Anthropic analyzed 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions from more than 600,000 organizations. About half of all usage goes toward business processes and text creation, what Anthropic calls "the work around the work." That means tasks like compiling status reports, building onboarding checklists, or putting together slide decks. Software development barely shows up in Cowork because developers stick with Claude Code for that. The article Claude Cowork's biggest use case is the mundane office work nobody wants to own, Anthropic says appeared first on The Decoder .
Heavily supported in eastern states, the Alternative for Germany is using a GDR cultural icon, the Schwalbe moped, in its campaigning. Now, the Jewish heir of the manufacturer is fighting to protect his family's legacy.
The former Emir led Qatar's transformation from a small Gulf state into one of the world's wealthiest nations and oversaw the launch of Al Jazeera and the country's World Cup bid.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says he's "pretty sure" AI has created more jobs than it's eliminated. That's a sharp turn from his earlier warnings about entire professions disappearing. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is walking back similar claims, too. But studies so far back neither the old doomsday predictions nor optimism. The article OpenAI CEO Altman is now "pretty sure" AI is net job-creating, which is quite the pivot from predicting mass layoffs appeared first on The Decoder .
Taught to sound like a candidate, bots are engaging voters with personalized text messages, making AI-generated texting conversations the latest tool political campaigns are using to connect.
An economics professor at Brown University suspects most of his 86 students used AI to cheat on a take-home exam that averaged 96 percent. When he made the final an in-person test, 18 students dropped the course, nine didn't show up, and the average fell to 48.6 percent. Two large studies from China and UC Berkeley back up his case: where students lean on AI for homework, their proctored exam scores tank. The article Grades dropped from 96 to 48 percent when a Brown professor made students take the exam without AI appeared first on The Decoder .
Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce mortality rates There is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – but there are hopes that could change within months as the first patients are enrolled in a treatment trial. It is a record pace to set up and start this kind of research, scientists said, with patients enrolled just six weeks after the outbreak being declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 17 May. Continue reading...
The AgenticSTS project replaces the ever-growing chat log of AI agents with five separate memory layers. Tested on the card game Slay the Spire 2, the prompt stays at around 5,000 tokens instead of ballooning past 500,000. The agent wins 6 out of 10 games, while competing agents don't win any. The article AI agents win at Slay the Spire 2 after researchers replace growing chat logs with structured memory appeared first on The Decoder .
New York Times journalists who reported on security fears about the president's new Qatari-gifted plane have been called to court. The case raises concerns about press freedoms under the Trump administration.
The South Carolina politician and staunch ally of Donald Trump died aged 71 after a brief and sudden illness, his office said. The hawkish senator backed the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the more recent war with Iran.
In the midst of unexploded Russian rockets and buzzing drones, Ukrainian winemakers are keeping vines and hope alive As winemaker Mykhailo Molchanov pottered about trimming foliage from his vines on a warm early-summer day, his dog Direktor at his heels, it was hard to imagine a more idyllic scene. The Molchanovs’ organic vines are planted directly into the richly biodiverse grassland for which southern Ukraine is renowned – hence their label’s name, Steppe Wines – amid the silvery feathergrass and wild salvia. Continue reading...
Attacks by Ukraine have triggered a fuel crisis in Russia. Reports from across Russia show how residents are dealing with the disruptions in their daily lives.