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A short news roundup for Friday

Google launches nother gemini preview, marginally better than the last one. — (Picture: Google)

Google has launched a slightly improved Gemini 2.5 Pro model, the 06-05, scoring moderately better on some benchmarks, and answering Ars Technica’s question on the color Magenta.

It should be available in the Gemini app, and also for free users, who get between three to ten questions per session. This is the model Google plans to take out of Preview as a stable, full model at a later time.

Google has started testing «talk to search» on Android and iOS. The feature lets you discuss and refine search results by clicking under the search bar in the Google app, by text or voice — and you can keep talking after leaving the app.

Anthropic blocks Windsurf access to Claude. Windsurf is an AI coding application that lets you choose which models to use, and the block comes «just weeks after Bloomberg reported that OpenAI was acquiring Windsurf.» «It would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI,» says Anthropic.

Anthropic opposes 10-year moratorium on state AI laws. In a New York Times op-ed, CEO Dario Amodei argues that AI is developing so fast that new laws might be needed well ahead of the ten-year mark currently being considered in the US Senate. «I believe that these systems could change the world, fundamentally, within two years; in 10 years, all bets are off,» he writes.

Reddit sues Anthropic for unauthorized data harvesting

Reddit inc. is suing Anthropic for illegally scraping its data. — Reddit has clear terms in its user agreement against AI scraping, and has made lucrative deals for it’s data.

The company, home to a valuable archive of 20 years of human exchanges, says Anthropic illegally copied from its archives at least 100 000 times.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday at the San Francisco superior court, claims Reddit reached out to Anthropic several times to discuss licensing issues with the scraping but found they «refused to engage.»

Not a white knight
The suit calls Anthropic a «late-blooming artificial intelligence company that bills itself as the white knight of the AI industry,» adding that «it is anything but.»

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Anthropic reaches $3 billion in revenue so far this year

Claude coding is delivering stellar results for Anthropic. — Sources say Anthropic’s revenue is growing exponentially. (Picture: Anthropic)

The company hit $1B in revenue in December last year, $2B in March and just jumped another billion in May, according to sources speaking to Reuters.

These numbers are so impressive, one analyst says they lack comparison:

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Anthropic CEO says it’s time to wake up on AI job losses

Dario Amodei from Anthropic.com — Anthropic’s Dario Amodei worries about entire job segments getting wiped out. (Picture: Anthropic)

As the job market already shows signs of tightening due do AI, Anthopic’s Dario Amodei brings a stern warning to the labs and the government.

— AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs, he tells Axios — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next five years.

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Anthropic claims world’s best coding AI with Claude 4 Opus and Sonnet

World's best coding model? According to Anthropic, yes, of course. — Anthopic’s new agentic, thinking and reasoning models are great for coding, and plays Pokemon for 24 hour runs. (Picture: Anthropic)

Opus 4 can sustain almost a full work day of focused coding work, while Sonnet 4 is supposed to be excellent for thinking and reasoning.

Both models produce near-instant responses to queries, but can turn to reasoning and thinking for more demanding requests.

World’s best on coding?
Anthropic claims Opus is «the world’s best coding model,» and it edges out Gemini 2.5 Pro, o3 and GTP 4.1 on SWE-bench Verified, but cannot surpass OpenAI’s o3 on certain PhD-level benchmarks, according to TechCrunch.

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Apple says considering AI search in Safari, but «not good enough yet»

Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused. (Picture: Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0)

In the Google antitrust remedies trial, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said they are «actively looking at» using AI search tools in Safari, writes Gizmodo.

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Anthropic: Virtual employees will arrive next year

Virtual employees are step uup mere agents, say Anthropic. — Virtual employees are a step up mere agents and could be roaming the offces pretty soon. (Picture: Anthropic)

In a recent interview with Axios focusing mostly on security issues, Anthropic said «virtual employees» will be a step up from using mere «agents» on corporate networks.

This will be the next AI innovation, said Jason Clinton, the company’s chief of information security.

Whereas agents can focus on specific, programmable tasks, acts with some autonomy and of course require oversight, a «virtual employee» takes it a step further, with having their own memories and their own corporate accounts and passwords.

This is a major headache for cybersecurity, Clinton further explained, about oversight and hackability of the new employees.

Go read the full story here – at Axios, and check out Anthropics research on agents.

Claude AI reveals surprising internal thinking, says Anthropic

The internal thinking of an AI has been mostly opaque before this study. (Image: Anthropic.)

Some people think large AI models are preprogrammed by lots of people, whereas the opposite is often true.

Training an LLM like Claude often consists of unmonitored consumption of huge amounts of data, with minimal human involvement.

— Language models like Claude aren’t programmed directly by humans, says Anthropic, — They arrive inscrutable to us, the model’s developers. This means that we don’t understand how models do most of the things they do, they add.

Tracing the thoughts of an LLM
Now they have set out to change that, with a couple of scientific studies mapping out the internal reasoning, or how the model actually thinks in response to normal prompts.

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Anthropic scores early copyright win in battle with music publishers

A US court has denied a coalition of record companies’, including Universal Music, request to keep music lyrics out of the training data for their AI, finding that no immediate harm had been proved.

This is just one of many lawsuits against AI companies claiming they copied and used copyrighted materials in training their models, that hinges on the fair use provision of the copyright laws

This resurfaced overnight after Chatgpt’s new image generator was used en masse to produce images in the style of Studio Ghibli, which had obviously been used in training the model in so far that it could easily mimic their style.

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