Xero, the New Zealand-founded accounting platform used by 4.6 million subscribers worldwide, announced on Wednesday a multi-year partnership with Anthropic that will embed Claude directly into its product and, more unusually, bring Xero’s financial data into Claude.ai itself. The deal means small business owners will be able to ask Claude questions about their cash flow, […]
A startup called Friending has launched a social platform built around a premise that sounds almost quaint in 2026: helping people make friends by meeting in person. The app, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, connects users by shared interests and geographic proximity, then deliberately limits chat functionality to push them toward face-to-face meetings rather than […]
The AIM-listed language technology company says its new model, the largest dedicated translation model in production, ranked first in 31 of 32 languages in internal benchmarking against DeepL and Gemini. The model is natively integrated into the Trados portfolio. The problem RWS is describing is a real one in enterprise translation: the tools that move […]
The startup, spun out of nonprofit Accumulus Synergy last August, has built a network connecting pharmaceutical and biotech companies to regulators across more than 70 countries. The new Connector makes that network accessible without leaving the systems companies already use. Getting a drug approved in multiple countries simultaneously requires filing the same information with dozens […]
The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct challenge to the architectural limits of diffusion-based video generators. Every AI video model currently on the market produces the same thing: a flat […]
Automattic has added write capabilities to WordPress.com’s MCP integration, giving AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT the ability to create posts, build pages, manage comments, and restructure content, all through natural conversation, with human approval at every step. For most of the past six months, connecting an AI agent to your WordPress.com site has meant […]
The AI search company launches a suite of health data connectors, linking Apple Health, wearables, and electronic health records, making it the second major AI platform to integrate with Apple Health after OpenAI. Consumer health AI has become the year’s fastest-moving product category, and on Thursday Perplexity entered the race properly. The company launched Perplexity […]
Here is one way the AI data economy works in practice in 2026: a DoorDash courier straps on a body camera, washes at least five dishes, holds each one up to the lens for a few seconds, and earns a few dollars. That footage, mundane, specific, reproducible at scale, is exactly what AI and robotics […]
The second version of Microsoft’s in-house image model lands at #3 on Arena.ai’s leaderboard, behind only Google and OpenAI, and begins rolling out across Copilot and Bing Image Creator today. A year ago, Microsoft was generating images for Bing and Copilot almost entirely with OpenAI’s models. On Thursday, the company’s in-house team announced MAI-Image-2, a […]
A single command now installs security, privacy guardrails, and local AI models on the world’s fastest-growing open-source agent platform. OpenClaw launched on 25 January 2026. Austrian developer Peter Steinberger says he built the first version in roughly an hour. Within weeks it had become one of the fastest-growing open-source repositories in GitHub history, an AI […]
