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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.
After OpenAI stepped in to take over Anthropic’s Pentagon deal, the ChatGPT maker has faced sharp internal and external criticism.
Cybersecurity firm OpenZeppelin has audited OpenAI’s new AI benchmark, EVMbench, and identified methodological flaws as well as data contamination issues.
Researchers at Georgetown University have analyzed thousands of procurement requests issued by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The documents reveal how broadly Beijing is already testing artificial intelligence for military use—from drone swarms and deepfake tools to autonomous decision-making systems.
Artificial Analysis has released version 2.0 of its AA-WER speech-to-text benchmark, which measures the accuracy of speech recognition models. In the overall ranking, ElevenLabs’ Scribe v2 takes first place with a word error rate of just 2.3%.
AI search engine Perplexity has introduced two new text-embedding models that aim to match or outperform Google’s and Alibaba’s offerings while using only a fraction of the usual memory footprint. Both models are open source.
Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude is gaining new features in its Cowork desktop application. Users can now set up scheduled tasks that Claude will execute automatically at specified times, such as a morning briefing, weekly spreadsheet updates, or Friday presentations for the team
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has reaffirmed the company’s position in a public statement
Anthropic has softened a key safety policy, saying it needs to stay competitive. At the same time, the company is under pressure from the Pentagon, which is demanding permission to use AI for surveillance of U.S. citizens and for creating autonomous weapons.
Anthropic is expanding Claude’s agentic office capabilities, allowing the model to switch autonomously between Excel and PowerPoint — for example, running an analysis in a spreadsheet and directly turning the results into a presentation. At the same time, Anthropic is extending Cowork for Enterprise customers with private plugin marketplaces, enabling administrators to curate and distribute custom plugin collections to specific teams. These plugins turn Claude into specialized AI agents for different departments, with new templates covering HR, design, engineering, finance, and wealth management.