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Microsoft is expanding Copilot in Word with new features aimed at professionals in legal, finance, and compliance workflows. According to the company, the update is designed to make AI-assisted document editing more transparent, reviewable, and easier to manage in regulated environments.
Anthropic has introduced a new Fast Mode for Claude, offering significantly lower latency at a substantially higher cost. For Claude Opus 4.6, Fast Mode is priced at up to six times the standard rate.
OpenAI is in talks with the Abu Dhabi–based company G42 about developing a custom version of ChatGPT for the United Arab Emirates, according to Semafor. The tailored version would support local Arabic dialects, reflect local political perspectives, and include specific content restrictions—initially for use by the UAE government.
Waymo has unveiled a generative simulation model for autonomous driving based on Google DeepMind’s Genie 3. It is designed to generate hyper-realistic scenarios that would be extremely rare—or nearly impossible—to observe in the real world.
“Every company is now an API company, whether it wants to be or not,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, quoting a line that has particularly stuck with him in recent weeks. He made the remark while discussing the impact of generative AI on existing software business models.
lphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft plan to spend a combined $610 billion on data centers and AI infrastructure in 2026—about 70% more than in 2025, Bloomberg reports. Amazon is set to invest $200 billion, Microsoft $180 billion, Meta $125 billion, and Alphabet $105 billion. For each company, this exceeds the total of their budgets from the past three years combined.
Apple is scaling back its plans for an AI-powered virtual health coach codenamed “Mulberry,” Bloomberg reports. Instead of launching it as a standalone product, the company plans to roll out some of the originally planned features individually within the Health app.
Anthropic’s safety training fails when Claude operates a graphical user interface
A new AI product launched by Anthropic triggered a massive sell-off across global markets, wiping out an estimated $285 billion in market capitalization on Tuesday, February 3. The sharp decline hit companies across the software, financial and legal information services, and asset management sectors, according to Bloomberg
Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.6, a new flagship model. For the first time, it features a one-million-token context window, and is designed to locate relevant information in very large documents far more reliably than previous models.