Anthropic is pushing AI coding assistants into the place developers already live all day: team chat.  On December 8, 2025, the company announced a beta “research preview” that brings Claude Code into Slack, letting developers delegate real coding tasks directly from a conversation thread instead of bouncing between Slack and an IDE. The shift matters because the competitive edge is starting to look less like raw model quality and more like workflow ownership, meaning who can

Nvidia is accelerating its push into what it calls physical AI by unveiling new open AI models and developer tools designed to advance autonomous driving and robotics research.  The centerpiece of this launch is Alpamayo R1, an open reasoning vision language model that the company describes as the first action-oriented model tailored specifically for autonomous driving. By combining visual perception with language-based reasoning, Alpamayo R1 allows vehicles to interpret the