😺 New Claude can do WHAT now?!

Welcome, humans.

Another awesome (and terrifying) new robot drop—a Chinese startup called EngineAI just released a video of the first humanoid robot to actually walk like a human:

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Since all other robots we’ve seen seem to waddle (or parkour) around, they’ve clearly done some really impressive training.

When you pair this dude with Torso from yesterday, you’ve basically got yourself a full humanoid robot right there.

Remember that one Pet Shop Boys song from the 80s? “You’ve got the brawn…I’ve got the brains… let’s make lots of money.”

Well this version is “I’ve got the arms… You’ve got the legs… let’s take over the human race!”

Now, walking robots are cool, but you know what’s even cooler? A rolling one:

Rotunbot (RT-G) an Autonomous Spherical Robot by Logon Technology

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• Claude can now write code in your browser.
• Meta launched phone-sized Llama 3.2 models.
• UK probed Google-Anthropic investment.
• White House pushed for faster military AI adoption.

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Claude just got a huge upgrade, Part 2—it can now run its own code.

It’s Shiptober, y’all.

Anthropic must have heard us predict they won’t release a new Opus model before the U.S. Presidential election last week, because the drops this week won’t stop coming.

That, or the company’s really trying to show off to help raise that moolah.

Today’s new drop is the “Analysis tool”, a new feature that basically turns Claude into your personal data analyst. It’s basically Claude’s version of GPT’s Code Interpreter.

Here’s how it works: before, Claude wrote code, and could even display some of it (but, like, simple stuff). Now, Claude can execute JavaScript code directly in the chat window. This lets you:

1. Process data, create visualizations, or handle complex math (no good demos of math so here’s a chart of Claude’s emotions today).
2. Analyze sales performance or create a sales funnel.
3. Create dashboards, like a chart of your daily spending, from raw data.

If you’re like us when we first heard about this, and are still confused about how this is different than Artifacts, here’s a Perplexity answer for ya.

Fair warning—the entire data set is in the context window, which limits how much you can do with this, but that’ll change soon. Also, there are workarounds.

The best part? Analysis is available to all Claude.ai users right now—just toggle it on in the Feature Preview, like below:

Why it’s important: This change means Claude can now test its solutions and verify they work, hopefully leading to more accurate and reliable answers.

This is pretty important, as Claude can now use your computer to do things like look up sports stats, play Minecraft with you (but maybe read this first), or even solve Captchas…wait…solve Captchas?! Uh oh…

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Around the Horn.

Made via Hailuo - #6 blew my mind.

• Meta released its first quantized Llama 3.2 models (compressed the models to make them smaller and faster), in 1B and 3B versions that are small enough to run on your mobile phone (download here).
• Google Photos will add disclosures to photos that have been edited with Magic Editor, magic Eraser, and Zoom Enhance starting next week.
• The UK launched an investigation into Google’s $2.2B investment in Anthropic as part of a multi-part investigation into big tech “quasi-mergers.”
• The White House ordered the Pentagon and other AI agencies to increase their use of AI, urging them to identify clear safeguards and guardrails so they can accelerate their AI efforts. Reminds us of our Pentagon deepfake story.

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2. Google DeepMind released updates to its MusicFX DJ tool to make it more accessible so anyone of any skill level can use it to make music—watch this video, then try it here.
3. Smashing shows you curated articles with multiple perspectives on topics you care about, from the founder of Goodreads (raised $3.4M—iOS only rn).
4. Cerebras’ new software now lets you run Llama 3.1 models three times faster than before, generating responses at 2,100 words per second—try it here, API here).
5. Concentric monitors who accesses your sensitive data across Microsoft, Slack and other work tools, helping prevent unauthorized sharing (raised $67M).
6. Skyvern watches your screen to learn and automate any browser-based task across different websites—try it out here (it’s also open-source).
7. Boardy is a voice-driven networking app that introduces you to relevant people in real-time, like connecting a Grocery CEO to a farming startup (raised $3M).

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Intelligent Insights.

The Real Reason Robots Shouldn’t Look Like Humans | Supercut

1. Apple made its Private Cloud Compute (which powers its upcoming AI processing) materials publicly available to all security researchers.
2. Here’s a solid breakdown of the open-source versus closed source AI race… it sounds like the race is tipping towards open-source, at least for enterprises.
3. It’s not available to everyone yet, but soon, you’ll be able to moderate how detailed you want Claude to respond—Concise or Full. Great update, can’t wait!
4. This is a great tutorial video if you want to learn how to use Gradio and Hugging Face Spaces, two tools designed to simplify the deployment and sharing of machine learning models with user-friendly web interfaces.
5. Here’s a good framework for thinking of AI use-cases: gods (human replacers), cogs (components in automated systems) or interns (supervised copilots).
6. Read this AI researcher’s sobering analysis of AI risk: The real threat might not be super-smart AI taking over, but today's “just human-level” systems quietly working together to disable safety measures from the inside out.

A Cat's Commentary.