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Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop computing market and intensifying a remarkable corporate realignment that has seen Microsoft embrace a direct competitor to its longtime AI partner, OpenAI.The Windows launch arrives with what Anthropic calls "full feature parity" with the macOS version: file access, multi-step task execution, plugins, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) connec
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One Air Force base's new mandated greetings for security personnel saw backlash, with troops and civilian workers calling them 'stupid.' Read more âș
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Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety [âŠ] Read more âș
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Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks. Read more âș
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The Legacy of Kain franchise might be one of the most beloved cult franchises in gaming (for Millennial goths with an English degree, like myself, at least). The dark fantasy action-adventure series kicked off with Blood Omen back in 1996, and followed that up with Soul Reaver in 1999, before a three-year run of Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, and Legacy of Kain: Defiance rounded off the series for... Read more âș
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Sonyâs first State of Play stream of the year included an update on Mina the Hollower, the latest title from Shovel Knight studio Yacht Club Games. Itâs now slated to arrive sometime this spring. The developer initially planned to release the retro-style action-adventure platformer on Halloween last year, but delayed it to âto apply some final polish and balancing to make the game truly shine.âWhile Mina the Hollower didnât make... Read more âș
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Spotify's best developers haven't written a single line of code since December, the company's co-CEO revealed. Read more âș
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Coming off the success of Slient Hill f, which moved the seriesâ psychological horror to the Japanese countryside, Konami, Annapurna Interactive and developer Screen Burn Interactive have chosen a foggy island as the setting for Silent Hill: Townfall.The first gameplay trailer for Townfall, introduced during Sonyâs latest State of Play, follows Simon Ordell, a man who keeps mysteriously waking up in the water off the coast of the empty island... Read more âș
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This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is shredding the federal governmentâs ability to fight climate change. What happened? On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced the end of [âŠ] Read more âș
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During its State of Play livestream on Thursday, Sony revealed the first PlayStation Plus Game Catalog addition for February and it's a doozy. Marvelâs Spider-Man 2 will finally websling its way onto the Game Catalog on February 17. Marvelâs Spider-Man 2 was released in October 2023, and Insomniac's third Spidey game is the the best of the bunch. You can play as both Peter Parker and his protĂ©gĂ© Miles Morales.... Read more âș
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Sumptuous 2021 action-adventure Kena: Bridge of Spirits is getting a sequel, despite previous work from its developer suggesting otherwise, and it's coming to PlayStation 5 and PC later this year. Read more Read more âș
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Young cancer patients can land in medical debt from lost wages, missed promotions, and steep costs. The first year of treatment can cost $45,000. Read more âș
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Words like "frame mogging" and "jestermaxxing" are suddenly everywhere online. It's not just organic â people make money spreading these trends. Read more âș
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Last year marked 20 years since God of War hit the PlayStation 2 and kicked off one of gaming biggest franchises. Now, at the tail end of that 20th anniversary celebration, Sonyâs Santa Monica Studio has announced two new project. First, and most significantly, the original God of War trilogy from the PS2 and PS3 is being remade for the modern era. Thereâs no footage of it yet â the... Read more âș
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TechRadar exclusively reveals Hasbroâs new Star Wars: The Vintage Collection wave inspired by The Mandalorian & Grogu, including a deluxe Mandalorian & Grogu figure, Imperial Remnant AT-RT and troopers, and IG-11 ahead of the film's 2026 premiere. Read more âș
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If you spent your childhood being the responsible older sister who managed everything from homework help to household peace, those early caregiving experiences likely shaped you into an adult with unique traits that psychology is only now beginning to understand. Read more âș
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President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal bedrock for the agency's actions against planet-warming pollution. Read more âș
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Itâs been less than three months since we got our first look at Control Resonant, the sequel to Remedyâs mind-bending, third-person adventure that introduced us to Jesse Faden and the Federal Bureau of Control. At todayâs State of Play event, we got to see the first extended bit of gameplay from Control Resonant â and the combat looks as inspired as ever, though the setting is completely new.As we learned... Read more âș
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Fraud protection is a race against scale. For instance, Mastercardâs network processes roughly 160 billion transactions a year, and experiences surges of 70,000 transactions a second during peak periods (like the December holiday rush). Finding the fraudulent purchases among those â without chasing false alarms â is an incredible task, which is why fraudsters have been able to game the system. But now, sophisticated AI models can probe down to... Read more âș
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The rapid viral adoption of Austrian developer Peter Steinberger's open source AI assistant OpenClaw in recent weeks has sent enterprises and indie developers into a tizzy.It's easy to easy why: OpenClaw is freely available now and offers a powerful means of autonomously completing work and performing tasks across a user's entire computer, phone, or even business with natural language prompts that spin up swarms of agents. Since its release in... Read more âș
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The "OpenClaw moment" represents the first time autonomous AI agents have successfully "escaped the lab" and moved into the hands of the general workforce. Originally developed by Austrian engineer Peter Steinberger as a hobby project called "Clawdbot" in November 2025, the framework went through a rapid branding evolution to "Moltbot" before settling on "OpenClaw" in late January 2026. Unlike previous chatbots, OpenClaw is designed with "hands"âthe ability to execute shell... Read more âș
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Anthropic released its Claude Cowork AI agent software for Windows on Monday, bringing the file management and task automation tool to roughly 70 percent of the desktop computing market and intensifying a remarkable corporate realignment that has seen Microsoft embrace a direct competitor to its longtime AI partner, OpenAI.The Windows launch arrives with what Anthropic calls "full feature parity" with the macOS version: file access, multi-step task execution, plugins, and... Read more âș
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Presented by F5As enterprises pour billions into GPU infrastructure for AI workloads, many are discovering that their expensive compute resources sit idle far more than expected. The culprit isn't the hardware. Itâs the often-invisible data delivery layer between storage and compute that's starving GPUs of the information they need."While people are focusing their attention, justifiably so, on GPUs, because they're very significant investments, those are rarely the limiting factor," says... Read more âș
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When enterprises fine-tune LLMs for new tasks, they risk breaking everything the models already know. This forces companies to maintain separate models for every skill.Researchers at MIT, the Improbable AI Lab and ETH Zurich have developed a new technique that enables large language models to learn new skills and knowledge without forgetting their past capabilities.Their technique, called self-distillation fine-tuning (SDFT), allows models to learn directly from demonstrations and their own... Read more âș
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A team of researchers led by Nvidia has released DreamDojo, a new AI system designed to teach robots how to interact with the physical world by watching tens of thousands of hours of human video â a development that could significantly reduce the time and cost required to train the next generation of humanoid machines.The research, published this month and involving collaborators from UC Berkeley, Stanford, the University of Texas... Read more âș
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Today's AI challenge is about agent coordination, context, and collaboration. How do you enable them to truly think together, with all the contextual understanding, negotiation, and shared purpose that entails? It's a critical next step toward a new kind of distributed intelligence that keeps humans firmly in the loop.At the latest stop on VentureBeat's AI Impact Series, Vijoy Pandey, SVP and GM of Outshift by Cisco, and Noah Goodman, Stanford... Read more âș
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In a major milestone for the "AI coding wars," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on X that the company's standalone Codex application (currently only for Mac computers) surpassed 1 million downloads in its first week of availability, echoing the explosive growth of OpenAI's hit chatbot ChatGPT after it first launched in late 2022.The surge reflects a 60% week-over-week growth in overall Codex users, following the February 2 launch of the... Read more âș
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Presented by EdgeVerveBefore addressing Global Business Services (GBS), letâs take a step back. Can agentic AI, the type of AI able to take goal-driven action, transform not just GBS but any kind of enterprise? And has it done so yet? As with many new technologies, rhetoric has outpaced deployment in this case. While 2025 was âsupposed to be the year of agentic AI,â it didnât turn out that way, according... Read more âș
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