Anthropic debuts Claude Cowork plugins to help users automate more tasks
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC today rolled out an update to Claude Cowork that will enable users to extend its feature set with custom plugins. Claude Cowork is an automation tool that the company introduced for its popular chatbot earlier this month. It can perform mult…
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New Siri: Apple Almost Chose a Different Partner Before Google Gemini
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - In a recent interview with the tech podcast TBPN, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman revealed that Apple was initially "going to rebuild Siri around Claude," the large language model and chatbot developed by the company Anthropic. In the end, though, Apple announced…
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From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Peter Steinberger's self-hosted AI tool has rebranded to OpenClaw after trademark conflicts forced changes from Clawd to Moltbot, reaching 100,000 GitHub stars.The post From Clawd, Moltbot to OpenClaw: Viral Self-Hosted AI Agent Rebrands the Third Time ap…
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OpenAI to kill off GPT-4o, along with other legacy models
Erik van Klinken / techzine - OpenAI is permanently retiring its GPT-4o model on February 13, 2026, along with several other older models. Despite bringing it back once after user backlash, the company says improvements in GPT-5.1 and GPT-5.2 now make the transition viable, with only …
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Google Maps Now Lets You Chat With Gemini AI While Walking or Biking
Tim Hardwick / macrumors - Google Maps now lets you talk to Gemini while following walking or cycling directions. The latest update is an extension to the AI chatbot's existing conversational navigation feature in driving mode that rolled out in November.You can now ask Gemini hand…
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