💼 Claude Launches Workplace Apps

🔬 OpenAI Launches Prism

🧠 Microsoft Unveils Maia 200 for AI Inference

🧠 DeepSeek Launches Human-Like OCR for Math & Tables

📦 Google Rolls Out Budget AI Plus With Flow Video Tool

🛡️ Mozilla Backs Open AI Alternatives With $1.4B Fund

🤝 UK Partners With Meta to Build Public-Sector AI Systems

🇬🇧 Anthropic Builds GOV.UK Assistant to Help Citizens Navigate Services

Claude now supports interactive apps like Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with Salesforce coming soon.

Users can send messages, generate visuals, and access files without leaving the chat interface.

The feature is available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, and can be enabled via the Claude app directory.

App integrations are built on Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, the same open standard used by OpenAI’s app system.

These apps are designed to pair with Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s new autonomous work agent, with deeper integration coming soon.

Prism is a web-based scientific editor and research workspace available to anyone with a ChatGPT account.

It integrates deeply with GPT-5.2 to assess claims, revise prose, check logic, and surface prior research.

The tool supports LaTeX natively and adds visual diagram creation from sketches and whiteboards.

Prism is not autonomous. It is designed to accelerate human-led research, similar to how Cursor or Windsurf assist developers.

OpenAI says ChatGPT now receives 8.4M science-related queries weekly, driving the need for a dedicated research interface.

Maia 200 follows the Maia 100 from 2023 and is optimized for running large AI models, not training them.

It packs over 100 billion transistors and delivers 10+ petaflops in 4-bit precision and ~5 petaflops in 8-bit performance.

Microsoft says a single Maia 200 node can run today’s largest models with room for future scaling.

The chip is already powering Microsoft’s Superintelligence models and Copilot workloads.

Microsoft claims Maia 200 outperforms Amazon’s Trainium v3 on FP4 and exceeds Google’s 7th-gen TPU on FP8.

Mozilla is investing its $1.4B reserve into a new alliance of open-source AI startups. The move aims to counterbalance the dominance of OpenAI and Anthropic by keeping innovation accessible and decentralized.

The UK government is working with Meta to develop open-source AI for use in public services like transport and housing. The initiative aims to reduce reliance on proprietary systems by creating more transparent alternatives.

Anthropic is teaming up with the UK government to build a chatbot for the GOV.UK site. Starting with job search and training help, the assistant will simplify access to services using Claude’s AI.

Mistral released Vibe 2.0, a tool built for long coding sessions that uses asynchronous AI agents. These digital workers run tasks in the background, helping developers tackle complex problems while staying focused on their main project.

Yahoo just rolled out Scout, a beta AI search engine powered by Claude, Bing, and Yahoo’s user data. It features citation-rich results designed to boost publisher traffic and will test ads on select queries. Scout will also power AI updates across Yahoo Mail, News, Sports, and Finance via its new Scout Intelligence Platform.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, an open-source AI model with stronger vision-to-code capabilities and a new “agent swarm” system that runs up to 100 sub-agents in parallel. The upgrade enables faster, scalable workflows across tools like Kimi Code and the Kimi App, aimed at power users and devs.