How Anthropic’s ‘Skills’ make Claude faster, cheaper, and more consistent for business workflows

Anthropic launched a new capability on Thursday that allows its Claude AI assistant to tap into specialized expertise on demand, marking the company's latest effort to make artificial intelligenc [...]

Anthropic launches enterprise ‘Agent Skills’ and opens the standard, challenging OpenAI in workplace AI

Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company [...]

Anthropic Skill scanners passed every check. The malicious code rode in on a test file.

Picture this scenario: An Anthropic Skill scanner runs a full analysis of a Skill pulled from ClawHub or skills.sh. Its markdown instructions are clean, and no prompt injection is detected. No shell c [...]

New framework lets AI agents rewrite their own skills without retraining the underlying model

One major challenge in deploying autonomous agents is building systems that can adapt to changes in their environments without the need to retrain the underlying large language models (LLMs).Memento-S [...]

Sonos Play review: The company's best portable speaker so far

It’s been a rough couple of years for Sonos. In mid-2024, the company released a redesigned and thoroughly busted update to its app, which Sonos owners need to set up new products, manage their spea [...]

Media Matters is suing the FTC to block investigation into X advertiser boycott

Media Matters for America has sued the US Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency is unfairly targeting it in retaliation for past criticisms of the social media platform X in violation of [...]

The Sonos Play puts the best parts of the Era 100 in a portable speaker

Sonos has just announced its first new products since 2024, when the company’s plans went sideways after a disastrous update to its app. First up is the Sonos Play, the company’s latest portable s [...]

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

Until recently, the practice of building AI agents has been a bit like training a long-distance runner with a thirty-second memory. Yes, you could give your AI models tools and instructions, but after [...]

Court blocks FTC investigation into Media Matters' alleged scheme against X

The court has blocked the Federal Trade Commission's investigation into Media Matters, the media nonprofit that previously published research showing that ads appeared on X alongside neo-Nazi and [...]