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Anthropic releases proactive AI agent Claude Duet, based on Claude Opus 5.5, running in a virtual machine with an independent browser, able to monitor email, calendars, and business software on its own and handle tasks in the background. The service is first available in preview to Pro and Max subscribers in the United States, requires joining a waitlist, and can be used via the iOS and Android apps and claude.ai. Duet connects to more than 6000 connectors and plugins, including Gmail, Slack, Qu

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Microsoft's research team published in the journal Science an AI diagnostic tool powered by GPT-5, which achieved a diagnostic accuracy of about 83% on complex cases selected from the New England Journal of Medicine, compared with about 36% for general practitioners with reference materials and about 22% without them. Through a mechanism called the "Diagnostic Coordinator," the tool simulates multiple clinical experts analyzing cases collaboratively, deciding step by step which medical history t

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Warp Sciences, an AI scientific research startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, has emerged from stealth, completing a $215 million Series A funding round at a post-money valuation of $865 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company, founded in San Francisco with a team of about 20 people, plans to use AI, robotics, and automated laboratories to help pharmaceutical companies screen molecular variants in drug development, without developing drugs itself. T

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The two authors, who headed the EPA under the Biden administration and FERC under the Trump administration, argue that data center development has outpaced regulatory rules, communities are pushing back over electricity costs, pollution, water resources and noise, and grid operators are issuing reliability warnings. They contend that a simple "no" is not the answer; instead, drawing on the historical experience of the 1926 Air Commerce Act, a federal framework should be established that balances

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AI has permeated every earnings call and boardroom deck, with enterprise generative AI spending reaching $30 billion to $40 billion in 2025, yet productivity statistics show almost no change. The only exception is data center construction: in 2025, hyperscalers invested more than $300 billion in data centers, chips, and power grids, which is already counted in GDP as private nonresidential fixed investment. The author believes AI will not take 15 years to show up in productivity data the way com

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Twilio CMO Chris Koehler said that the marketing team's research and personalized content creation for a single customer used to take more than two weeks, but now takes less than a day, and quarterly account-based marketing campaigns increased from 3 to up to 15. He divided enterprise AI implementation into three stages: individual efficiency, team collaboration, and end-to-end autonomy, and said Twilio is currently in the second stage. He also pointed out that brand consistency, data governance

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MiniMax open-sources M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE with 23B activated parameters, gaining day-one support from Together, SGLang, vLLM and NVIDIA NeMo. OpenAI's Decisions API is officially available, powered by GPT-6 Luna, with classification and decision speed improved by up to 10x, at an input price of $0.10 per million tokens. Anthropic's Claude models are officially available on Google Cloud, and starting next week, Claude sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans will run in auto mode by defaul

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In a 45-minute conversation, Sam Altman said that OpenAI's not-yet-public models have reached a level in some mathematical research tasks that existing public models find hard to match, and he expects to find the first candidate treatment for a major disease in about two years. He said programmers have not lost their jobs because of AI; instead they are busier, creating greater value and even earning more, because the world's demand for software far exceeds expectations; he himself has not looke

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Google CEO Pichai revealed in the "Sources" interview that Gemini 4 Argon processed about 25 trillion tokens in 72 hours of launch, 3 times that of Gemini 3.0 in the same period, and is still rate-limited due to compute constraints. He explained for the first time the reason for cutting Gemini 3.5 Pro: the team found a gap in the model on Agentic Coding, first used the Flash version to complete intensive iterations from 3.5 to 3.8 in about 3 months, while Argon pretraining had already been compl

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The EU has launched a cloud sovereignty framework, using 48 criteria to assess cloud service providers' degree of sovereignty in legal control, data, operations and supply chains, and plans to extend sovereignty assessments to public-sector cloud services through the Cloud and AI Development Act. In April this year, a European consortium led by Belgium's Proximus won the EU sovereign cloud procurement contract; the Google Cloud technology operated by S3NS that it uses therefore meets the require

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In an October 22 research note, TS Lombard Chief Macro Strategist Dario Perkins projected that the AI capital expenditure boom could end in early 2028, with the S&P 500 falling 30%, tech stocks plunging 40%, and about $20 trillion in market value evaporating. The report argues that current AI revenue growth mainly comes from the capital expenditure cycle among tech giants and debt financing, and lists six chain-reaction triggers: revenue falling short of expectations, rising credit risk, depreci

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Microsoft announced the launch of its AI diagnostic system, Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), which simulates a multidisciplinary expert consultation by orchestrating multiple AI agents. In an evaluation based on common cases from U.S. emergency departments using the MIMIC-IV-ED dataset, its diagnostic accuracy was 1.7 times that of human physicians; in a simulated evaluation based on complex cases from The New England Journal of Medicine, it achieved 83% accuracy, compared with 36

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Microsoft announced the launch of the AI diagnostic system MAI-DxO (Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator), which simulates a multidisciplinary expert consultation of physicians by uniformly orchestrating multiple AI agents. In a simulated evaluation based on complex NEJM cases, its diagnostic accuracy reached 83%, compared with 36% for primary care general practitioners and general internists who could independently consult reference materials; in an evaluation of common U.S. emergency departmen

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Colossal Biosciences founder Ben Lamm and Anduril founder Palmer Luckey have co-founded defense technology startup Warhound, emerging from stealth with a $200 million seed round. The CEO is former Pentagon Chief Data Officer David Spirk, and the company is based in Texas. Warhound plans to preserve genetic samples from fully trained military working dogs, clone them, and perform targeted gene editing, while integrating Anduril's protective gear and Eagle Eye system. Lamm said the first dogs are

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Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs estimates in a report that if AI ultimately raises productivity in the United States and other developed economies by 15%, up to 9% of workers could be displaced during the AI transition, with another 3% of employment affected by slower hiring, totaling about 1 in every 11 people. He points out that historically, the labor impact of automation has been limited when the economy is healthy and tends to accelerate during economic slowdowns, so AI-related layoff

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Former OpenAI science lead Wei Er and three co-founders founded Warp Sciences, raising $215 million and planning to establish a chemistry contract research organization in the United States to provide molecule synthesis and testing services for drug discovery teams. In its first phase, the company will focus on synthesizing analogs for lead compound optimization; clients decide which molecules to study and retain control of their drug programs, and Warp will not develop its own drug pipeline. To

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The Agentic AI Foundation announced on October 22, 2026 the addition of four hosted projects: Agent Skills contributed by Anthropic, Open Responses contributed by OpenAI, OpenEnv contributed by Hugging Face, and OpenSandbox contributed by Alibaba, bringing the total number of hosted projects from 3 at its founding in December 2025 to 10. The four projects correspond to four layers: agents acquiring skills, applications invoking models across vendors, agent training and evaluation, and secure age

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Warp Sciences has emerged from stealth with $215 million in funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from IVP, Mayfield, Lux, Premji Invest, Menlo Ventures and others, to build a U.S.-based chemistry contract research organization (CRO) that combines chemists, AI and robots. The company is led by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil and enters through analog synthesis in the lead compound optimization stage, charging per delivered compound and not charging if nothing is produced,

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Microsoft has announced the research results of its AI diagnostic tool Diagnostic Orchestrator, which uses multiple AI agents to collaboratively reason about symptoms, decide on tests, and provide diagnoses, and is based on OpenAI's GPT-5. In tests drawn from hundreds of case reports from the New England Journal of Medicine, the system's diagnostic accuracy was about 83%, compared with about 36% for general practitioners who used reference materials and about 22% for those who did not; on emerge

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