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Anthropic and the U.S. Department of Defense are in an escalating legal conflict after the Pentagon designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, potentially restricting government use and investment in the company. Anthropic has filed legal action challenging the designation, setting up a significant precedent case over how government agencies classify AI companies.

Atlassian announced layoffs affecting approximately 1,600 employees—roughly 10% of its workforce—as part of a strategic pivot toward AI-driven product development. The company is reallocating resources away from certain product areas to fund AI initiatives.

Anthropic has updated Claude to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visual content within conversations. When Claude determines that a visual representation would be helpful for explaining data or concepts, it now generates and displays the image inline rather than requiring separate tools.

Google and Samsung are rolling out task automation for Gemini on newer devices, allowing the AI to perform actions on your behalf in a virtual window. Initial capabilities focus on food delivery and rideshare apps, where Gemini can place orders or request rides without explicit step-by-step user commands.

Google's leadership is not ruling out integrating advertising into Gemini, signaling that the company views its AI assistant as a future advertising platform. This represents a significant shift from search-based ads to conversational, context-aware advertising within AI interactions.

Google is integrating Gemini AI into Google Maps through a new "Ask Maps" feature that lets users ask complex, real-world questions about locations and receive detailed, personalized responses. The rollout also includes significantly upgraded immersive navigation, which Google describes as the largest Maps update in over a decade.

Journalist Julia Angwin is leading a class action lawsuit against Grammarly, alleging the company violated privacy and publicity rights by using real authors' identities and likenesses in its "Expert Review" AI feature without consent. The feature presented editing suggestions as if they came from established writers and academics, when they were actually generated by AI.

Gumloop closed a $50 million Series B from Benchmark Capital to expand its no-code platform for building AI agents. The platform aims to enable non-technical employees to create and deploy autonomous agents without coding knowledge, addressing the bottleneck of AI implementation being limited to technical teams.

Meta is rolling out AI-powered auto-reply functionality to Facebook Marketplace sellers. When buyers ask about item availability, sellers can now use Meta AI to automatically generate responses based on listing details like description, price, location, and availability status. The feature aims to reduce repetitive manual responses and speed up the sales process.

Microsoft announced Copilot Health, a specialized version of Copilot that connects to users' medical records, lab results, and wearable device data in a dedicated, secure environment. The tool allows users to ask questions about their health data, search for medical providers, and analyze trends from fitness trackers and health devices.

NVIDIA launched Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion-parameter open-source model with 12 billion active parameters designed specifically for running complex agentic AI systems at scale. The model emphasizes efficiency and advanced reasoning for autonomous agents that need to complete multi-step tasks with high accuracy.

Zendesk has acquired Forethought, a startup specializing in agentic AI for customer service automation. Forethought was founded in 2018 and won TechCrunch Battlefield, and has been building systems that can autonomously handle customer service tasks without human intervention.