positioning the platform as a practical assistant for people during work and off-time, while allowing […]
OpenAI launches company knowledge in ChatGPT, letting you access your firm’s data from Google Drive, Slack, GitHub
Is the Google Search for internal enterprise knowledge finally here…but from OpenAI? It certainly seems that way. Today, OpenAI has launched company knowledge in ChatGPT, a major new capability for subscribers to ChatGPT’s paid Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans that lets them call up their company’s data directly from third-party workplace apps including Slack, SharePoint, […]
‘AI is tearing companies apart’: Writer AI CEO slams Fortune 500 leaders for mismanaging tech
May Habib, co-founder and CEO of Writer AI, delivered one of the bluntest assessments of corporate AI failures at the TED AI conference on Tuesday, revealing that nearly half of Fortune 500 executives believe artificial intelligence is actively damaging their organizations — and placing the blame squarely on leadership’s shoulders. The problem, according to Habib, […]
Sakana AI’s CTO says he’s ‘absolutely sick’ of transformers, the tech that powers every major AI model
In a striking act of self-critique, one of the architects of the transformer technology that powers ChatGPT, Claude, and virtually every major AI system told an audience of industry leaders this week that artificial intelligence research has become dangerously narrow — and that he’s moving on from his own creation. Llion Jones, who co-authored the […]
Research finds that 77% of data engineers have heavier workloads despite AI tools: Here’s why and what to do about it
Data engineers should be working faster than ever. AI-powered tools promise to automate pipeline optimization, accelerate data integration and handle the repetitive grunt work that has defined the profession for decades. Yet, according to a new survey of 400 senior technology executives by MIT Technology Review Insights in partnership with Snowflake, 77% say their data […]