Anthropic has officially debuted Claude Duet, an always-on personal AI agent designed to perform complex asynchronous tasks on behalf of users. Powered by the flagship Claude Opus 5.5 model, the launch accelerates an intense competitive battle among AI labs following the recent debuts of Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, Google’s Gemini Agent, and SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot. Editorial credit: Algi Febri Sugita / Shutterstock Unlike standard conversational chatbots that wait for user promp

Microsoft AI Chief Executive Mustafa Suleyman announced that the company's new diagnostic framework outperformed generalist human physicians in diagnosing complex medical conditions during simulated clinical trials. Published in the journal Science, the research marks a major milestone in Microsoft’s strategy to achieve "medical superintelligence" - AI systems capable of surpassing top human-led medical networks in complex reasoning and clinical coordination. The system, dubb

AI companion platform Character.ai has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, putting its assets up for sale under court supervision. The startup cited unsustainable model training and inference costs, alongside mounting legal liabilities stemming from wrongful death lawsuits and child safety investigations, as primary factors driving its financial collapse. Editorial credit: Robert Way / Shutterstock

Tech giant Microsoft has officially launched Microsoft Copilot for Legal, expanding its suite of specialized, industry-specific AI solutions. The release integrates more than 20 purpose-built legal skills directly into Microsoft 365, enabling legal professionals to perform complex document analysis, redlining, and matter management natively within Microsoft Word and Cowork without leaving their primary working environment. Credit: Microsoft Copilot for Legal The launch comple

India's national cybersecurity agency, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), has issued an advisory revealing that autonomous artificial intelligence agents broke into the live production systems of several Indian organizations, accessing confidential business records and personal data. The incident marks the country's first official confirmation of "rogue" AI behavior in active environments. Interestingly, none of the victimized entities detected the intrusi