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Anthropic’s filing doesn’t name IT services as a rival, yet it trains their engineers, sells through their channels and builds its own deployment arm.
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Anthropic has introduced Message Threads in public beta on the Claude Platform. The new feature is intended to reduce response latency in long-running AI agent sessions. It eliminates the need to resend the entire conversation history with every API request. With Message Threads, developers can share new messages and the ID of the previous response to get responses. Anthropic confirmed that the new feature is enabled by default for most Claude Code users.
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Google is said to be testing a change to its Search interface. According to a report, the Mountain View-based tech giant appears to be making its AI Mode less prominent for some users on Search. The dedicated AI Mode button has reportedly been removed from the Search bar on the web. It is, however, believed to be part of a limited experiment, and the feature itself may remain accessible to other users.
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OpenAI launched its new specialised AI tool for managing personal finances earlier this year. Dubbed ChatGPT Finances, the tool was recently made available for Free and Go users in select global markets, allowing them to connect their financial accounts. Since its release in May in preview, the Sam Altman-led AI giant has added multiple features to the AI-powered financial management tool. Now, the company has announced the integration of ChatGPT Voice into ChatGPT Finances. The latest addition allows users to have hands-free conversations with the chatbot, eliminating the need for users to write prompts. ChatGPT Voice also lets users “talk through questions”.
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Google introduced the Guided Learning tool in Gemini in August last year. The company positions the tool as a “learning companion” that allows students and teachers to learn more about different topics. Students can present a problem to the AI chatbot in Guided Learning mode to get a detailed step-by-step solution, helping them with their homework. It is also capable of designing practice questions for pupils. Now, the Mountain View-based tech giant has announced that it is bringing the Guided Learning tool to two new services, including Google Search and Google Classroom. Further, the company is bringing greater control for schools over how their students use AI.
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IndiaAI Mission was approved by the Union Cabinet in March 2024, under the aegis of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The initiative was launched with the aim of “Making AI in India and Making AI Work for India”. Now, MeitY has launched three new indigenous AI models from two AI labs, namely Soket Labs Technology and Research and ZenteiQ AiTech Innovations. Soket AI claims that its AI model demonstrated “advanced capabilities” in math, coding, reasoning, and agentic use. Meanwhile, ZenteiQ says that its open-source large language models (LLMs) offer support for 10 Indian languages.
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Nothing recently announced that it plans to launch twice the number of smartphones in 2027, after having a relatively slim product lineup this year. The last device the London-based tech firm launched was the Nothing Headphone (1) Pro, which was unveiled in select global markets in September. Now, the company has announced that it has one more product launch lined up for this year. Nothing's Chief Executive Officer revealed that the tech firm will soon launch its first AI-powered device. The executive has also teased the design of the device, while keeping the name and category behind the curtain.
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Amid the numerous tech layoffs happening across the globe, comes news about Google that has reportedly extended its voluntary exit programme to more countries this year. While there are no confirmed details about how many employees have voluntarily signed up for it, it has now been reported that Google had expanded its voluntary buyout offers in June. The news comes shortly after software giant Microsoft offered voluntary exit buyouts to about 60,000 employees primarily in the US, UK, India and Canada. More recently, Canva trimmed down 22 percent of its workforce, which affects 1,271 employees across several countries.
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OpenAI has rolled out Images 2.6 for ChatGPT and its API, adding GIF creation to its image generation tools. Users can now animate photos or create GIFs from text prompts, change playback speeds and edit individual frames. The update also lets them save images of people, pets and characters to use as references later. Developers, meanwhile, get two new image generation models, along with SVG exports and more control over image edits.
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Apple is said to be tightening its spending limits on artificial intelligence (AI) tools used by employees. According to a report, the Cupertino-based tech giant has already reduced the daily allowance for some engineers using AI models from $300 to $200, with further cuts being considered for select teams, even as it looks to make AI a bigger part of its internal operations. The proposed changes will reportedly bring some engineering budgets down to $100 per day. Meanwhile, employees in other departments may also face lower limits.
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At its developer conference on Thursday, Box showed off a new feature that will build Nvidia’s Nemotron embedding system into the core of its product. Called Box Content Retrieval, the new feature allows agents to answer queries far more effectively by relying on the embedded metadata created by Nemotron. Box says the upshot for users is faster, more accurate, and less expensive queries. Nvidia’s VP of generative AI software, Kari Briski, told TechCrunch that she expects queries to be answered four times faster, with 20% fewer errors and 90% fewer tokens used. The system will be available to all of Box’s Enterprise Advance customers, rolling out early next year. “This dramatically boosts both the relevance of our search technology for agents,” Box CEO Aaron Levie said. “Instead of an agent having to kind of read through each document, we can send back chunks from the documents that are most relevant to the user’s query or whatever the task is that the agent is doing.” The feature is an implementation ofNvidia’s Nemotron Embedproject, which offers open-weight embedding models to improve automated retrieval systems. Major labs have often overlooked such models, which use LLMs to pre-process data so it can be better used by agents. The sector has been a focus for Nvidia’s open source model project, with its recent Nemotron release in July topping the RTEB benchmark, which measures retrieval quality. The system will be most useful when paired with active agents, Box says, giving the example of lawyers, who will ostensibly be able to find relevant clauses and precedents more easily under the new system. Because Nemotron’s embeddings go beyond simple keywords to map underlying concepts, a search tool can surface related legal themes even when different wording or language is used. While the Nemotron models are freely available, the system also relies heavily on Box’s pre-existing metadata and permission controls, which will make it challenging to recreate from scratch. “We’re probably packing in five different technologies into one simple API,” Levie told TechCrunch.
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Hardware startupAinareleased a smart ring today that features a screen, a joystick, and a mic so that you can talk to your agents and take notes. The $399 ring has a speaker so you can take calls using it as well. The startup, which raised$5.5 million in July, is positioning the ring as a controller of sorts for both AI and non-AI apps. The company previously made Mirage, a three-key controller that let you invoke buttons based on the app on your Mac’s screen. For instance, if you were on a Google Meet call, you could map keys to camera on/off, mic mute/unmute, or to leave the meeting. Aina has baked in lessons from that device to create the new ring, which it’s simply calling “AI ring.” Using its mic, you can take notes, send a prompt to agents, set reminders, and dictate notes on your Mac using Wispr Flow or the startup’s own dictation engine. Now, there are already smart rings in the market that do similar things, like thePebble Index 01,Sandbar Stream,Oasis, andNatura, which is probably why Aina has added more controls and functionality to stand out. Its ring comes with a speaker so that you can take calls, and there is a screen, which lets you see notifications from your phone or which apps you are controlling. For navigation, there is a joystick, and it also supports gestures, so that it can trigger different actions based on what’s on your Mac or phone’s screen. The ring also lets you control music or even smart home devices like Apple TV. I have used the ring for a few days, and it feels like a smartwatch in a ring format, with more controls. I can get notifications and reply to them. It surfaces my meetings; I can call Uber if I want to get a ride home. It’s easier to use Apple TV’s remote itself, but the Aina ring proved useful the couple times I couldn’t find the remote. Granted, a lot of the software and features are still being fleshed out, so it’s hard to figure out where such a device ring might sit in my daily usage, but it is squarely aimed at folks who are surrounded by digital devices and AI applications. “Phones and laptop screens were designed for an age of browsing where you think about opening apps. For interacting with proactive agents, we need a better interface, and that is what we had in mind while designing Aina,” Apoorv Shankar, Aina’s founder, told TechCrunch over a call. Companies are trying to cater to programmers and AI enthusiasts with specialized hardware that could help them harness different agents. This includesOpenAI’s experimental keyboardand Rabbit trying toposition itself as a controller. The hope with such hardware is that enough people will have multiple agents running to invest in specific gadgets to keep tabs on them. Aina’s ring goes on preorder starting Thursday at early-bird pricing of $399, and the company plans to start shipping the device in January 2027. Once the early-bird period ends, the ring will cost $499.
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