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This week in AI: Google ships Gemini file generation 9 months after rivals, Anthropic turns Claude into the hub for creative work and launches Claude Security on Opus 4.7, and OpenAI breaks out of Azure to sell across every cloud. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/gemini-gets-…

Claude Cowork now runs from your phone. Dispatch is a walkie-talkie to your Mac. Message from your phone, your desktop runs the job, push notification when it's done. Here's how to set it up: thesignal.substack.com/p/how-to-run-c…

OpenAI just released ChatGPT Images 2.0. Every image model until now has tells. • Colouring • Typography • Icon selection You can spot a Nano Banana image from a mile away. GPT Image 2 looks like a professional made it. Full guide: thesignal.substack.com/p/chatgpt-imag…

What if you had 70 seconds to explain how DeepL transforms translation workflows? Here’s how our Chief Product Officer Gonçalo Gaiolas broke it down for @thesignalAI_ founder Alex Banks (@thealexbanks). It’s just one of the highlights in GG’s new blog wrapping up the 5 key takeaways from our Spring Launch event last week. Don’t miss the rest of them: deepl.com/en/blog/key-ta… #SpringLaunch #LanguageSolved #DeepLTranslator #DeepLVoice

This week in AI: Anthropic ships Opus 4.7, Claude for Word, and scheduled agents in Claude Code. Google's Gemini TTS tops the leaderboard. OpenAI's Codex becomes a full desktop agent, and GPT-Rosalind targets life sciences. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/anthropics-b…

GPT-5.4 scores 95% on the Math Olympiad. On simple visual puzzles kids solve in two minutes, it scores 0.2%. That's jagged intelligence. AI can outperform PhDs on one task and fail a toddler's on the next. Full breakdown in this week's issue: thesignal.substack.com/p/the-illusion…

This week in AI: Anthropic locked away its strongest model to patch the world's zero-day vulnerabilities, Meta ditched open-source for closed-source Muse Spark, and three US rivals united to fight Chinese model distillation. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/anthropics-m…

This week in AI: 1. OpenAI raised $122B and acquired TBPN 2. Google open-sourced Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 3. Anthropic paid $400M for Coefficient Bio (10 employees) Bonus: Anthropic found 171 "emotion vectors" inside Claude. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/openai-raise…

Claude Skills are the most underused feature Anthropic has shipped. You write a set of instructions once, save them as a file, and Claude follows your exact process every time. No code. Built entirely through conversation. Here's the setup guide: thesignal.substack.com/p/how-to-build…

BREAKING: Figure's 03 robot is the first humanoid to walk in the White House.

This week in AI: Anthropic's Dispatch lets you text Claude while it works your desktop, Google turns AI Studio into a full-stack app builder, and NVIDIA spends $20B to own the inference layer. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/anthropic-cl…

Claude quietly shipped interactive visuals and most people haven't noticed. Charts, diagrams, and mini tools built right inside the chat. Free for everyone. Full breakdown with prompt templates in this week's issue: thesignal.substack.com/p/claudes-new-…

This week in AI: Yann LeCun left Meta and raised $1B to build AI that learns from reality, not text. Anthropic gave Claude free interactive visuals. And Google's biggest Maps upgrade in a decade lets you talk to it in plain English. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/billion-doll…

Claude Cowork is the most underrated thing Anthropic has shipped. Point it at a folder, describe what you need, walk away. It creates docs, spreadsheets, and presentations directly on your computer. Here's how to set it up properly: thesignal.substack.com/p/how-to-prope…

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Most people use Google's Nano Banana 2 for selfie cartoons. The real use case: 4K infographics from PDFs. AI Studio is where it actually gets interesting. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/publish/post/1…

This week in AI: Google's image gen now renders text at 95%+ accuracy. Anthropic refused to drop military safeguards and hit $2.5B ARR on Claude Code. Perplexity launched a multi-model orchestration engine. And OpenAI raised $110 billion. Full breakdown: thesignal.substack.com/p/google-goes-…

Excel's Agent Mode is quietly one of the most powerful AI features nobody is using. Read the full issue: thesignal.substack.com/p/agent-mode-i…

This week in AI: 🔊 ElevenLabs raises $500M at $11B valuation 💰 Anthropic closes $30B round at $380B valuation 🎬 ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 sparks Hollywood IP war Read it here: thesignal.substack.com/p/elevenlabs-s…

Anthropic just released Claude in PowerPoint. It puts Claude directly inside your slide deck. Read the full guide here: thesignal.substack.com/p/stop-buildin…