AI News: Anthropic Went Crazy This Week!

TL;DR

Anthropic shipped 74 releases in 52 days including computer use and auto mode, while Google, OpenAI, and others also released major AI updates.

Key Points

• 1.Anthropic shipped 74 releases in 52 days. Highlights include Claude computer use (controlling mouse/keyboard remotely via phone dispatch), projects with custom instructions in Claude Co-work, and auto mode for Claude Code eliminating constant permission prompts.
• 2.Claude's computer use feature works but is painfully slow. It took roughly 5 minutes to open DaVinci Resolve, navigate to the color page, and locate the Magic Mask feature — a task that would take a human 10 seconds.
• 3.Google released Gemini 2.5 Flash Live with multimodal conversation. The model can view your webcam or screen share in real time, walk you through software like OBS, and is being integrated into Search, Vertex, and Gemini Live — described as what Siri should have been.
• 4.Google's Lyria 3 Pro now generates songs up to 3 minutes long. Users can prompt specific song structures like intros, verses, and choruses; it's rolling out across Gemini, Google Vids, Vertex, and Producer AI.
• 5.OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its video generator. The decision killed a major Disney partnership — Disney exited after receiving no advance notice, despite teams reportedly collaborating as recently as the Monday of that week.
• 6.OpenAI's ad platform is struggling while shopping features expand. Early advertisers report no measurable business outcomes from ChatGPT ads, yet OpenAI simultaneously launched richer product discovery and e-commerce feed integration, signaling a pivot toward paid product placements.
• 7.A leaked Anthropic document revealed a new model tier called Claude Mythos. Described as larger and more capable than Opus, Mythos scores dramatically higher on coding, academic reasoning, and cybersecurity benchmarks — but Anthropic warned it poses serious cybersecurity risks and will be very expensive.
• 8.Anthropic won one of two Pentagon supply chain risk lawsuits. A federal judge halted one designation citing free speech violations, but a second designation under statute 4713 remains legally in effect before the DC Circuit court.