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Anthropic is transferring the Agent Skills standard, its trademark, GitHub organisation and domain to the Agentic AI Foundation, following its earlier donation of the Model Context Protocol. The standard is used by more than 70 agent platforms and has around one million published skills with nearly 280 million installs.
Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude Duet, a research preview in which Claude runs on a dedicated virtual machine, monitors connected apps and messages the user only when something needs attention. Built on Claude Opus 5.5, it ships as a standalone app for US Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers with hard limits on financial actions.
At GTC Berlin, Nvidia expanded its open-weights library with Nemotron 3.5-based Retriever embedding and reranking models covering 34 languages, a refreshed Nemotron Parse for PDF extraction and the compact Alpamayo 2 Edge driving model. The releases follow Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and precede the download of the 74B Nemotron 3.5 Bolt.
Speaking at the International AI Summit in Dublin, Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen confirmed the AI Office has issued formal requests to OpenAI and Anthropic after judging their voluntary disclosures about summer testing incidents insufficient. The requests cover security sandboxing, external evaluation and usage monitoring.
Anthropic has opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering model evaluation, testing standards and incident response. The company says more than 1,500 GovTech Singapore engineers already use Claude Code to modernise government systems.
Google DeepMind and GovTech Singapore have fine-tuned a lightweight Gemma model on local scam conversations so that it can flag fraud on the phone itself, without messages leaving the device. A two-stage pipeline screens incoming texts with a small classifier before escalating suspicious threads to the fine-tuned model.
Gemini 4 Argon, Google's new flagship, is built for multi-step work in coding, finance, legal, cybersecurity and science and tops the Vals Index. It offers a unified one-million-token input-output limit via the API, with introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens rising to $4 at the end of November.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, proprietary multimodal models with a one-million-token context and new Active Memory and Active Focus features for long-running agents. Wonder is on Meta's API at $4 per million input tokens; Wonder Full is restricted to Muse Code subscribers.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's fastest and cheapest model yet, aimed at summarisation, classification, subagent work and browser use. It introduces an adjustable effort setting to the Haiku tier, posts large gains over Haiku 4.5 on agentic benchmarks, and is available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure at $0.10 per million input tokens.
Across OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, the centre of gravity has shifted from chat to agents that plan, call tools and complete multi-step work. Enterprise buyers are now evaluating orchestration, observability and guardrails as first-class requirements.
Recent open-weight releases match closed models on grounded QA and long-context retrieval, giving sovereignty-sensitive deployments a credible on-premise path.
Sub-second speech-to-speech loops and automatic language detection are turning voice from a feature into the primary interface for low-literacy and hands-busy contexts.
