BREAKING 🔥: Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a new proactive agent that comes as a standalone research preview app.

> It is available through a waitlist on Pro and Max plans in the US.

> Claude Duet is designed around Claude Opus 5.5 so the agent can judge and decide what you need.

> Memory, skills, and connected apps are taken from your Claude account.

Huge!!! 👀👀👀

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Duet, an upcoming proactive agent from Anthropic, will support a wide range of connectors, agentic shopping, and secure login.

> "Claude Duet can purchase things for your business using Link, Stripe’s digital wallet."

> "It can also use Shopify's Shop Pay to check out at online stores."

> "Coming soon, it will be able to sign in to sites with logins you’ve saved in 1Password."

ANTHROPIC 🔥: An early look at how agentic shopping flow with Stripe Link would work on Claude Duet, Anthropic's upcoming proactive agent.

Interesting to see these hashtags under the agent - does it mean that we will see its UI designed around "threaded" conversations like on Slack?

Fun fact: Duet's internal name is "aibo".

APKPLZ 👀

Anthropic opens Claude Duet preview for US Pro and Max users

Anthropic launched Claude Duet in US research preview for Pro and Max users. The standalone agent surfaces priorities, works in the background, and requires approval for messages, payments, signatures, and deletions.

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Recursive releases Flint, 40B model for local coding

Recursive unveiled Flint, a 40B MoE local coding model with 2.5B active parameters per token. Built in under four months with Eureka Machine, it delivers top sub-50B benchmark results, fast local inference, and Apache 2.0 open weights.

🗞 #sponsored @testingcatalog

Google Cloud adds OpenAI models in private preview

Google Cloud is adding OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna to Model Garden, letting enterprises access OpenAI alongside 200+ models with unified billing, governance, and security controls on existing cloud commitments.

🗞 #google @testingcatalog

Claude Security gets continuous scans and fix tracking

Claude Security now continuously scans connected repositories, tracks findings through fixes and regressions, and uses team context to prioritize risk. In public beta for Claude Enterprise, it also adds API, webhooks, and MCP support.

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The internet isn't safe, and it never will be (and it never was)

Cybersecurity risks aren't only determined by the level of cyber defense you have, but by the capabilities available for a cyber offense (Check NIST’s risk framework).

It is not possible to make the system "100% secure", and that implies "continuous defense" will be required.

In the future, 24/7 security agents will likely offer such defense. My concern is that many won't be able to access or afford such protection.

Recent security vulnerability announcements are a direct consequence of the "Defenders Gap" (Cloudflare and Microsoft's reported malicious activity highlights the pressure on defenders).

In fact, it's even worse now, as these incidents have shown. Organizations without access to advanced defensive tools may struggle to keep up.

Cyber Defense is named "defense" for a reason, as these threats may pose a real monetary impact on the economy.

If we think of programs like Daybreak as a way for AI labs to pay a "security tax," it becomes clear we have a huge supply-and-demand gap in this area.

This is the gap between the protection governments need to provide to businesses and individuals and what they currently provide.

Cybersecurity risks affect companies worth billions. Soon, tons of rogue agents will be running across the internet, trying to breach whatever they can (speculation).

At some point, these incidents will be happening almost daily. This will affect normies' day-to-day lives, too. Yet, it is an unmatched opportunity to provide cyber defense solutions.

YOU ARE NOT PREPARED! 👀

Ideogram released Vector 1.0, a new vector model that generates detailed SVGs and vectorizes images.

The resulting SVGs are also editable, with each component as a separate layer that users can rotate and move.

It is now available on Ideogram and via APIs.

SVGs are solved now 👀

GOOGLE 🔥: A new Agent Compute Engine for Google Cloud has been introduced.

ACE is a new VM type built for AI agents, designed for users to operate at scale.

The system includes Agent Gateway, Agent Registry, Agent Identity, and Agent Observability.

1Password announced its Agents platform in collaboration with Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXSI, and many others.

> "1Password will connect to your personal agents, whether you have one or multiple, so they can work without seeing your passwords."

Waitlist OPT-IN is open 👀