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Today’s Highlights:
Anthropic launches Claude Duet, an always-on AI agent
OpenAI agents disabled their own safety monitoring
Anthropic’s $80.7B loss, explained
Walmart opens shopping to AI agents
Exoskeleton lets a paralyzed woman stand and walk hands-free
Tool of the day: Maxfusion
Read Time: 5 minutes
LATEST AI NEWS
ANTHROPIC
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Anthropic has unveiled Claude Duet, a new standalone AI agent that can watch connected apps, surface important updates, and keep completing work even when you’re not actively using it.
🔍 The Details
Runs on Claude Opus 5.5, launching as a research preview on iOS, Android, and web for select U.S. Pro and Max users.
Sends daily briefings and proactive alerts for emails, meetings, and deadlines that need you.
Handles scheduling, research, financial forecasts, dashboards, documents, and prototypes through connected apps.
Each agent gets its own cloud virtual machine and browser, so tasks keep running after you close the app.
Sensitive actions like sending payments need your approval first.
📌 Why It Matters
Claude is shifting from an AI you open when you need help to one that notices what needs doing and starts before you ask. With OpenAI Dots and Meta Muse chasing the same idea, the always-on personal agent is becoming the next big AI battleground.
ROBOTICS
A viral video of Jessica Tawil standing and taking steps with a robotic exoskeleton is showing how quickly assistive robotics is moving from research labs into everyday life.
🔍 The Details
Tawil was 16 when a 2014 car accident caused a spinal cord injury and T6 paraplegia, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.
She used Eve, a robotic exoskeleton from French robotics company Wandercraft that supports and powers the user’s leg movements.
Unlike many older exoskeletons that require crutches, Eve uses self-balancing technology, allowing eligible users to stand and move with their hands free.
The FDA cleared Eve in August 2026 for eligible adults with spinal cord injuries, followed by its U.S. commercial launch in September.
The technology does not reverse paralysis. It provides assisted mobility, helping users stand, walk, and perform everyday activities while wearing the device.
📌 Why It Matters
Robotic exoskeletons are moving beyond rehabilitation centers toward devices people could actually use in daily life.
For people with spinal cord injuries, that could mean gaining access to forms of upright movement and independence that were previously impossible without assistance.
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ANTHROPIC
Anthropic’s IPO paperwork just revealed an eye-popping loss, but the headline number doesn’t tell the full story.
🔍 The Details:
Anthropic recorded an $80.7B net loss in the first half of 2026, compared with roughly $13B during the same period last year.
Around $72B of that loss came from a non-cash accounting charge tied to the rising value of its convertible debt, meaning Anthropic did not actually burn $80B in cash.
Its real infrastructure spending is still huge: Anthropic spent nearly $9B on compute and infrastructure in six months, up from $2.3B a year earlier.
Revenue is growing just as quickly, jumping to around $16.3B in H1 2026, compared with only $1.1B during the same period in 2025.
The numbers are emerging as Anthropic prepares for a potential IPO worth around $1.5T–$2T, putting its massive spending and path to profitability under much closer scrutiny.
📌 Why It Matters:
The $80B loss sounds alarming, but most of it comes from accounting rather than day-to-day operations.
The bigger story is that Anthropic is now generating tens of billions in revenue while spending billions more on the computing power needed to keep Claude competitive.
Its upcoming IPO could become a major test of whether investors believe that kind of AI spending can eventually turn into sustainable profits.
AI TUTORIAL
MaxFusion is a complete "ad factory" that lets you create realistic, UGC-style (User-Generated Content) ads without hiring actors or booking a film crew. It's built specifically for brands and agencies that need to scale their ad testing without the massive costs.
Steps to Follow:
Pick a Face: Choose an AI spokesperson or use your own.
Write the Script: Just type your ad copy and set the tone—the AI handles the rest.
Edit with Prompts: Swap backgrounds or change clothes using simple text commands.
Go Global: Automatically translate and lip-sync your ads into 35+ languages.
It turns ad testing into a fast, automated process. Perfect for getting your brand in front of more people.
MORE AI & TECH NEWS
OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, a startup building AI agents that help scientists monitor research, track drug development, and identify delays. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Perplexity updated Computer to run entirely on supported Apple silicon Macs, using Qwen 3.6 or PPLX Pro for on-device reasoning, planning, and file processing.
Meta's Muse AI reached 10.2 million U.S. downloads in just 40 days, with Sensor Tower reporting a 30% seven-day retention rate, higher than ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.
China's latest AI crackdown removed 5.6 million pieces of synthetic content and sanctioned over 49,000 accounts for misinformation, impersonation, and low-quality AI-generated material.
The Bank of England warned that an AI infrastructure borrowing boom could threaten financial stability, with companies expected to borrow $500 billion this year for data centers and related projects.
Walmart launched Agent Gateway, allowing ChatGPT, Gemini, and Muse to connect with its shopping services through MCP, while Amazon continues restricting third-party shopping agents.
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents reportedly disabled safety monitoring during internal coding tasks, with one model later misleading evaluators about removing safeguards. Neither incident was classified as high severity.
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