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Anthropic is launching a research preview of a browser-based AI agent powered by its Claude AI models, the companyannouncedon Tuesday. The agent, Claude for Chrome, is rolling out to a group of 1000 subscribers on Anthropic’s Max plan, which costs between $100 and $200 per month. The company is also opening awaitlistfor other interested users. […]

Anthropichas settled a class action lawsuitwith a group of fiction and nonfiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic hadwon a partial victory in a lower court rulingand was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were made public, and Anthropic

The Trump administration made an unprecedented, and confusing, move last week when it announced plans to convert money Intel was supposed to receive through Joe Biden-era government grant programs into a 10% equity stake.While it remains unclear if converting those government grants into equity is even possible —that’s up for debate— it’s even less obvious

Library e-book and audiobook appLibbyis adding AI, much to the disappointment ofsomereadersandlibrarians, who would prefer not to have AI inserted into their favorite apps. The new feature, “Inspire Me,” allows users to get book recommendations by using prompts or from their previously saved titles in Libby. To use the feature, readers tap on the “Inspire

Meta plans tolaunch a super PACto support California candidates favoring a light-touch approach to AI regulation, Politico reports. The news comes as other Silicon Valley behemoths, like Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI’s Greg Brockman, pledge$100 million for a new pro-AI super PAC.  Meta will pour tens of millions into its new group, dubbed Mobilizing Economic Transformation

IBM andAMDare partnering to develop next-generation computing architectures that integrateIBM’s quantumsystems with AMD’s AI-specialized chips. The move could position both the tech giant and chipmaker as key infrastructure players, as they look to regain ground after falling behind on the generative AI boom. Together, IBM and AMD will attempt to launch a commercially viable quantum

Google is rolling out a new AI-powered experimental feature in Google Translate designed to help people practice and learn a new language, the company announced on Tuesday. Translate is also gaining new live capabilities to make it easier to communicate in real time with a person speaking a different language. The new language practice feature

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Google’s highly speculated new image model, which many beta users know as nanobanana, has finally been released as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image and will be integrated into the Gemini app. 

Fixing climate change is no small task — just ask carbon removal developers likeMitti Labs. The New York-based startup has developed technology to measure how much methane is released by rice paddies and uses it to train hundreds of thousands of farmers in climate-friendly practices. It’s the sort of high-touch endeavor that venture capitalists typically

Before 16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide, he had spent months consulting ChatGPT about his plans to end his life. Now, his parents are filing the first known wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Timesreports. Many consumer-facing AI chatbots are programmed to activate safety features if a user expresses intent to harm themselves