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In today's Techpresso:
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🤝 Anthropic launches Cowork to bring Claude Code to non-coders 🥽 Meta cuts 1500 Reality Labs jobs in AI pivot 💰 Microsoft offers to cover AI data center power costs 📱 Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio ⚡ Meta launches Meta Compute initiative for gigawatt-scale AI data centers 🎁 + 11 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools 📚 + 1 trending papers & reports
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🤝 Anthropic launches Cowork to bring Claude Code to non-coders
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- Anthropic released Cowork, a new tool built into the Claude Desktop app that brings Claude Code features to people who don't have coding experience or technical backgrounds.
- Cowork lets users pick a specific folder where Claude can read or change files, with instructions given through regular chat, removing the need for command-line tools or virtual environments.
- Anthropic warns that Cowork can take actions without asking for permission, which creates risks like deleted files or prompt injection if users give vague or unclear instructions.
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🥽 Meta cuts 1500 Reality Labs jobs in AI pivot
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- Meta is cutting 10% of its Reality Labs workforce, roughly 1,500 jobs, as the company moves money away from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI wearables like smart glasses.
- Reality Labs has lost billions of dollars each quarter for several years while investing in products that have not yet produced notable returns, prompting CEO Mark Zuckerberg to order cost cuts.
- Executives met in December 2025 to discuss a 30% budget decrease for the metaverse team, with sources saying Meta faced tough competition in the ecosystem it had never expected.
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💰 Microsoft offers to cover AI data center power costs
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- Microsoft announced a new initiative promising to pay full power costs for its AI data centers, responding to growing opposition from communities facing higher electricity bills and water shortages.
- The plan includes rejecting local property tax breaks, replenishing more water than the company uses, training local workers, and creating Community Advisory Boards at major data center sites.
- Microsoft president Brad Smith said the company developed this approach since September after noticing public concern shift from jobs to electricity prices and water use during visits to Wisconsin.
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📱 Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio
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- Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, a new subscription service that bundles Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro together for $12.99 per month or $129 per year.
- Pixelmator Pro is coming to iPad for the first time since Apple bought the company in November 2024, with a touch-optimized workspace and full Apple Pencil support for editing.
- The bundled apps include new features like Transcript Search and Visual Search for finding moments in footage, Beat Detection for syncing cuts to music, and AI tools in Logic Pro.
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⚡ Meta launches Meta Compute initiative for gigawatt-scale AI data centers
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- Meta has launched Meta Compute, a new top-level organization that will build AI data centers with computing infrastructure measured in hundreds of gigawatts, reporting directly to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
- The initiative will be led by Santosh Janardhan overseeing technical architecture, custom silicon, and data center operations, while Daniel Gross handles long-term capacity planning and supplier partnerships.
- Meta has already committed $72 billion in capital spending for 2025 and secured nuclear power agreements for six gigawatts, with plans to build tens of gigawatts this decade.
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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch
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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy
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Slackbot is an AI agent now
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New leak spills some beans around OpenAI's first AI device said to rival Apple
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Paramount files lawsuit against Warner Bros. amidst controversial Netflix merger
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PC shipments set to hit the buffers as AI guzzles memory
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Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)
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‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells
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The job AI still can’t do
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🧰 Trending tools
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Cowork: a Claude interface that accesses local folders to execute file tasks like organizing downloads, converting screenshots to spreadsheets, or drafting reports from notes.
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Bookmarkify: a bookmark manager that lets designers view, organize, and analyze live websites in-app with color/font extraction and team collaboration features.
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Atoms: an AI-powered platform that autonomously executes the complete startup lifecycle from initial research through design, development, launch, and revenue generation for business ideas.
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Alpine: a unified workspace combining docs, tasks, forum, chat, and AI with a personalized feed, eliminating the need to integrate multiple separate productivity tools.
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Phia: a native macOS screen recorder that automatically polishes videos with intelligent zoom, smooth cursor tracking, and captions, all processed locally offline.
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LAD (Language-Aided Design): a SolidWorks add-in that uses LLMs to generate sketches, features, assemblies, and macros from text prompts and uploaded documents.
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📚 Trending papers & reports
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Matrix multiplication technique speeds up cryptography calculations: researchers use floating-point hardware to multiply matrices over finite fields 2-4 times faster than existing methods.
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