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In today's edition: Here's the roundup of game-changing big data + agentic AI developments. From Claude's bold moves to massive funding rounds—perfect fuel for your next Spark job or LoRA fine-tune! 🧠💾👇
🤖Claude’s computer use comes to Claude code
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🦋 Bluesky Builds an AI App for Custom Feeds
🔌Codex plugin for Claude Code
😵 China’s DeepSeek AI Suffered its Longest Outage
🔍 Inside Sora's $1M-a-day collapse at OpenAI
💡 AI Tutorial: How to use Claude code with Google Antigravity
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Claude Code just added a “computer use” feature that lets Claude control your computer to complete tasks for you. It is still in beta and rolling out to users. Claude can see your screen, move the mouse, click buttons, and type on your computer. It works across apps and websites, even without a direct connection to them.
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Internal experiments show Meta running parallel tests of Avocado 9B, Avocado Mango Agent, and other variants, with some requests still routed through Google’s Gemini. The full release was pushed from March until at least May.
A new standalone app called Attie lets you design your own algorithm by describing what you want. It runs on Claude, understands your Bluesky history, and builds personalized feeds without writing a single line of code.
This plugin enables Claude Code users to start using Codex from the workflow they already have. Users can use Codex from inside Claude Code for code reviews or delegate tasks to Codex. The plugin uses the local Codex CLI, so existing sign-in methods and configs still apply. It also uses the same repository checkout and machine-local environment.
Expressive Mode by ElevenAgents helps agents acknowledge emotion, de-escalate tense moments, and guide callers to resolution—while staying fast and natural.
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Low Latency Runtime (LLRT) is a JavaScript runtime designed to address the growing demand for fast and efficient Serverless applications.
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Microsoft released Critique and Council, two new features that turn its Copilot Researcher into a multi-model system that can review and edit research reports and run both systems side by side to see where they agree and disagree. Copilot's Researcher already uses OAI for multi-step work, with Critique now adding Claude as a second model to review every report before it ships.
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If you were trying to access DeepSeek today, you might already know about this. China's popular artificial intelligence chatbot suffered its longest outage today since the viral rise of its flagship R1 and V3 models early last year. The outage lasted 7 hours and 13 minutes, with no apparent reason for the outage. It has since been resolved.
A WSJ investigation just revealed the behind-the-scenes chaos of OpenAI Sora video generator shutdown, including a $1M daily burn rate, a blindsided Disney, and the internal code-named model that required Sora's compute budget. Sora was reportedly burning “roughly a million dollars a day” and using significant compute, with Sora 3 training set to start just as it was axed.
Through the Agentic Launchpad with NVIDIA and WeTransact, 14 enterprise AI vendors now offer direct procurement via existing Microsoft agreements. These companies aren’t just imagining the future of AI; they’re engineering it with solutions built to solve today’s most pressing operational challenges.
"La concurrence s'intensifie,” as the French would say. French AI company Mistral just completed its first-ever debt raise of $830 million to fund a new data center near Paris. The new site in Bruyères-le-Châtel will use 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs as part of Mistral’s Grace Blackwell infrastructure, providing a total of 44 megawatts to help the company better compete with competitors OpenAI and Anthropic.
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AI Tutorial
How to use Claude code with Google Antigravity
You don’t need any complex setup to connect to Claude Code with Google Antigravity. Here is how you can do it to build and automate anything.
Go to Google, download Google Antigravity.
Open the folder on your computer and create a new directory for your project files.
Open this folder inside the Antigravity application.
Navigate to Extensions inside Antigravity and search for “Claude Code for VS Code” by Anthropic.
Install the extension by clicking the Install button.
Restart the Antigravity application.
Click the Claude icon at the top to activate it.
Claude Code is now connected and ready to use.
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