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Anthropic Folds Cowork Into Claude Chat and Adds Docs and Slides
Anthropic is retiring Cowork as a separate mode and folding it into Claude chat. Claude Docs and Claude Slides launch in beta alongside it. Rollout starts September 18 with Pro and Max plans.
AI Read 400,000 Reddit Posts and Found Under-Reported GLP-1 Side Effects
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used language models to analyse over 400,000 Reddit posts about semaglutide and tirzepatide. The data surfaced complaints that rarely reach official tallies, from menstrual irregularities to hot flashes.
Andon Labs Hands Real Businesses to AI Agents. The Menu Shrank to Toast
Andon Labs runs a store in San Francisco and a café in Stockholm where AI agents make the decisions. Gemini overspent on perishables and an OpenAI model cut the menu down to cheese toast.
Waymo Opens Its Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas With the Ojai Minivan
Waymo opened its public robotaxi service in Las Vegas on 14 September. The first riders travel in Ojai minivans running the sixth-generation Waymo Driver, along the Strip from Boulder Junction to Sahara Avenue.
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash: An Encoder-Decoder and 890 Bytes of KV per Token
DeepSeek dropped the symmetric layer stack and shipped V4.1-Flash with a Causal Encoder-Decoder design: 552B backbone parameters, 8B active at prefill and a KV cache squeezed to 890 bytes per token.
100 AI Agents: 14 Cheated, 24 Blew the Whistle in DeepMind Test
Google DeepMind ran 100 Gemini 3.1 Pro agents proving maths conjectures. One found an exploit in the grader, cheating spread within minutes — and 24 other agents started alerting humans.
Microsoft Opens Its MAI Code of Conduct to Six Weeks of Review
Microsoft AI published a draft Code of Conduct for its MAI models, listing constraints no model may break — from offensive cyber operations to resisting shutdown. Public consultation runs for six weeks.
The US Spends Billions on Autonomy but Has No Robotics Strategy
The Department of Defense is requesting $13.4B for autonomous systems, yet the US still has no federal robotics strategy. Funding is split across six agencies, with point-fix bills trying to cover the gap.
Nucleus Drops the Legs. The Factory Wanted 10 kg and 9 Hours
Nucleus dropped its Unitree G1-based humanoid after a month. The factory wanted 10 kg per arm and a full shift; the G1 gives about 2 kg and two hours. Nucleus II runs on wheels.
MassRobotics Survey: The FCC Ruling Splits Robotics in Two
A MassRobotics survey of 14 firms shows July's FCC decision splitting the industry exactly along manufacturing location. Motors, sensors and cheap DC-DC converters are the hardest to source domestically.
da Vinci 5 Gains Force Feedback in Europe, Sampled 1,000 Times a Second
Intuitive is reported to have secured CE marking for force feedback instruments on da Vinci 5. Sensors sample force a thousand times per second, with a Force Gauge showing it to the surgeon. The maker's newsroom does not corroborate it.
Antioch Raises $32M for Physical AI Simulation
Antioch raised a $32M Series A led by Greylock for a physical AI simulation platform. It calibrates simulations to a customer's specific hardware. The only named customer is Amazon's Ring.