Beatrice Nolan

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, a general-purpose desktop AI agent for non-technical users that extends Claude Code capabilities to productivity tasks, competing directly with Microsoft Copilot in enterprise markets.

“Author of "Anthropic Gave AI Access to Your Desktop"”

China may be catching up to or overtaking the U.S. in the AI race due to infrastructure advantages including cheaper energy, streamlined regulation, and leadership in open-source AI downloads.

“Author of "China's AI Push Is Shifting the Global Field"”

OpenAI's GDPval benchmark shows Claude Opus 4.1 achieves expert-level performance on 47.6% of real-world professional tasks across 44 different professions, while performance varies significantly across models with GPT-4o performing worst at only 10%.

“Author of article about Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5 release”