AI News Archive: July 7, 2026 — Part 7
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- Meta’s new image and video AI tools let you turn Instagram into your creative mood board
With Muse Image live and Muse Video in preview, Meta has officially stopped outsourcing its creative AI to Midjourney and Black Forest Labs.
- Daily Digest: Lyft names new C-suite exec, Meta unveils AI image tool
A venture-backed edge computing company with addresses in the Bay Area and Texas has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, leaving behind more than 50 creditors and millions in unsecured debt while holding almost no assets.
- Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
- Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook. Tens of thousands of queries per week already run through them. AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wants to "ultimately eliminate" the cost of external models. For Copilot customers, that could mean less performance for the same price. The article Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs appeared first on The Decoder .
- Microsoft starts swapping OpenAI and Anthropic out for its own AI in some apps
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own AI in some product features, Bloomberg reports. The shift routes selected tasks to Microsoft’s in-house MAI models where cost or data residency favours them. The change is incremental rather than a clean break. OpenAI and Anthropic still handle most production traffic inside Copilot, with MAI […] This story continues at The Next Web
- Microsoft is reportedly ditching OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models in favor of its own to cut costs
Microsoft Corp. is reportedly transitioning away from using OpenAI Group PBC’s and Anthropic PBC’s most advanced artificial intelligence models in favor of its own — increasingly leaning on the new Microsoft AI or MAI model family, despite publicly asserting that those models aren’t as sophisticated as other leading frontier AI systems. That’s according to a […] The post Microsoft is reportedly ditching OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s AI models in favor of its own to cut costs appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even if their laptop is closed.
- Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web as usage data shows most users aren’t coding
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web , expanding a tool that has quietly become the company's bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the far larger market of knowledge workers who never open a terminal. The rollout, which begins in beta with Max subscribers before expanding to additional plans, marks a strategic inflection for Anthropic. It transforms Cowork from a desktop-only agent into a cross-device platform where tasks can start on a laptop, continue autonomously in the background, and be reviewed from a phone — even after the user closes the app entirely. "Your work goes everywhere with you, and keeps going without you," Anthropic writes in its announcement. The timing is deliberate. Alongside the mobile launch, Anthropic published usage data from 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions sampled between May 11 and May 31, drawn from more than 600,000 organizations. The data paints a striking picture: the overwhelming majority of what people do with Cowork has nothing to do with writing software. The biggest AI story nobody's talking about The numbers tell a story that cuts against the dominant narrative in enterprise AI, which has fixated on coding assistants and developer productivity as the primary use case for large language models. Business process and operations — tasks like pulling scattered updates into a single report, building onboarding checklists, and reconciling spreadsheets — accounted for 33.4% of all sampled Cowork sessions, making it the single largest category by a wide margin. Content creation and copywriting — producing drafts, slide decks, posts, and proposals — came in second at 16.4%. Together, those two categories make up roughly half of all Claude Cowork usage . Software development, by contrast, accounted for just 8.7%. DevOps and infrastructure followed at 7%, with research and intelligence at 6.4%, data analysis and business intelligence at 5.8%, document processing and extraction at 4.1%, and sales and revenue operations at 4%. The remaining 12 categories each represented less than 4% of usage, including personal assistance at 3.8%, education at 2.4%, and meeting intelligence at 1.8%. Anthropic describes these dominant use cases as " the work around the work " — tasks that span nearly every role in an organization but rarely appear in anyone's core job description. "People are using it for a variety of tasks that aren't necessarily the hallmark of a specific role, but instead represent the connective work around a role that moves projects forward and keeps businesses running," the company writes. "That means tasks like drafting a status update, building a slide deck, or condensing reams of research into a single report." That phrase — "the work around the work" — is Anthropic's attempt to define and claim an entirely new category of AI productivity. It's a calculated reframing: rather than positioning AI as a tool that replaces what professionals do, Anthropic is arguing that the most valuable current application is handling everything professionals do around their actual expertise. What mobile access changes — and what it doesn't The expansion to mobile and web introduces three concrete capabilities that reflect how Anthropic envisions Cowork fitting into daily workflows. First, sessions now sync across devices. A user can start a task at their desk, check on its progress from a phone, and retrieve the finished output from any device. Second — and arguably more significant — Cowork can now run tasks in the background with no device online at all. Users can schedule work for a specific time, and Claude will execute it autonomously. Anthropic offers the example of setting Monday morning client prep for 6 a.m.: "Claude works through the email threads, transcripts, and recent news, builds the briefing doc, and leaves the follow-up email drafted but unsent. Review it over coffee." Third, when Claude encounters a decision that requires human judgment, it surfaces the question to the user's phone. "Nothing ships until you've reviewed and approved it," Anthropic states. Desktop remains the most fully featured surface, with access to local files and the browser. But the web version also opens Cowork to users who cannot install a desktop application — a meaningful expansion in enterprise environments where IT departments control software installation. The company also unified its interface: on web and desktop, chat and Cowork now share a single home screen, and projects and artifacts persist across both modes. To encourage adoption, Anthropic is extending doubled Cowork usage limits through August 5. The strategic logic: why Anthropic is chasing the non-developer The usage data and the mobile launch together reveal a company executing a two-track strategy. Claude Code , its terminal-based coding agent, dominates among software developers. But Cowork is designed to capture the vastly larger population of professionals whose work involves creating, organizing, and communicating information rather than writing code. The contrast between the two products is instructive. As Anthropic notes, Claude Code "is most often used by software developers for the key parts of their role: building, debugging, and shipping code." When developers do use Cowork , they tend to use it not for programming but for the communications-focused work that surrounds every role — status updates, documentation, and coordination. This pattern — where AI handles the connective tissue of work rather than its core substance — aligns with what Anthropic describes as people using "Claude Cowork to assemble and structure the information they can use to act on their expertise." The company illustrates this with three examples: a lawyer using Cowork for document formatting and filing while reserving legal judgment for themselves, a hiring manager synthesizing interview feedback while spending more time on candidate conversations, and a team lead producing a slide deck that explains a decision while focusing on actually making that decision. The implications for Anthropic's business model are significant. Developer-focused tools, while high-profile, serve a relatively narrow market. The Ramp AI Index published in May showed Anthropic pulling ahead of OpenAI in business adoption for the first time — with 34.4% of firms paying for Anthropic's services compared to OpenAI's 32.3% — and suggests the company's enterprise push is gaining traction. Claude Code was identified as the primary driver of that shift. But Cowork targets an addressable market that is orders of magnitude larger: every knowledge worker with a laptop, a pile of spreadsheets, and a slide deck due by Friday. A crowded field gets more competitive The mobile launch arrives during one of Anthropic's busiest — and most turbulent — stretches in its history. Just last week, Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 , a new model that narrows the performance gap with its more expensive Opus-class models while maintaining lower pricing. The model is available at introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens through August 31 before rising to $3 per million input tokens. Sonnet 5 serves as the engine underneath Cowork, and its improved agentic capabilities — better reasoning, tool use, and sustained task completion — directly enhance Cowork's ability to handle complex, multi-step workflows. Two weeks before that, Anthropic released Claude Tag , a Slack-native AI agent designed for team collaboration. Where Cowork focuses on individual task delegation, Claude Tag operates as a multiplayer tool — a single Claude identity that everyone in a Slack channel can interact with, building context from conversations over time. According to Anthropic's announcement, 65% of the company's own product team's code is created by its internal version of Claude Tag. Fortune reported that Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code and Cowork, Cat Wu, described the distinction: "Claude Code, Cowork, and chat are very single-player, whereas Claude Tag is built to be interactive and multiplayer." Together, Cowork and Claude Tag represent a pincer strategy: Cowork captures individual productivity workflows across devices, while Claude Tag embeds AI into team communication channels. Both are designed to push Anthropic deeper into enterprise operations, beyond the developer seat. The security question looms The expansion also arrives against a backdrop of unresolved security concerns. On July 1, security firm Armadin — led by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia — published research detailing what it described as a full sandbox escape in Claude Cowork on Windows, as reported by SiliconANGLE . The attack chain involved DLL sideloading against the Claude desktop executable to gain trusted access to Cowork's virtual machine service, then exploiting undocumented parameters to achieve root access and bypass network restrictions. Anthropic responded that the vulnerability did not qualify as a security issue because exploiting it requires an attacker to already have local code execution on the host machine. Armadin, however, raised a broader concern: that deploying local virtual machines on nontechnical users' systems creates visibility gaps that endpoint security products struggle to monitor. This tension takes on new dimensions as Cowork moves to mobile and web. The web and mobile versions run tasks server-side rather than in a local virtual machine, which eliminates the specific attack surface Armadin identified but introduces different questions about data handling, especially for scheduled background tasks that process email threads, calendar data, and documents without real-time user oversight. Anthropic's announcement states that " the decisions still come to you " and that nothing ships without review and approval. But as Cowork takes on increasingly complex autonomous workflows — processing contract folders, building client briefings from multiple data sources, drafting emails — the surface area for prompt injection and data exposure grows correspondingly. When Cowork first launched in January, TechCrunch reported that Anthropic explicitly warned about prompt injection risks, noting in its blog post: "These risks aren't new with Cowork, but it might be the first time you're using a more advanced tool that moves beyond a simple conversation." As Anthropic courts enterprises, geopolitics complicates the pitch Anthropic's enterprise push is also colliding with geopolitical reality. CNBC reported Monday that Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's AI tools starting July 10, placing Claude Code on a high-risk software list. The move followed Anthropic's June letter to the U.S. Senate accusing Alibaba of carrying out what it called " the largest known distillation attack " against its models. The Alibaba ban, combined with reports that Anthropic is closing loopholes that allowed Chinese companies to access Claude through third-country entities, underscores the increasingly fraught environment for AI companies attempting to serve global enterprise customers while navigating U.S. export and security restrictions. At the same time, Anthropic is investing massively in infrastructure. Reuters reported Monday that Anthropic signed a $19 billion, 20-year lease with TeraWulf for a data center being built in Hawesville, Kentucky, with 401 megawatts of computing power expected to become fully operational in 2028. That kind of capital commitment only makes sense if the company expects enterprise demand — not just from developers, but from the millions of knowledge workers that Cowork targets — to grow dramatically. Anthropic's own usage report comes with notable blind spots Anthropic is transparent about the limitations of its usage analysis. The taxonomy classifies sessions by the type of work being performed, not by the job title of the person doing it. There are no standalone categories for marketing, finance, or HR — functions that are likely absorbed into the dominant "business process and operations" bucket, which may partly explain why that category commands a third of all usage. The sample is also rate-capped rather than proportional to traffic, meaning the numbers are shares of sampled sessions, not absolute volumes. Usage during peak hours is somewhat underrepresented. And roughly 5% of sampled sessions involved personal, non-work use — hobbies, personal assistance, and companionship-style conversations — meaning the data doesn't purely reflect workplace activity. The company also acknowledged that its labeling pipeline changed around May 11, which is why the analysis window begins on that date rather than covering a longer period. What Cowork's rise says about the future of enterprise AI Anthropic's mobile launch and usage data arrive at a moment when the enterprise AI market is shifting from proof of concept to proof of value. The question facing every company deploying AI tools is no longer whether the technology works — but whether it delivers measurable productivity gains across an organization, not just within engineering teams. The usage data suggests that the answer, at least for Cowork, is emerging in an unexpected place. It's not in the glamorous work of building software or conducting research. It's in the unglamorous, universal labor of turning messy information into structured outputs that move organizations forward — the status reports, the onboarding checklists, the variance memos, the client decks. By untethering that capability from the desktop and making it available on every device, Anthropic is betting that the most valuable AI agent isn't the one that writes code. It's the one that handles everything else.
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- Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web
Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile and web. Until now, the feature was limited to the desktop app. The agent keeps working in the background even when the laptop is closed and pings users on their phone when it needs a decision. The move blurs the line between Chat and Cowork even further. The article Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web appeared first on The Decoder .
- Anthropic’s Claude Cowork breaks off the laptop and onto your phone
Anthropic has brought Claude Cowork, its Claude Code-style agent for general knowledge work, to web and mobile. The tool launched as a desktop app in January and, from Tuesday, is rolling out in beta to Max subscribers first. The pitch is continuity across devices. Users can kick off a task at their desk, get status updates on […] This story continues at The Next Web
- Anthropic is bringing Claude Cowork to mobile and web
Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to mobile and web, allowing tasks to run and continue across devices.
- Now you can direct Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI from your phone
Max subscribers get first access to Claude's new Cowork tool for your phone.
- Anthropic brings Cowork out of the desktop and onto web and mobile
Anthropic PBC today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant to mobile and the web, breaking it free from the desktop. Cowork allows users to harness the company’s most powerful AI models to do work across files, calendar, email, messaging apps, the web and other tools on their personal computer. It was […] The post Anthropic brings Cowork out of the desktop and onto web and mobile appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- Anthropic will make Claude Cowork available to users via the cloud
The leading AI company announced its move from a laptop-based system to one that allows users to use Cowork throughout the day and across devices.
- Claude Cowork lands on web and mobile to handle the office work you hate doing
Anthropic is breaking Claude Cowork out of the desktop app, bringing it directly to web browsers and smartphones.
- Anthropic is launching Claude Cowork on mobile and web
Starting Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI platform will be available on mobile and web for the first time. The expanded access is rolling out first to Max subscribers and coming to Claude users on other plans "in the coming weeks." Claude Cowork was previously only accessible through the Claude desktop app for macOS and Windows, […]
- Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips
It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.
- DeepSeek’s AI chip plans
DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip, Reuters reported, in a move that could reshape China’s domestic semiconductor race while also ramping up pressure on US chip giant Nvidia.
- Deepseek is designing its own AI chip
Chinese startup Deepseek is building its own AI chip, Reuters reports. The article Deepseek is designing its own AI chip appeared first on The Decoder .
- DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip
DeepSeek adapted its V4 model for Huawei’s Ascend chips amid US export restrictions.
- Reuters: DeepSeek is developing its own AI chips
DeepSeek, the Chinese company making AI models on the cheap, might look to do the same for AI chips.
- Report: China’s DeepSeek follows OpenAI in developing its own custom inference chips
DeepSeek Ltd., one of China’s most visible artificial intelligence companies, is pushing to design its own, in-house silicon aimed at inference workloads, according to a report by Reuters today. The report cites three people familiar with the company’s plans as saying that it has been exploring the concept of developing its own AI accelerators for […] The post Report: China’s DeepSeek follows OpenAI in developing its own custom inference chips appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
- China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chip, sources say
The chip is designed for inference — the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users — rather than for training new models, the sources said
- DeepSeek Wants to Bypass U.S. Sanctions With a Custom Chip. Why Nvidia Stock Is Sliding.
DeepSeek Wants to Bypass U.S. Sanctions With a Custom Chip. Why Nvidia Stock Is Sliding. Barron's
- DeepSeek Wants to Bypass US Sanctions With a Custom Chip. Why Nvidia Stock Is Sliding.
DeepSeek Wants to Bypass US Sanctions With a Custom Chip. Why Nvidia Stock Is Sliding. Barron's
- Meta’s new AI can generate images of you from your Instagram, and you’re opted in
Hidden inside Meta's Muse Image rollout is a default setting that gives any user access to your public Instagram photos as AI generation fodder.
- AI stocks sink and drag markets lower worldwide
AI stocks sink and drag markets lower worldwide Toronto Star
- US STOCKS: S&P 500 down, Nasdaq slides as AI chip worries persist
US STOCKS-S&P 500 down, Nasdaq slides as AI chip worries persist
- Wall Street suffers major losses as AI stocks tumble and oil prices jump
The market's unease originated in Asia, where South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics saw its shares tumble 6.9% in Seoul
- AI stocks resume their drops and drag markets lower worldwide
AI stocks resume their drops and drag markets lower worldwide San Francisco Chronicle
- AI stocks fall after Samsung Electronics' strong profit forecast fails to impress
AI stocks fall after Samsung Electronics' strong profit forecast fails to impress Dallas News
- Stocks Hit By AI Concerns As Oil Rises On Tanker Attack
Stocks Hit By AI Concerns As Oil Rises On Tanker Attack Barron's
- Stock Markets Face an AI Reckoning, Samsung’s Stock Drop Isn’t It
Stock Markets Face an AI Reckoning, Samsung’s Stock Drop Isn’t It Barron's
- AI Chip Selloff Spreads Across Global Markets | Bloomberg Tech 7/07/2026
Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Samsung's quarterly profit that surged on memory demand, and why it still wasn't enough for investors. Plus, Amazon is back in the bond market, looking to raise at least $25 billion to fund spending on AI infrastructure; and SpaceX joins the Nasdaq 100 Index as sell-side coverage of Elon Musk's company kicks off. (Source: Bloomberg)
- B.C. may ‘use the courts’ to sue OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shooting
B.C. may ‘use the courts’ to sue OpenAI over Tumbler Ridge shooting Toronto Star
- Beijing Considers Restricting Overseas Access to Top Chinese AI Models
Beijing Considers Restricting Overseas Access to Top Chinese AI Models The Information
- China is weighing restrictions on overseas access to its most advanced AI models
Chinese authorities have met with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai over the past month to discuss curbing foreign access to frontier models
- Beijing weighs curbs on overseas access to China's advanced AI models
Companies that attended the meetings included Alibaba, ByteDance and startup Z.ai, the sources said. They were not authorised to speak to the media and requested anonymity
- Why AI ‘girlfriends’, virtual companions may no longer be accessible in China from July 15
Why AI ‘girlfriends’, virtual companions may no longer be accessible in China from July 15
- China weighs curbs on overseas access to their advanced AI models: Report
Chinese officials are discussing restricting overseas access to advanced artificial intelligence models. These talks involve major technology firms like Alibaba and ByteDance. The government views cutting-edge AI as a strategic national asset amid global competition. Discussions also covered strengthening legal protections for proprietary AI technology. This move follows China's increasing global traction in the AI sector.
- China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle
According to Reuters, Chinese authorities are looking into restricting foreign access to the country's most powerful AI models. Alibaba, Bytedance, and Z.ai would all be affected. The move means both superpowers now treat AI as a strategic asset. For Europe, the convenient shortcut of relying on cheap Chinese open-source models could close much faster than expected. The article China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle appeared first on The Decoder .
- Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China’s top AI models: Sources
Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China’s top AI models: Sources The Straits Times
- The days of cheap Chinese AI models could be number as government mulls restrictions similar to the US
Chinese officials have reportedly discussed limiting foreign access to the country’s most advanced closed and open-weight AI models over national-security concerns
- China May Restrict Access to Its Most Powerful AI Models
China May Restrict Access to Its Most Powerful AI Models Time Magazine
- The humanoid robot boom is here. These top Silicon Valley investors aren't buying it.
The humanoid robot boom is here. These top Silicon Valley investors aren't buying it. Business Insider
- Bank of England sees risks to financial stability from AI
The Bank of England said today that artificial intelligence poses a growing threat to financial stability, as investors bet heavily it will prove a success while the technology increases banks' vulnerability to cyberattacks.
- Financial Services’ AI Dangers Highlighted by Regulator’s Review
Britain’s financial regulator has been urged to consider regulation of large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini because of their growing influence on consumer financial decisions. In a review commissioned by the Financial Conduct Authority and published on …
- Synopsys to cut chip fab manufacturing control software in shift to AI design
Synopsys plans to stop offering manufacturing process control software. This move allows the company to divert resources to higher-margin AI design offerings. Chipmakers like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix were informed about the end-of-life decision. Affected products include automation software that monitors fabrication plant anomalies. Some chipmakers are developing their own in-house manufacturing tools.
- Nasdaq sinks as AI worries hit chipmakers
Nasdaq sinks as AI worries hit chipmakers Reuters