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A writer recounts how their parents, both in their seventies, became enthusiastic daily users of Anthropic's Claude chatbot, even bringing it into conversation during a family vacation. The writer, who is wary of AI, was struck by the generational contrast in attitudes toward the technology.
Salesforce shares jumped over 20% Thursday, marking its second-best trading day ever, after the company posted stronger-than-expected second-quarter results and unveiled an expanded partnership with Anthropic. The deal includes a new plugin called Claudeforce, which lets sales teams pull data through Anthropic's Claude chatbot, and was announced by CEOs Marc Benioff and Dario Amodei during a CNBC appearance.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues most companies claiming to be 'AI companies' have simply bought licenses and run pilots, not restructured how they operate. The piece defines true AI-native organizations as ones built on the assumption that intelligence is cheap and abundant, where workflows, staffing and measurement would collapse without the models—unlike adopters, who could remove AI tools and keep functioning, just slower.
Anthropic now lets Claude share memories between its chatbot interface and Cowork, its cloud-based computer-use agent, so context from regular chats carries into automated tasks and back. The update also adds a toggle letting users allow Claude to remember sensitive topics like health or politics, which are excluded by default, with notifications each time such a memory is stored.
Chalkbeat reporting found Sal Khan and his Chief Learning Officer Kristen DiCerbo conceding that Khanmigo, the AI tutoring chatbot launched three years ago with sweeping ambitions, barely got used by students and hasn't transformed education. Commentator Dan Meyer separately chronicled the project's decline from bold TED talk claims and philanthropic backing to shrinking usage projections despite major advantages like early OpenAI access and Microsoft support.