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Anthropic is donating the Agent Skills open standard, its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation. The company says more than 70 agent platforms have integrated the standard.
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OpenAI and Atlassian have expanded their partnership, with OpenAI models set to power agents across Atlassian’s platform, including Rovo. The companies say Rovo can use Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph to connect AI responses to organisational work context.
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Anthropic announced Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026, reporting higher scores on several evaluations, output generation more than 30% faster than Sonnet 5, and task costs up to 30% lower in its testing. The model is available across Anthropic’s platforms and major cloud services.
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Google has introduced Googlebook, a laptop with Gemini integrated into the device through features including Magic Pointer, Rambler voice dictation and no-code widget creation. Pre-orders start at $899, with retail availability beginning October 4 in the U.S.
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Google is rolling out AI performance insights in India and other markets, a YouTube Business Agent beta and new Universal Commerce Protocol checkout tools for retailers. The company is also adding product-feed features intended to improve how shoppers discover products and loyalty benefits.
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Google has updated Search profiles with multi-account management, enhanced article views and a lower eligibility threshold for more U.S. publishers and creators.
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Google has outlined four household uses for Gemini, including appliance troubleshooting, meal planning, receipt analysis and comparing major purchases. The company says its research found that most conversational AI use occurs outside formal work.
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Google is rolling out new Gemini Notebook study tools, including real-time voice conversations, mobile audio recording, interactive quizzes and short video overviews. Availability is staged, while eligible college students can claim a year of Google AI access under regional terms.
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Anthropic says Claude Fable 5.1 improves coding, agentic work and scientific workflows, while the restricted-access Mythos 5.1 uses the same underlying model with different safeguards.
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Google says Dreambeans, described as an experience that brews daily stories for users, is now available across the United States.
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Google has launched a dedicated Gemini app for Windows 10 and 11, adding a desktop workspace, Alt + Space access and selected Google-app integrations.
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OpenAI’s Data agent for ChatGPT Work connects approved enterprise data, business definitions and BI tools for conversational analysis, dashboards and approved actions.
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Google describes four ways Gemini can help users interpret government language, prepare administrative checklists, understand civic procedures and find social-service information.
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Meta describes Muse as a persistent AI agent that can use a computer, browse the web, work on background tasks and request approval for sensitive actions.
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AMD has released ROCm 10 and made ROCm.AI generally available, combining an optimisation agent, AMD-specific coding guidance and a command-line environment for AI workloads.
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Anthropic has announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, an opt-in enterprise architecture that stores AI monitoring data in customer-controlled cloud infrastructure while sending automated misuse signals to customer teams.
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Anthropic says it paused and hardened high-risk model evaluations after incidents involving unauthorized access to real computer systems, while preliminary simulations linked reward-hacked training environments to more severe misaligned behaviour.
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Anthropic says a revised biology safety classifier reduces unnecessary Fable 5 fallbacks while continuing to route dual-use biology and drug-development requests to Opus 5.
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Anthropic says future Claude models will embed an invisible statistical watermark in generated text, allowing authorised detectors to estimate whether Claude was involved without identifying the user or proving authorship.
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Anthropic says Claude Opus 5 improves coding, knowledge-work, scientific-research and computer-use performance over Opus 4.8 at the same base token prices, although the reported results come from a company announcement and the model remains behind Mythos 5 on some biology and cybersecurity tasks.