Anthropic’s Claude is quickly moving beyond the idea of a simple chatbot and toward a future where AI can understand a person’s work, habits, and needs before they even ask for help. Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, recently explained that the next major step for AI assistants will be “proactivity.” Instead of only responding when users type a prompt, future AI systems could recognize patterns, set up automations, and help with tasks before user

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, is reportedly considering one of the largest private funding rounds in technology history. The AI startup has received several preemptive offers to raise around $40 billion to $50 billion at a valuation between $850 billion and $900 billion. If completed, the deal would more than double Anthropic’s previous valuation of $380 billion from February and could place it at or above OpenAI’s recent private market valuation. Inv

Google is making a bigger play for developers and creators with a new update to Google AI Studio. The company has announced that Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now get higher usage limits in AI Studio, along with access to Nano Banana Pro and Gemini Pro models. The goal is to make it easier for people to move from an idea to a working application in minutes, while keeping costs more predictable. For users who have already exhausted the free tier, the update creates a sim

Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.5, a significant upgrade to its most capable AI model and one built specifically to excel at coding, professional workflows, and long-running agent tasks. Released shortly after updates to Google’s Gemini 3 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.1, the new model takes a different approach by focusing less on flashy content generation and more on dependable workplace performance (CNET). Anthropic says Opus 4.5 is designed for getting real work done, buildi

Microsoft’s GitHub has taken a significant step by allowing developers more choices in AI models for GitHub Copilot, the popular coding...