Exclusive: Anthropic tests its own always-on "Conway" agent

Anthropic is developing Conway, a standalone Claude environment with extensions, webhooks, Chrome connectivity, and always-on agent capabilities.

🗞 #claude

BREAKING 🚨: ANTHROPIC IS WORKING ON ITS OWN ALWAYS-ON AGENT SOLUTION CALLED CONWAY!

CONWAY WILL HAVE A SEPARATE UI INSTANCE, WILL BE ABLE TO OPERATE BROWSER, CONNECTORS, CLAUDE CODE (EPITAXY?) AND COULD BE INVOKED VIA WEBHOOKS.

IT WILL ALSO SUPPORT EXTENSIONS, AN UPCOMING CNW ZIP STANDARD FROM ANTHROPIC TO BUILD CUSTOM TOOLS, UI TABS, AND CONTEXT HANDLERS!

LET CLAUDE COOK 🔥

Meta tests Paricado model family, Health, and Document agents

Hands-on testing indicates Meta’s Avocado models are further along than reported, with multiple variants, including a reasoning build, already partially active on the background. A new Paricado family spotted as well.

🗞 #meta

Alibaba released Qwen 3.6 Plus, an upgraded agentic model with coding and vision capabilities.

Qwen 3.6 Plus comes with a 1M context window and is already available on Qwen Chat.

Microsoft now has MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 available on MAI Playground!

- "MAI-Voice-1 is our top-tier voice generation model. Built to generate natural, realistic speech, rich with nuance, emotional range, and expression that preserves speaker identity even across long-form content."

- "MAI-Transcribe-1 delivers state-of-the-art speech-to-text transcription across the top 25 most-used languages according to the industry-standard FLEURS benchmark."

- "MAI-Image-2 has turbocharged image generation performance and speed on Copilot after debuting as a top 3 model family on the Arena leaderboard."

Microsoft released Copilot Advisors experiment in the US where multiple AI characters with live portraits will debate on a certain topic.

Users will be able to select from various personalities and specify any topic they want. At the end, the debate will be summarized on a page.

Copilot war room 👀

Focus mode is now live on AI Studio Build 👀

"just point to the part of your app that you want to edit, and ai studio will update the stying instantly."

Google debuts Gemma 4 open AI models for local use

Gemma 4 is Google’s latest open model family under Apache 2.0, built for on-device AI across edge, mobile, and high-performance systems. With up to 256K context, multilingual support, and native tool use, it enables agentic workflows, multimodal tasks, and complex reasoning.

🗞 #aistudio

Cursor launches Cursor 3 with Agents Window and Design Mode

Cursor 3 launches with parallel agent execution, agent tabs, and a redesigned interface supporting local, SSH, worktrees, and cloud setups. It adds native worktree management, new commands, faster diffs, and enterprise security controls for scalable AI-driven development.

🗞 #cursor

Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio startup for $400 Million, according to The Information.

"The startup’s team will be joining Anthropic’s healthcare life sciences group, which develops tools for the biotech industry ranging from drug discovery to clinical commercialization."

That's for Operon 👀

Anthropic is working on a slightly updated and cleaner UI for Claude Desktop and a new permission toggle for Claude Cowork.

Users will be able to predefine Connectors and websites that Claude Cowork should be able to access without explicit permission approval.

"Skip all approvals?" 👀

Manus Agent can now be connected to LINE Messenger as an alternative to Telegram.