Anthropic has released Cowork, a new feature that runs agentic workflows on local files for non coding tasks currently available in research preview inside the Claude macOS desktop app. What Cowork Does At The File System Level Cowork currently runs as a dedicated mode in the Claude desktop app. ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) observability refers to the ability to understand, monitor, and evaluate AI systems by tracking their unique metrics—such as token usage, response quality, latency, and model drift. Unlike traditional software, large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI ...

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Sodium-ion batteries are making their way into cars—and the grid For decades, lithium-ion batteries have powered our phones, laptops, and electric vehicles. But ...

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf ...

Among all the tools that a data scientist has, it is difficult to find one that has received a reputation as an effective and trustworthy tool like XGBoost. It was even mentioned in the winning solution of machine learning competitions on a site such as Kaggle, which you have probably visited. This ...

Prompt engineering isn’t about creating elaborate prompts. It’s about developing the judgment to choose the right structure, logic, and level of control for a given task. This article gives you 40 scenario-based questions and answers that reflect real decisions you make when working with LLMs in ...

Can AI shopping agents move beyond sending product links and actually complete trusted purchases end to end inside a chat? Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP, is Google’s new open standard for agentic commerce. It gives AI agents and merchant systems a shared language so that a shopping query can ...

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.The ...

Agentic browsing is quickly becoming mainstream. People don’t just want AI agents to research products anymore. They want agents to actually buy things for them: compare options, place orders, handle payments, and complete the entire transaction. That’s where things started to break. Today’s ...

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How do you design an LLM agent that decides for itself what to store in long term memory, what to keep in short term context and what to discard, without hand tuned heuristics or extra controllers? Can a single policy learn to manage both memory types through the same action space as text ...

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I decided to go to CES kind of at the last minute. Over the holiday break, contacts from China kept messaging me about their travel plans. After the umpteenth ...