venturebeat

2026-07-07

Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to mobile and web as usage data shows most users aren’t coding

Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, expanding a tool that has quietly become the company's bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the far larger market of knowledge workers who never open a terminal.The rollout, which begins in beta with Max subscribers before expanding to additional plans, marks a strategic inflection for Anthropic. It t [...]

venturebeat

2026-07-07

Digital-native startups are ditching rigid databases for their agentic stacks     

Presented by MongoDBThe gap between what AI models and agents can produce and what legacy infrastructure can reliably support is known as architectural drag, and it is the defining bottleneck of the agentic era. The data layer underneath an agentic system must handle variable schemas, vector embeddings, real-time retrieval, and multi-tenant scale, often simultaneously and without human interventi [...]

Destination

2026-07-07

Shut Those Laptops! Anthropic Puts Its Claude Cowork Agent on Your Phone

Claude Cowork now keeps working on tasks even after you close your laptop. It’s part of a larger push toward smartphone-controlled agents. [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

China weighs curbing overseas access to its top AI models

China’s open AI models have been a gift to developers everywhere. Now Beijing may pull them back in. Chinese officials have discussed limiting who outside the country can use the nation’s best AI models, Reuters reports. The Ministry of Commerce ran the meetings over the past month, and Alibaba, ByteDance, and the startup Z.ai took […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

Why hackers are targeting your digital supply chain, not just your systems

Hackers are constantly looking for new ways to gain access to businesses and it’s rare that it’s through the front door. For most organisations cybersecurity still focuses on protecting internal systems and preventing unauthorised access through measures such as firewalls, encryption and employee training. However, this approach assumes that attackers are trying to gain access directly. It [ [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

Axos buys AI fintech Arc Technologies to bolt modern software onto a bank

Axos is buying Arc Technologies, an AI-native fintech that banks tech startups, and bolting its software onto a chartered bank. Axos Financial, a US digital bank with about $29bn in assets, has agreed to acquire Arc Technologies, the company announced. Arc runs a financial platform for technology and growth companies, bundling cash management, debt financing, […]<br /> This story continues [...]

thenextweb

2026-07-07

Data from Estonia’s Odience shows niche creator communities are outselling mass reach

The internet fractured one giant audience into thousands of tight-knit communities, and the brands paying attention are following the trust, not the follower count. Having run performance-based influencer marketing campaigns across more than 2,000 brand partnerships, Tallinn-based Odience has started to notice some patterns. One of them, harder to ignore than the rest, is that creators driving [ [...]

Destination

2026-07-07

New virus catalog reveals which pathogens pose the greatest threat

The data can help predict what a future pandemic virus might look like. [...]

cnet

2026-07-07

7 Habits That Are More Important Than Using Antivirus on Your Phone

The biggest threat to your phone isn't malware, it's how you conduct yourself online. [...]