i looked up the internal numbers. their engineers are using claude for 60% of their work. not "sometimes helps with debugging." sixty percent of everything. 50% productivity gains. 2-3x better than a year ago.
at what point do we stop calling this "assistance"?
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When does AI assistance become replacement? 60% engineering work on Claude
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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork to Get Knowledge Bases
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BREAKING 🚨: Anthropic is working on "Knowledge Bases" for Claude Cowork. KBs seem to be a new concept of topic-specific memories, which Claude will automatically manage! And a bunch of other new things.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 18 janvier 2026
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"These are persistent knowledge repositories.… pic.twitter.com/hG6DLrqkUyBREAKING : Anthropic is working on "Knowledge Bases" for Claude Cowork. KBs seem to be a new concept of topic-specific memories, which Claude will automatically manage! And a bunch of other new things. Internal Instruction "These are persistent knowledge repositories.
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Anthropic’s Voice Mode for Claude Cowork Agents
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Anthropic is working on the Voice Mode support! Operating Claude Cowork agents with voice would be a huge improvement. It feels like it will work as a toggle in a similar way to how it has been done on ChatGPT. Would you use it?
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After using 15 AI tools, created one that does everything
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I was using more than 15 AI tools… It wasn't possible anymore So, I created my own. And it does EVERYTHING https://
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Oh, believe me, the robot companies aren't only doing video models to run the robots. There's a whole AI infrastructure to build the software that gets loaded into the robots. You're absolutely right that they need to worry about the sim-to-real transfer and making sure that
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Google’s AI Studio Design Mode for precise UI edits
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Google is working on a new Design Mode for AI Studio to let users apply granular changes to the generated UI.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 17 janvier 2026
“Focus on specific elements to make precise edits” pic.twitter.com/KVZWvcAK7nGoogle is working on a new Design Mode for AI Studio to let users apply granular changes to the generated UI. “Focus on specific elements to make precise edits”
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AI-native experiences: evolving games, interactive cinema, responsive demos
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The unlock: AI-native games where worlds evolve from player actions
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From waiting and hating to live interactive generation
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Best Chrome plugin for connecting desktop AI agents
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What is the best Chrome plugin for connecting with desktop AI agents?
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Cache-to-Cache: LLMs talk via KV-Caches, 10% accuracy boost, 2x speed
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Researchers just made LLMs talk to each other WITHOUT generating a single word. Cache-to-Cache (C2C) lets AI models talk directly through their KV-Caches, bypassing text entirely. 8.5-10.5% accuracy boost. 2× faster. Zero token waste. Here's the breakthrough (and why this