Microsoft announces Copilot Cowork with help from Anthropic

This morning, Microsoft announced "Copilot Cowork" a new cloud-based AI agentic automation tool within Microsoft's existing AI tool 365 Copilot, except now it can complete work on users' behalf across many Microsoft apps, instead of contained within each one. If it sounds suspiciously similar to Anthropic's own "Claude Cowork" applications for Mac and Windows (released in January and February of 2026, respectively) that's to be expected — as Microsoft and Anthropic worked together on this new feature.

Google Workspace CLI brings Gmail, Docs, Sheets and more into a common interface for AI agents

Google Workspace — the umbrella term for Google's suite of enterprise cloud apps including Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin — is moving into that pattern with a new CLI that lets them access these applications and the data within them directly, without relying on third-party connectors.

The project, googleworkspace/cli, describes itself as “one CLI for all of Google Workspace — built for humans and AI agents,” with structured JSON output and agent-oriented workflows included.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions

On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new foundation model billed as “our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work.” In addition to the standard version, GPT-5.4 is also available as a reasoning model (GPT-5.4 Thinking) or optimized for high performance (GPT-5.4 Pro).

The API version of the model will be available with context windows as large as 1 million tokens, by far the largest context window available from OpenAI.

Claude Code Skills Just Got a MASSIVE Upgrade

Anthropic just released the Skill Creator—a brand new tool that lets you test, benchmark, and optimize your Claude Code skills using plain language. In this video, I break down everything you need to know about the tool:

• Skill Types Explained: A clear breakdown of the two main types of skills: capability uplift vs. encoded preference, and how we eval each one.
• What the Skill Creator buys us: A look at how the tool fixes these problems using evals, blind A/B testing, and description optimization.
• Workflow Demo: A step-by-step walkthrough where I build a skill from scratch and run an eval.

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite at 1/8th the cost of Pro

Google's newest AI model is here: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and the biggest improvements this time around come in cost and speed, especially for enterprises and developers seeking to leverage powerful reasoning and multimodal capabilities from the U.S. search and cloud giant.

Positioning it as the most cost-efficient and responsive model in the Gemini 3 series, Google is offering a solution built specifically for intelligence at scale.

Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primarily on developing and releasing to the world a growing family of powerful and capable Qwen open source language and multimodal AI models, unveiled its newest batch, the Qwen3.5 Small Model Series.

To put this into perspective, these models are on the order of the smallest general purpose models lately shipped by any lab around the world, comparable more to MIT offshoot LiquidAI's LFM2 series, which also have several hundred million or billion parameters, than the estimated trillion parameters (model settings) reportedly used for the flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's Gemini series.

Google's Agent Upgrade

In this video, we look at the recent updates to Google's Opal agent system. How it's now set up to take advantage of the Gemini 3 models and how you can use it to build simple apps and agents