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Claude Enterprise merges chat and Cowork into a unified experience

Anthropic announced that the Claude Enterprise plan officially launches a unified Claude experience, merging chat and Cowork across web, desktop, and mobile, so teams can ask questions or deliver complete projects within the same conversation. Agent tasks run in Anthropic-hosted cloud environments, with each session using a separate virtual machine, network egress disabled by default, and connector credentials stored outside the sandbox. Administrators can control access by role and use the new Efficient mode to limit the experience to Sonnet and Haiku models, while also supporting spending limits at the organization, group, and member levels.

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, showcasing 5 community creative projects

Google releases new frontier model Gemini 4 Argon, stating it performs outstandingly on complex tasks such as coding, mathematics, and 3D world building, and surpasses other frontier models on benchmarks across multiple domains. The official showcase features 5 community projects, including a 3D Earth that maps wildfires and seismic activity in real time, a turbofan engine simulation with real-time data, a 3D carriage generated from a single image, and a multiplayer capture-the-flag browser game. The model has been widely available since last week.

What exactly are automakers aiming for by building humanoid robots?

Automakers building humanoid robots aim to incubate new businesses using the funding, real factory tasks, and supply chain capabilities of their automotive operations—first validating them in manufacturing and store scenarios, then pursuing external customers. Tesla's Optimus has already begun production at the Fremont factory, with external delivery targets still around the end of 2027, and plans to build 10,000 to 20,000 units for training; Figure 02 has accumulated more than 1,250 hours of operation at BMW's factory, and a forearm failure prompted a wrist structure change in the third generation. Hyundai controls Boston Dynamics, XPeng develops IRON in-house, and Mojia leverages Chery's channels—the approaches differ, but whether internal trials can translate into sustained paying external customers remains to be verified.

Claude Platform now generally available on Google Cloud, operated by Anthropic

Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic-hosted) is now generally available. Google Cloud customers can use the full Claude Platform capabilities with their existing IAM credentials, billing, and committed use discounts, and new features and betas launch on the same day as the native Claude Platform. This version supports Claude Managed Agents (beta), code execution, computer use, Agent skills, MCP connector, Prompt caching, and other capabilities, and provides Claude Console; Claude Fable 5.1, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and Haiku 5.5 are already available, and Claude Opus 5.5's Fast Mode delivers up to 2.5x faster output speed, with input and output pricing at $8 and $40 per million tokens. Anthropic operates this service as the data processor and currently offers US and global endpoints; customers who require Google as the data processor or have regional data residency requirements can still choose the Google-hosted version.

Anthropic shares when to fold subagents into the main agent loop

In comparisons across multiple enterprise deployments, Anthropic's Applied AI team found that a single agent with skills often outperforms subagent architectures in quality, with lower per-task cost and latency, and presents a migration method for folding subagents into the main loop. The article notes that subagents remain suitable for scenarios where context bloat degrades performance, independent tasks need to be processed in parallel, or tool selection conflicts with instructions, and recommends first treating subagents as tool calls, then converting them one by one into skills and MCP tools, using end-to-end evaluations to compare performance before and after. The article mentions that Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models has been reduced by over 80%, accompanied by Claude API skills such as build-eval, prompt-audit, hillclimb, and cost-optimize.

Anthropic Opens Claude Duet Research Preview: An Agentic App That Can Proactively Execute Tasks

Anthropic has opened the Claude Duet research preview, an agentic app built on Claude Opus 5.5 that can proactively advance tasks. It is now available on iOS, Android, and claude.ai for Pro and Max users in the United States, who must join a waitlist. Every morning it pushes a cross-app highlights briefing, and it can continuously execute tasks in the background; it requires user approval before sending messages, making payments, signing documents, or deleting, and securities trading and transfers between accounts are not permitted even with approval. Claude Duet can invoke more than 6,000 connectors and plugins in the Claude Marketplace, and it follows the credential-handling approach of Claude Managed Agents, never directly touching users' passwords or login tokens.

Google AI and Prune Nourry Recreate Lost Workshops of Women Sculptors

Artist Prune Nourry, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, used Google generative AI and image editing models to reconstruct the lost workshops of 19th-century Parisian women sculptors such as Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Jane Poupelet, and Camille Claudel, and built a custom tool based on Gemini to generate walkable 3D models from archival photographs. The project is accompanied by a 10-minute documentary honoring 18 women sculptors overlooked by art history. The "Visionaries" exhibition will be on view at the Petit Palais in Paris from October 20, 2026, to January 30, 2027.

e-Conomy SEA Report: Southeast Asia's Digital Economy to Reach $1 Trillion by 2035

The 11th edition of the e-Conomy SEA report, released by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company, forecasts that Southeast Asia's digital economy GMV will grow 17% year-on-year to $368 billion in 2026 and surpass $1 trillion by 2035. Generative AI is already used daily by 243 million people in Southeast Asia, growing four times faster than the mobile internet, and the report projects that regional AI usage will grow 60-fold over the next five years. 75% of users are willing to let AI agents compare prices and complete transactions on their behalf, but the region will need to expand data center capacity roughly threefold over the next five years to support computing demand.

Arda Industries raises $232 million to make production lines easier to adjust with AI

Arda Industries officially launched with $232 million in funding, led by Accel, Altimeter, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, with participation from XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, SVAngel and Felicis. The company's co-founder and CEO is Bob McGrew, former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI. Its platform lets users upload product blueprints and then automatically plan production lines, determine which robots to use and generate visual work instructions. Its current customers are concentrated in defense and data center electronics; Anduril uses it to optimize production lines. The company's long-term plan is to enter the consumer electronics market and develop AI agents that can adapt to new equipment within days.

Google Brings Gemini and Personal Intelligence to Global In-Car Scenarios

Google announced that Gemini is now available globally on Android Auto and in cars with Google built in, and has begun rolling out Personal Intelligence, which, with authorization, can connect to Workspace (including Gmail and Google Calendar), Google Photos, Google Maps, YouTube, and Search to answer questions such as flight gate numbers, restaurants along the route, and locations in photos. Personal Intelligence begins rolling out on Android Auto today, with cars with Google built in to follow over the coming months. It is currently available to eligible personal Google accounts for users aged 18 and over, excludes Workspace business, enterprise, and education users, and is not available in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, or Nigeria.

Google launches a small business hub and brand and finance tools for Gemini

Google has launched a business landing page for Gemini aimed at small business owners, where they can manage branding, finances, and customer insights, and connect Google Business Profile, Google Ads, Google Workspace, as well as third-party apps such as Adobe, Canva, Dropbox, Shopify, Wix, Zoho, and Xero. Users can define their brand style by uploading their website, brand kit, fonts, or color palettes, and with Nano Banana 2.1 generate marketing visuals with a consistent style; Gemini can also turn spreadsheets, receipts, and purchase records into financial charts and interactive models. These features will roll out gradually worldwide to all Gemini app users over the coming days.

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How an Anthropic Japan BDR Uses a Team of Claude Agents to Handle Daily Work

An Anthropic Japan business development representative used Claude Managed Agents (beta) to build an agent team called Nakama, handing lead triage, qualification, email drafting, Salesforce updates, and post-meeting follow-up to 6 agents that run on a schedule, completing most of the work before the start of each day. He first prototyped it in Claude using skills, scheduled tasks, and a shared folder; after migrating, skills became system prompts, the shared folder became memory storage, and changes are proposed uniformly in a Slack channel and synced by a coordinating agent roughly every 15 minutes.

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Google Arts & Culture app gets 15th anniversary update, adding AI conversational search and experimental features

On its 15th anniversary, the Google Arts & Culture app is rolling out a redesigned version whose centerpiece is a brand-new conversational search that lets users ask questions in natural language and receive answers accompanied by images and curated stories. The new homepage is consolidated into a single feed and adds two AI experiments: Chrono Look, for virtually trying on historical clothing, and Dial-an-Artist, which simulates conversations with historical artists. City Guide adds 27 global destinations. The app is rolling out worldwide on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

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