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Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, a version of its coding AI for regular people

Engadget

How to claim Verizon's $20 outage credit Claude Cowork is a file-managing AI agent for the rest of us. Claude Cowork is a new computer agent from Anthropic. If you follow Anthropic, you're probably familiar with Claude Code. Since the fall of 2024, the company has been training its AI models to use and navigate computers like a human would, and the coding agent has been the most practical expression of that work, giving developers a way to automate rote programming tasks. Starting today, Anthropic is giving regular people a way to take advantage of those capabilities, with the release of a new preview feature called Claude Cowork .


Anthropic made a version of its coding AI for regular people

Engadget

Claude Cowork is the computer agent for the rest of us. Claude Cowork is a new computer agent from Anthropic. If you follow Anthropic, you're probably familiar with Claude Code. Since the fall of 2024, the company has been training its AI models to use and navigate computers like a human would, and the coding agent has been the most practical expression of that work, giving developers a way to automate rote programming tasks. Starting today, Anthropic is giving regular people a way to take advantage of those capabilities, with the release of a new preview feature called Claude Cowork .


California's exodus isn't just billionaires -- it's regular people renting U-Hauls, too

Los Angeles Times

Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. A renter drives a U-Haul in Mission Valley in 2023. This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here . Anecdotal data suggest there is also an exodus of regular people who load their belongings into rental trucks and lug them to another state.


We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence

WIRED

Two months later, the A-list actress Scarlett Johansson sent a legal letter to OpenAI when she realized its new ChatGPT voice was "eerily similar" to hers. This story is from the WIRED World in 2025, our annual trends briefing. People understand that this technology is being built on their data, often without our permission. It's no wonder that public confidence in AI is declining. A recent study by Pew Research shows that more than half of Americans are more concerned than they are excited about AI, a sentiment echoed by a majority of people from Central and South American, African, and Middle Eastern countries in a World Risk Poll.


The Next Tech Backlash Will Be About Hygiene

TIME - Tech

For centuries it was biology that made humans sick. Today, it is often stress. So argues Dr Gabor Maté about the unrecognized toll that "normal" modern life has on your mental and physical health. Dr. Maté's research, which struck a chord in 2023, invites reflection on the roll out of generative AI into daily life in 2024. As half of British teens report feeling addicted to social media, and as the U.S. surgeon general offers a rare caution against its health risks, the infusion of generative AI into social media appears to threaten our basic hygiene, meaning "the conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease."


GREG GUTFELD: The left's finally learning that hit pieces on regular people are no replacement for content

FOX News

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld gives his take on Deadspin laying off all of its staff on'Gutfeld!' I love every one of you. All right, let's get started. Dylan Mulvaney is trying to switch from transgender influencer to stand-up comic. After the Budweiser fiasco, you got to admit, that takes balls.


What Sam Altman Can Get Away With Now

Slate

The deposed tech CEO returning to his company triumphant is enough of a Silicon Valley trope that they made it part of the HBO sitcom literally called Silicon Valley. Thomas Middleditch's character wants to build a consumer-facing product, and his startup's board of directors wants to sell to businesses, and Middleditch's character gets fired and goes away until the board is ready to do what he wants. He comes back after a few weeks, probably, although it's hard to say on account of it not being real. More famously, Steve Jobs left Apple in 1985 after a board struggle that resulted in his being pushed out. Jobs needed 12 years, and Apple's decision to buy a company he'd started in the meantime, to come home in 1997.


Can humanity be recreated in the metaverse?

#artificialintelligence

Were you unable to attend Transform 2022? Check out all of the summit sessions in our on-demand library now! Today, the internet is a mostly 2D platform that we consume through a screen. It is a command-line prompt for the reality we live in. Instagram posts, Tiktoks, text messages, emails and voice memos are all digital artifacts things people create and receive in the physical world.


Can humanity be recreated in the metaverse?

#artificialintelligence

Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. Today, the internet is a mostly 2D platform that we consume through a screen. It is a command-line prompt for the reality we live in. Instagram posts, Tiktoks, text messages, emails and voice memos are all digital artifacts things people create and receive in the physical world. But this will change when the metaverse becomes so immersive and photo-realistic that physical reality extends into virtual spaces.


You -- yes, you -- can help AI predict the spread of coronavirus

#artificialintelligence

Roni Rosenfeld makes predictions for a living. Typically, he uses artificial intelligence to forecast the spread of the seasonal flu. But with the coronavirus outbreak claiming lives all over the world, he's switched to predicting the spread of Covid-19. It was the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that asked Rosenfeld to take on this task. As a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, he leads the machine learning department and the Delphi research group, which aims "to make epidemiological forecasting as universally accepted and useful as weather forecasting is today."