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Anthropic is late to the party, but as of today the company has a personal agent to match the likes of Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. As part of a new “research” preview, the company on Wednesday announced Claude Duet. “It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working even when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf,” Anthropic says of Duet. For now, you’ll need to join a waitlist that’s only open to Claude subscribers in the US to try the new tool. Like OpenAI,…

Compare the best data integration tools, understand ETL, ELT, iPaaS, APIs, and CDC, and learn which functions and benefits matter when choosing a platform. The sales dashboard says there are 412 active customers. Finance says 396. Customer success has 431. Nobody is misleading anyone. Each team counts from a different system, using a different definition at a different time. A meeting about retention becomes a debate over which number deserves trust. This is the part of data integration that product pages tend to skip. Moving data is technical. Agreeing on what it means is organizational. Good integration also makes disagreement…

It feels a bit weird to be writing about Oppo’s new Find X10 Pro Max flagship phone. I only reviewed the company’s last flagship, the Find X9 Ultra, back in June. But as the larger number in the name suggests, the X10 Pro Max is the first of Oppo’s next generation of Android phones, packing a whole suite of new tech, from fancy new camera sensors to the new MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro chip.  I’ve been testing it for the past week or so, and there’s no question it’s a powerhouse phone that’s well worthy of its flagship title. But…

Jensen Huang outlined his vision of Europe’s future at Nvidia’s global conference in Berlin on Wednesday. It consists of robotics, AI agents, and modular data centers, with Nvidia unsurprisingly powering it all.“To be part of this AI economy, you don’t want to just be consuming the AI. You want to be producing the AI,” he told the 4,000-strong crowd at Nvidia’s GTC. “We can do all of that here in Europe.”The last GTC, held in San Jose, California, in March, was all about AI inference and more efficient compute. Seven months later, the focus has switched to power, agents, and…

An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc., which builds complex models of air traffic and energy grids, said today it has scored $325 million in a Series C funding, bringing its valuation to a cool $3 billion. The round was led by Spark Capital and joined by participants including Citadel Securities, Craft Ventures, Meritech Capital, Energy Impact Partners and Andreessen Horowitz. The startup, which used to be known as Air Space Intelligence, is an AI company that develops frontier models designed to model physical reality and simulate future scenarios, so that its customers can plan and orchestrate how they operate…

[This is a sponsored article with Enterprise Singapore.] For many F&B businesses, technology is often associated with digital ordering systems, delivery platforms, or point-of-sale software.  But for Yong Yi Sung, the next major shift is less about putting restaurants online and more about using technology to fundamentally change how they operate. Sung is the co-founder and CEO of Grain, a Singapore F&B company that has been around for more than a decade. The business started out as an online restaurant and catering business, and has since grown into a business serving both individual and corporate customers. Now, Sung is looking…

Figma expands its MCP support despite Dylan Field’s warnings. Figma just announced 20 new partners for Anthropic’s MCP at Config India, including Notion, Linear, and Mistral. Yet co-founder Dylan Field remains refreshingly skeptical. Even as Figma expands its integration with the open-source data standard, Field openly admits that MCP is far from perfect- and he is right. Standardization sounds great on paper. Everyone wants an open ecosystem where AI agents seamlessly access external files, design canvases, and enterprise tools. However, raw openness creates immediate security nightmares. Exposing entire company workspaces to autonomous AI agents opens massive vectors for data abuse.…

The Paul G. Allen Center on the University of Washington’s Seattle campus, home to the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, which a university task force has recommended separating from the College of Engineering. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) University of Washington leaders are weighing whether to separate the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering from the broader College of Engineering, after a task force recommended the move as part of proposed changes to UW’s computing and AI programs. The split would give new independence to what has become one of the world’s leading schools for computer science…

Unless you live under a rock with a bag on your head and your fingers in your ears (which kind of sounds heavenly at this point, if I’m being honest), you’ve probably seen or heard of the Rocco smart fridge, a retro-looking wine cooler/minifridge that keeps a catalog of its contents, so you can know what’s inside no matter where you are.Former WIRED contributor Andrew Watman reviewed it for us in 2024, giving it a solid 7 out of 10 and confirming that it is every bit the statement piece it’s designed to be. I own one as well, and…

A firmware exploit does not mean the game can be pirated, though. Rockstar Games Sony’s latest PlayStation 5 firmware (14.10.00) appears to have been cracked, based on a video shared by a developer named “Gezine” on X. The video shows Gezine navigating through the PS5’s hidden Debug Settings, menus that are typically only available if you have kernel-level access to the console’s operating system. A possible exploit for the PS5’s latest firmware is notable both because Sony released the software update in October, and because the firmware is reportedly necessary to play the year’s biggest release.…