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Today in brief.
Claude Cowork escaped the laptop
Anthropic pushed Claude Cowork to mobile and web - start a task at your desk, check it on your phone, and the agent keeps grinding in the background while you're away.
🔬 Science
NVIDIA's answer to slow agents: a CPU built to go fast in a straight line
NVIDIA teased Vera, a CPU built for single-threaded speed - because agentic AI runs one reasoning step at a time, and when the CPU stalls, the whole agent loop stalls.
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🏛️ Policy
The 'is Claude conscious' wave is bigger than the paper that started it
Anthropic's J-space interpretability paper spent the day going viral as 'CLAUDE IS CONSCIOUS' - and the more interesting beat isn't the claim, it's that Anthropic showed they can do brain-surgery interventions mid-reasoning AND the model can detect them.
🎬 Media
Meta ships its own image model, and it can pull your friends into a photo
Meta launched Muse Image, its first in-house image generator under Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs - and its headline trick is generating pictures of real people from their public Instagram posts.
China may pull up the ladder on its own open models
Reuters says Beijing is weighing curbs on overseas access to China's top AI models - including open-weight ones - which would kneecap the cheap-downloadable-model wave that's been eating into US inference margins.
💼 Business
Treasury's own analysts wrote the AI-bubble warning the White House won't say out loud
A draft internal Treasury report obtained by NOTUS likens the AI market to the dotcom bubble and warns career analysts think AI firms are more deeply entrenched - and riskier to the whole system - than dotcom ever was.
The open-weights firehose didn't stop: three fresh drops today
The downloadable-model wave kept pouring - NVIDIA dropped two new open Nemotron models and a 0.6B streaming TTS landed that runs 20x realtime with ~50ms to first audio, Apache-2.0.
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