Anthropic launches Claude based no-code App builder

Today’s Highlights:

📰 News: Anthropic joins the vibe-coding trend by launching a Claude based no-code App builder + ElevenLabs launches a new voice-first AI assistant

💰 Funding: Abridge raises $300M for AI-powered medical note-taking

⚡️ Top News Stories:

1. Anthropic upgraded Claude, now allowing users to build, host, and share interactive AI-powered apps directly within the Claude app—no deployment or infrastructure management required.

• As part of the offering Anthropic has also launched a new artifacts space, enabling users to turn conversations into AI-powered, interactive apps without any coding.

2. ElevenLabs has launched 11ai, a proactive voice-first AI assistant that executes real-world productivity tasks—like planning, summarizing, and workflow management—using natural language and powerful integrations with 30+ services via the open-source Model Context Protocol, including tools like Perplexity, Notion, Gmail, Linear, Zapier, and Salesforce.

3. Google DeepMind has introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a powerful language model capable of running locally on robots to perform real-world tasks without internet dependency, marking a major step forward in offline, hands-free robot control via natural language.

4. DeepMind has introduced AlphaGenome, an advanced AI model designed to predict how DNA variants affect gene regulation, outperforming existing models and offering scientists a unified, multimodal tool to better understand gene regulation and disease biology.

5. Google has unveiled Gemini CLI, an open source, terminal-based AI tool that allows developers to use Gemini models for code generation, debugging, research, and video creation, all while running locally and offering generous usage limits under an Apache 2.0 license.

6. Microsoft’s new Mu language model is a compact, encoder-decoder LLM optimized for NPU-powered edge devices, enabling real-time, on-device natural language interfaces like the Windows Settings agent with low latency and high performance.

7. A senior U.S. official alleges that Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is covertly supporting China’s military and intelligence through technology services and data sharing while evading U.S. chip export controls using Southeast Asian shell companies and remote data centers.

8. In a landmark ruling, a federal judge determined that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train AI models qualifies as fair use, marking the first major legal validation of tech companies’ argument that fair use can apply to AI training data, establishing a critical precedent favoring AI firms and challenging ongoing lawsuits from authors and publishers.

9. Another federal judge ruled that Meta’s training of AI models on books by authors including Sarah Silverman was legal under the fair use doctrine, citing transformative use and lack of market harm, in a decision that narrows but reinforces AI firms’ legal defenses.

10. Meta has recruited Trapit Bansal, a top AI researcher from OpenAI who helped create its foundational o1 reasoning model, to spearhead its efforts in building a cutting-edge AI reasoning system within its newly formed AI superintelligence team.

11. OpenAI is quietly advancing ChatGPT into a full-fledged productivity platform with tools like real-time collaboration and enterprise data connectors, directly challenging Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.

12. Creative Commons has unveiled CC signals, a licensing-inspired framework to help dataset owners specify how their data can be used for AI training, aiming to preserve openness online amid growing restrictions and data scraping battles.

13. In response to AI features diminishing publisher search traffic, Google has launched Offerwall—a new Ad Manager tool that helps publishers monetize content through customizable options like micropayments, surveys, and ad-watching, with early adopters reporting modest revenue boosts.

14. Reddit is considering adopting Sam Altman’s World ID, an iris-scanning verification system from Tools for Humanity, to help authenticate users as unique individuals amid growing concerns over AI-generated content and age verification laws, all while preserving user anonymity.

15. In a significant shift in its UK legal battle, Getty Images has dropped key copyright infringement claims against Stability AI over the use of its images in training Stable Diffusion, focusing instead on secondary and trademark infringement that could have wider implications for generative AI firms training models abroad.

16. YouTube has launched a new AI-powered search results carousel and is expanding its conversational AI tool, aiming to improve content discovery and viewer engagement, though creators fear the changes could undercut video clicks and monetization.

17. Meta has introduced a privacy-preserving AI-powered summaries feature on WhatsApp that allows users to privately condense unread messages using Meta AI, with U.S. rollout and English language support first.

18. Disney has launched a precedent-setting lawsuit against AI company Midjourney to protect iconic IP like Darth Vader from unauthorized use, framing the case as the first step in a broader Hollywood campaign to defend copyright in the AI age.

💰 Top Funding News:

1.  Abridge, which automates medical note-taking and medical coding using AI, raised a $300M Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Khosla Ventures.

2. Sanmai Technologies, which is pioneering a $500 at-home brain treatment device that combines AI with focused ultrasound to non-invasively treat mental health conditions and enhance cognition, raised a $12M investment from Reid Hoffman.

3. XBOW, which uses autonomous AI to perform expert-level security testing and vulnerability exploitation, raised a $75M Series B round led by Altimeter, with participation from Sequoia Capital and Nat Friedman.

4. Rubrik, a data cybersecurity firm, is acquiring Predibase, a startup that helps companies train and fine-tune open-source AI models, in a move to boost the development and deployment of AI agents in enterprise settings, w/ the deal valued between $100M and $500M.

5. Wispr Flow, which uses voice AI to power a multilingual dictation app and is developing a context-aware AI assistant, raised a $30M Series A round led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from NEA, 8VC, and several angel investors.

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