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Claude Code and Cowork get computer use agent, works with phone

Code and Cowork from anywhere on your mobile phone; they now seamlessly hand off tasks. (Picture: Anthropic)

Anthropic’s most popular apps can now spin up an agent to use your computer to complete tasks — and you can even start it from your mobile.

Available as a research preview for Pro and Max subscribers, it will identify what tools it needs to complete a task, and then ask for connectors to, say, the Finder on the Mac or Chrome.

Anthropic warns that the feature is «still early» and can make mistakes, as well as having vulnerabilities to threats. It can also be slower than doing the thing yourself.

The feature works especially well with Dispatch, Anthropic says, a tool released last week to let you start a task from your mobile and finish it up on the computer.

With it, you can get Claude to check your emails in the morning, or pull updates from spreadsheets, or «spin up a Claude Code session» directly from your phone.

Read more: Anthropic’s announcement, Anthropic on Dispatch, and Engadget.

As OpenAI prepares to show ads to all Free and Go users, advertisers are giddy

Everyone on Free and Go plans will be getting ads before soon. (Picture: screenshot)

According to The Information (paywalled), OpenAI will soon stop its «experiment» in ads. They will go for a full advertising service in «the coming weeks,» reports Reuters.

That means the test with showing some ads to about 5% of users is coming to an end, and the full plan will start up just after easter.

The limited advertising has so far been a success. The main complaint from advertisers is that it’s going too slow, according to CNBC. Most of them are happy and ready to spend more — with more varied ads.

— We’re encouraged by early signals from users and participating brands, and continue to see strong interest from advertisers, OpenAI tells CNBC.

The advertising program on Free and Go tiers is expected to earn OpenAI about $1 billion per year, and usher in a third tier for advertisers in addition to Search, Social, and Retail.

Read more: The Information (paywalled), Reuters, and CNBC.

Labs are hiring experts to protect against «catastrophic misuse»

As their models grow more capable, so is the potential for WMD misuse — and AI labs want to be ahead of the curve. (Picture: Adobe)

Anthropic is hiring a weapons expert, the BBC reports.

The role is for someone with long, PhD level experience in «chemical weapons and/or explosives defence,» the LinkedIn post says.

It would be helpful if the person has an «understanding of radiological materials,» the posting goes on, and says the candidate will be «tackling critical problems in preventing catastrophic misuse.»

OpenAI is not far behind in worrying about these issues, and also has a job post open for much the same, but they are looking for someone with machine learning experience from red-teaming in order to safeguard their AI’s responses.

Using any AI for developing these kinds of weapons is of course against all the labs’ terms of use, but as the models grow more capable, they also need more safeguards.

Read more: Anthropic’s job post, OpenAI’s job post, writeups on the BBC and Mashable.

OpenAI plans to combine Codex, ChatGPT and Atlas in «super app»

Feeling that OpenAI has lost focus, attention turns to putting all eggs in one basket. (Picture: generated)

According to The Wall Street Journal, the new app will include agentic capabilities, and signals another step in the company’s recent quest to refocus on coding and business users.

The app will make it easier for teams within OpenAI to work together, the WSJ reports, and will help other users with productivity-related tasks, as they double down on enterprise users.

The standalone ChatGPT app will not be affected by the move, although the paper notes that OpenAI feels it has lost attention by focusing on «side quests» like the Sora app — now rumored to get included in ChatGPT proper.

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo will be leading the super app effort, and she tweets that:

— When new bets start to work, like we’re seeing now with Codex, it’s very important to double down on them and avoid distractions.

Read more: The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.

Amazon to buy one million Nvidia chips, focusing on inference and Groq

Nvidia’s newly released Groq 3 LPX servers are already in demand. (Picture: Amazon)

Nvidia Executive Ian Buck confirms to Reuters that the company will sell the chips to Amazon starting this year and closing in 2027.

The main focus on the deal is on inference workloads, the process of completing tasks and answers from an AI query — which is growing at pace with AI’s general expansion.

— Inference is hard. ⁠It’s wickedly hard, Buck told Reuters. — To be the best at inference, it is not a one chip pony. We actually use all seven chips.

Amazon is betting on a broad mix of chips, Reuters reports, and says in their press release that they are buying Blackwell and Vera Rubin chips.

From what Reuters understands, they will also be buying a number of the newly released Groq 3 LPX servers — which are optimized for inference and can do 700 million tokens per second.

Read more: Reuters report, Amazon press release.

Codex grows to 2 million weekly users, acquires Python developers Astral

With the popular developers joining, Codex moves in closer on the software stack. (Picture: Shutterstock)

While announcing that Codex had a 3x increase in users and 5x more actual usage this year, and are up to 2 million weekly active users, OpenAI says they are buying Python developer tool company Astral.

Some of the most beloved and, importantly, used Python developer tools come from the company, which will now be supported by OpenAI.

The deal for roughly 32 employees will strengthen Codex by integrating the tools that have «hundreds of millions of downloads per month,» according to Astral themselves.

OpenAI will continue to maintain the open source projects, and by gaining access to them — and the engineers’ knowhow — for Codex’s AI agents, they will be able to work more closely with the tools.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, Astral’s announcement, and CNBC.

«Vibe design» by Gemini — Google updates Stitch for the AI age

Design help from Google? If it floats your boat. (Picture Google)

Promising to let «anyone» create layouts with natural language prompts and turn them into «high-fidelity UI designs,» Stitch is supposed to let you «vibe design» your projects.

It is intended to let you «explore ideas quickly» with a «high quality outcome.»

The app can take input from text, images, or code, and provides you with an entire design language that you can pick and choose from, with an «infinite» canvas storing your ideas.

It should be equally good at designing for the web and apps, but does come out as somewhat boilerplate and generic.

I tried to get it to brainstorm a little about improving the design of this webpage, and the results were terrible, but it might be worth it for other projects.

The improved Stitch is available at stitch.withgoogle.com and can be accessed for free anywhere Gemini is available.

Read more: Google’s introduction, launch tweet.

OpenAI upgrades GPT-5.3-instant to be «less clickbait-y» in its responses

“If you want, I can also explain…”-clickbait should largely be gone from the model after the latest update. (Picture: generated)

5.3-instant is the model most people encounter on the Plus and Pro subscriptions on a daily basis. It was supposed to be «less cringe,» and offer «fewer lectures.»

But many had noticed that it had become filled with follow-up questions for simple queries, offering «one strange trick,» «would you like me to tell you three things that…» and «You’ll never believe…»

These teaser-style responses were not just annoying, but sometimes frustrating — as if the bot had become optimized for engagement and tried to keep the conversation going after already answering the query.

The good news is that as of March 16, 2026, OpenAI has upgraded the model to show less of this slop, and users should already be noticing an improvement in «follow-up tone.»

Read more: OpenAI’s update page, Android Headlines.

Anthropic surveys 81,000 people in 159 countries about their thoughts on AI

Most respondents hail AI for the learning experience, but some worry about agency and thinking less. (Picture: Anthropic)

Capturing a wide sentiment across the world, the survey also breaks down what people expect, and their fears and hopes on AI.

— For the first time, AI has enabled us to collect rich, open-ended interviews at extraordinary scale, Anthropic writes. — We believe this is the largest and most multilingual quantitative survey ever conducted.

It finds that the USA is most worried about the future with AI, while Brazil, India and most of Southeast Asia are generally positive toward it.

For what people expect and hope for from AI, the results are varied, but the top answer is «Professional excellence» (18.8%), «Personal transformation» 13.7%, and «Life management» at 13.5%.

The responses on whether AI actually delivered on any of those aspirations falls short, though — with 32% responding that it helped on productivity and 28.9%, in second place, saying that «AI hasn’t delivered.»

The survey found that, globally, 67% of respondents have a positive view of AI.

Read the full survey on Anthropic.

ChatGPT’s «adult mode» hotly debated at OpenAI, will be smutty, but not porn

There are several roadblocks for Adult Mode, should it ever come to pass. (Picture: generated)

According to The Wall Street Journal, the upcoming «adult mode» for ChatGPT is hitting some internal snags.

Touted by CEO Sam Altman as letting «adults be adults» in October 2025, it was later delayed and then deprioritized last week.

It now seems the company’s internal advisory board is against going forward with the feature, saying it could foster «unhealthy emotional dependence,» Mashable writes.

Also holding back the launch is the fact that ChatGPT’s age checks aren’t that good, and has a rather large error rate of 12% on identifying kids and teens, The Verge reports.

100 million under 18s use ChatGPT every week, which would mean that some 12 million of them could be classified as adults and exposed to «sexualized conversations.»

The feature is currently postponed due to «other priorities,» but is said to skirt images, voice and video for pure text, and will supposedly be «smutty,» not «pornographic,» the Verge says.

Read more: The Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Mashable and The Verge.

Google’s «Personal Intelligence» now available for free users in the U.S.

Shopping for a bag to go with your shoes? Google already knows. (Picture: Google)

It seems the tie-in between Google’s Calendar, Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search and Gemini has been popular — and they are now expanding the service to free users.

— People are appreciating the highly tailored help they’re getting in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, Google says.

Personal intelligence can be useful for anything that involves your history with Google, like searching for another pair of sneakers you already bought, shopping for a bag to go with said shoes — or are planning a travel itinerary based on past preferences.

You need to be signed into a personal Google account for it to work, and it is not available for Workspace business, Enterprise, or Education users, TechCrunch notes.

The feature is also explicitly opt-in, and you have to choose to turn it on. There are also granular controls for disabling each app or service, so you can opt out of having Gemini scour your previous web searches and use them in replies, for instance.

Read more: Google’s announcement, TechCrunch and 9to5Google.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano for Free and Go tiers

GPT-5.4-mini comes close to GPT-5.4 on accuracy and cost. (Picture: OpenAI)

Being about two times faster than the previous GPT-5-mini, the models offer solid coding performance for these tiers for the first time.

GPT-5.4-mini can be accessed today by choosing «Thinking» from the model picker on the Free and Pro tiers.

The model is stronger than 5-mini on reasoning, multimodal understanding, tool use and subagents, OpenAI says.

It is also available in Codex, where it uses only 30% of tokens for the same task compared to 5.4 proper — and is usable for workloads where latency and speed are important.

Also introduced today is GPT-5.4-nano, which is for the times when speed and cost matter most. It costs only $0.20/$1.25 per 1M tokens, and is handy for mass classification, ranking, coding subagents and compaction.

Nano doesn’t support web search or computer use, and is only available in the API.

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over copyright and trademarks

The jury is still out on copyright protections for training materials in AI chatbots. (Picture: Britannica)

The revered encyclopedia along with Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries has sued the ChatGPT maker for training on their data and producing «verbatim reproductions» of their content, Reuters reports.

This erodes their copyright, they claim, and «starves publishers of revenue,» because people get their answers directly in ChatGPT rather than getting referred to their websites, TechCrunch writes.

Britannica is also claiming that ChatGPT erodes its trademarks by producing hallucinations and attributing them to their products.

There have been a lot of copyright lawsuits since the early days of LLM chatbots, but only a few have been settled. One judgment is from the Anthropic case, where a judge found that training on copyrighted works was «no different than training schoolchildren to write well».

Other judges have been more skeptical.

Read more: Reuters, TechCrunch, Engadget.

Nvidia will sell $1 trillion of its AI chips by 2027, launches inference rack

The Groq 3 LPU has only 500 MB of memory, but it’s SRAM flying at 150 TB/s. (Picture: Nvidia)

The Blackwell and Rubin series of chips are selling like hotcakes, the Nvidia CEO says at the Games Developer Conference, as he doubles the previous guidance of $500 billion in sales and justifies a market valuation topping $4 trillion.

Huang’s most interesting offering at the show was the new Groq 3 LPX, a custom rack made for inference loads.

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After pivoting hard to AI content, BuzzFeed faces questions of survival

BuzzFeed was riding high in the 2010’s, but then pivoted to AI. Now, they worry about making it through the year. (Picture: generated)

BuzzFeed was once the darling publisher of the Internet, and became the first new media unicorn with a valuation as high as $1.7 billion around 2016.

Back then, it was hiring a new staffer every day, and developed a Pulitzer Prize winning newsroom.

Fast forward to January 2023 and CEO Jonah Peretti said the company would pivot hard to AI quizzes, and in April the same year, he shut down the newsroom and said that AI would replace most of the static content on the site, Futurism reports.

Three years later, the company’s quizzes didn’t take off and the AI content was underwhelming — leaving the company with a net loss of $57.3 million in 2025.

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