Apple Eyes Paywall for Advanced Siri AI via iCloud+

Anthropic has merged its Claude chat interface with Cowork, a collaborative workspace feature, into a single unified interface. The consolidated product is being rolled out initially to Pro and Max plan subscribers. This consolidation simplifies Anthropic's product offering by combining separate tools into one workspace.

AWS released 38 open-source agent skills across 11 healthcare and life sciences domains to fix a critical failure mode in AI agents: they cite correct frameworks but misapply them in practice, leading to silent errors in variant interpretation, claims processing, and clinical workflows. The skills encode structured decision procedures as markdown documents that agents consume at inference time, improving head-to-head performance by 70-86 percent and critical thinking by 78-85 percent. All skills are released under MIT-0 license and available on GitHub.

Google is opening Google Home to third-party AI agents through a new integration called Home MCP, which uses the standardized Model Context Protocol. The move allows agents like Claude, Open Claw, Google Antigravity, and Hermes to securely access, control, and monitor connected devices and analyze home data within the Google Home ecosystem. This represents a shift toward interoperability in smart home control, letting users choose which AI agent manages their connected devices.

Zipline, a drone delivery startup, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation near $20 billion, more than doubling its $7.6 billion valuation from its previous funding round. The funding follows a partnership with Uber announced last month to expand drone delivery across the U.S. Investors expect falling costs in drone delivery will expand the market beyond its current niche applications in meals and medical supplies.