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Claude Cowork can now learn a task by watching you do it once. Anthropic’s new “Record a skill” option uses a screen recording plus voiceover to turn that workflow into a reusable skill for later.
The feature is rolling out in the Claude desktop app for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers. It’s aimed at repeat jobs like reports, spreadsheets, file sorting, and other work you usually have to explain step by step.
Anthropic is pushing Claude closer to a digital teammate, and this update cuts down on repetitive prompting. If you use Claude for routine work, this is one of the clearest signs it’s moving from chat to hands-on execution. #Claude #ClaudeCowork #Anthropic #Recordaskill #AIassistant #WorkflowAutomation #DesktopApp #Pro #Max #Team
Sources (Pcmag, Androidauthority, The-decoder)
Patreon is no longer just asking AI crawlers to stay away — it’s now blocking them with Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control tools.
The membership platform says the shift is meant to protect creator work from being used to train AI models without permission, after its earlier robots.txt-style requests weren’t enough.
Patreon says it will still allow indexers that help people find pages and send traffic back to the platform. A small change in policy, but a big signal for how creators may start pushing back across the web. #Patreon #Cloudflare #AICrawlControl #AIScraping #AIBots #CreatorEconomy #robots.txt #AItraining
Sources (Techcrunch, Stephenfollows, Newsbytesapp)
Claude Opus 5 is here, and Anthropic says it lands close to Fable 5 while costing half as much. The company says the new model is built for coding, research, and everyday knowledge work, with pricing set at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Anthropic also says Opus 5 is its strongest model on Claude Pro and the new default on Claude Max. It adds effort settings so users can trade off speed, cost, and capability on a task-by-task basis.
The company is clearly pushing value as much as raw power here, while still keeping stronger cyber-focused protections on the more sensitive side of its model lineup. Follow AIFreeForever for more AI model launches, pricing moves, and product shifts.
#ClaudeOpus5 #Anthropic #Fable5 #ClaudePro #ClaudeMax #AImodels #AImodels #coding #knowledgework
Sources (Anthropic, Cnbc, Fortune)
BMW is bringing its vehicle configurator into ChatGPT, letting shoppers describe what they want in plain language and get model and trim suggestions from BMW’s product data.
OpenAI is rolling out Health in ChatGPT to logged-in U.S. users 18 and older on web and iOS, across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans. With permission, it can connect Apple Health and supported medical records so ChatGPT can put your results and routines into context.
The idea is to help people compare test results, track changes since a prior appointment, and make sense of sleep, activity, workouts, and medical notes without re-explaining everything each time.
OpenAI says the health data and the conversations that use it won’t be used to train its foundation models or target ads, and the company says Health isn’t available in Codex yet. #OpenAI #ChatGPT #HealthinChatGPT #AppleHealth #medicalrecords #healthAI #AIprivacy #UScurrently
Sources (Openai, Howtogeek)
Uber has cut about 10% of its Community Operations staff, the team behind customer service, while telling remote workers to move back into office hubs three days a week.
The company says it wants to simplify operations, improve in-person collaboration, and keep pushing AI deeper into support work. It’s the first time Uber has linked layoffs directly to an AI efficiency push.
The move comes less than two months after another round of cuts, as Uber reshapes teams and slows hiring while it keeps recruiting in other areas. Follow AIFreeForever for more on how AI is changing real jobs inside big tech. #Uber #CommunityOperations #CustomerService #ArtificialIntelligence #AIOperations #TechJobs #Layoffs #ReturnToOffice #BusinessTech
Sources (Businesstimes, Cmswire, Newsbytesapp)
China has put new limits on AI companion apps that mimic human personalities and emotional bonds, and the rules now bar virtual partners or relatives for minors.
The measures took effect on July 15 and also require platforms to avoid content that can fuel emotional dependence, unsafe behavior, or damage real-world relationships.
That shift hit fast: ByteDance and Alibaba pulled or shut down companion features, while some apps gave users a short window to move chats before deletion. Follow AIFreeForever for more AI policy updates and product moves. #China #AIcompanions #CyberspaceAdministrationOfChina #ByteDance #Alibaba #Qwen #Doubao #AIpolicy #MinorsOnline
Sources (Sixthtone)
Google just got hit with a combined €890 million fine from the European Commission over Digital Markets Act breaches.
Brussels says Google gave its own services better placement in Search and blocked app developers from steering users to cheaper offers outside Google Play.
The Commission has ordered Google to stop the non-compliant practices, while also saying it will keep assessing the company’s proposed changes to Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Play Store terms. #Google #EuropeanCommission #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSearch #GooglePlay #DMA #EUantitrust #TechRegulation #AIOverviews #AIMode
Sources (Digital-markets-act, Ioplus, Nashaniva)
Claude Fable 5 is being credited with a possible counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture — an 87-year-old problem that asks whether a polynomial map with a constant nonzero Jacobian must always be reversible.
OpenAI is making a very unusual pitch: use AI-era policy to spread wealth more broadly.
In its new vision statement, the company calls for higher taxes on the rich, a public wealth fund, stronger worker influence, and more government support for jobs and safety rules. The big idea is to make sure the gains from intelligence technology don’t stay concentrated at the top.
It’s a striking stance from a company at the center of the AI boom — and one that’s already fueling debate over inequality, power, and who benefits most from automation. Follow AIFreeForever for the biggest AI and tech shifts.
#OpenAI #AIpolicy #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #EconomicPolicy #Automation #WealthGap #AIFreeForever
Google is working on a new server chip called Frozen v2, designed to run Gemini models more efficiently. The report says it could eventually deliver 6 to 10 times more tokens per unit of power than Google’s newest TPUs, with deployment targeted for 2028.
The chip would bake parts of Gemini’s architecture directly into silicon, which could reduce compute demand and data movement. That matters because Google’s AI infrastructure is under pressure, and the company has reportedly had to lean on outside help to cover capacity gaps.
For now, Frozen v2 looks more like a specialized experiment than a full replacement for Google’s TPUs. If it works, it could become a key piece of Google’s long-term AI hardware strategy.
Follow for more AI hardware and model updates.
#Google #GoogleGemini #Frozenv2 #TPU #AIchip #AIhardware #Alphabet #DeepMind #GeminiModels #ArtificialIntelligence
Sources:
• https://t.co/qUI4P2lZ1Q — https://t.co/C4U4QjHW0x
• https://t.co/wO1Lcrz5PY — https://t.co/BJtCKCjIu7
• https://t.co/ZuUvWaqFCy — https://t.co/fpNPHnGtQM
Moonshot just unveiled Kimi K3, its biggest AI model yet — and says it can stand alongside top systems from OpenAI and Anthropic.
The model has 2.8 trillion parameters, and Moonshot says it will be released as open source on 27 July, letting outside developers download, run, and customize it.
If the benchmarks hold up, Kimi K3 could further narrow the China-U.S. AI gap and put more pressure on closed commercial models. Follow for more AI breakouts and model launches.
#MoonshotAI #KimiK3 #OpenSourceAI #OpenWeight #OpenAI #Anthropic #Claude #GPT5 #ArtificialIntelligence #AIModels
Sources: reuters, bbc, bloomberg