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Anthropic debuts Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code, for automating complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic is launching Cowork for Claude as a research preview. — It's built upon Claude Code and can automate complex tasks.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Claude Cowork hands-on: a general agent well positioned to bring Claude Code's powerful capabilities to a wider audience, but prompt injection risks remain — New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”.
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-employee Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds — The layoffs are set to be announced this week and would affect Meta's work on the metaverse, as the company spends heavily on building artificial intelligence.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal “seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google, given that [they] also have Android and Chrome” — Elon Musk today expressed concern about Apple and Google partnering on a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google's generative AI platform Gemini.
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| Business Insider: |
Trump says Microsoft will “ensure” Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must “pay their own way” for their data centers — - President Donald Trump asks tech companies to “pay their own way” for their data centers.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition — President Trump was right about Microsoft — but he only leaked part of the story. — Microsoft is changing its approach to building … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs — IDC expects the PC market to be volatile this year ahead of anticipated price increases. … The PC market is bracing … | Laura Mandaro / The Information: |
OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI health care app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; a source says OpenAI is paying about $100M in equity — OpenAI has agreed to buy Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app, for about $100 million in equity, according to a person with direct knowledge of the acquisition.
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China — The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that expands U.S. export controls to restrict Chinese companies' ability …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices — Pebble's founder, Eric Migicovsky, is doing things differently with his reboot of the Pebble smartwatch brand and an AI ring.| Reuters: |
Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it “would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive” — Nvidia does not require upfront payment for H200 chips, a spokesperson for the U.S. chipmaker said in a statement to Reuters on Tuesday.
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| Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others — Proxima, a biotech startup using artificial intelligence to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised $80 million in seed funding … | Sam Knight / New Yorker: |
A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide — The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M — Usage of voice AI in sales, marketing, customer support, and consumer applications has shot up in the last few years.
More: Reuters, Pulse 2.0, and Tech Funding News
| Wall Street Journal: |
PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom — Increasing demand from tech industry threatens to max out generation capacity in 13-state region; rate increases anger consumers| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways Salesforce made Slackbot generally available.Slackbot is an AI agent for work built in Slack.Business …
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| Chainalysis: |
Crypto scams received $14B+ on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B+ as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% — In 2025, cryptocurrency scams received at least $14 billion on-chain, a significant increase from the $9.9 billion we first reported in 2024 …
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| Laura Cress / BBC: |
The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X — The UK will bring into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, following widespread concerns over Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot.
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| Lauly Li / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China — TAIPEI — Google will start developing and manufacturing high-end smartphones in Vietnam this year from scratch in a move similar …
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200+ live events since March 2023 — After some very public glitches, Netflix thinks it has cracked the code on the tech needed to stream live events.| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M+ for just 30 seconds — AI companies are engaged in an expensive arms race to attract users and alleviate public anxiety about the technology| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A — Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into drug discovery as pharmaceutical and biotech companies look for ways …
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