The most important news pieces from the AI world are here for you, whether you’re an AI enthusiast or just wish to keep an eye on what’s going on.
Focus Topic: Claude is making AI more personal also at work
Claude is evolving fast – and last week brought two major updates that show exactly where it’s heading: deeper into your workflows, and smarter about how your organization works.
First – Agent Skills. These are modular folders that bundle up your team’s knowledge, workflows, and tools. Claude automatically loads the right ones depending on your task – no extra prompting needed. From brand guidelines to Excel templates or even scripts, Skills allow Claude to stop guessing and start executing – based on how you do things. It’s AI that knows your playbook.
Second – Claude now connects with Microsoft 365. That means it can search across SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Teams, and more – pulling in relevant information without file uploads or switching tabs. The result? Answers that come with context. Ask about a project, and Claude brings together meeting notes, emails, documents, and decisions from across the org.
The most powerful part – Claude can now use both these features together. It learns your workflows through Skills, and uses your organizational memory through enterprise search. This means smarter onboarding, faster decision-making, and better collaboration – especially for teams already deep into Microsoft tools.
With these changes, Claude isn’t just becoming more helpful. It’s becoming part of your team – working the way you do, using the tools you already rely on, and getting better every day.
What makes Skills powerful is how they’re built – composable, portable and efficient. You can create them once and reuse across Claude apps, Claude Code and API. Claude even knows how to combine multiple skills automatically, depending on what’s needed. No manual setup, no extra prompting – just results.
And the best part – you don’t need to be technical. Claude can walk you through creating a skill – it asks about your workflow, generates the structure and packages everything up. For teams, this means you can scale expertise across the org – turning processes, rules and know-how into something Claude understands and can act on.
This is how AI becomes more than just smart replies – it starts to become part of how work gets done.
LLMs & AI Models
- OpenAI hired physicist Alex Lupsasca, who joined their new Science team after GPT-5-Pro solved a complex physics problem for him in minutes.
- Microsoft announced that all Windows 11 devices will now include Copilot, with voice commands, document help and workflow tools.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 launched as a fast and affordable model, beating larger models in several tasks while costing three times less than Sonnet.
- ChatGPT will get a mature content mode, allowing verified adults to have erotic conversations with AI, rolling out by December.
- China’s Ring-1T model by Ant Group achieved silver medal-level performance on the Math Olympiad, rivalling top proprietary models.
New Tools
- OpenAI updated the Sora 2 app with Storyboardsand support for generating up to 25-second video clips, expanding its visual creation features.
- Google released Veo 3.1, offering better realism, character consistency and scene extension tools for longer, smoother AI-generated videos.
- Runway launched the Appscollection with simplified video tools like object removal, product image redesign and dialogue insertion.
- Salesforce integrated Agentforce 360 with both ChatGPT and Claude, enabling full CRM tasks and regulated sector support inside AI platforms.
- Microsoft launched MAI-Image-1, its first in-house text-to-image model producing photorealistic images, now entering Bing and Copilot platforms.
👉 Explore these tools: Sora 2 | Veo 3.1 | Runway Apps | Agentforce 360 | MAI-Image-1
Other Quick Picks
- Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video of himself bombing protesters with feces, sparking controversy on social media.
- US Army General William Taylor said generative AI helps him make faster, better military decisions, including personal life choices.
- A Pew Research survey found that people in 25 countries feel more anxious than excited about AI, especially in the US, Italy and Australia.
- Google Meet added AI makeup filters that stay in place while moving, enhancing appearance during business video calls.
- Google’s Gemma-based AI discovered a new cancer treatment mechanism by making tumors 50% more visible to the immune system.
- Walmart now allows direct shopping via ChatGPT, strengthening its AI strategy and reducing gap with Amazon.
- OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to develop custom AI accelerator chips, first arriving in late 2026.
🇪🇪 AI News from Estonia
- Estonian startup Dragonfly, co-founded by Sven Sabas, helps companies map and optimize their tech stacks using AI-powered recommendation models.
- Six Estonian women were named among Europe’s 100 most influential in tech by Sifted, highlighting the need for visibility and better funding for female founders. Congratulations Hedi Mardisoo, Kart Siilats, Sille Pettai, Anna-Liisa Palatu, Triin Linamagi, Triin Hertmann. Read the news here.
- Smartpost’s sales director Sander Borodkin said AI improves logistics, tracks trends and helps structure complex thoughts for better business decisions.
- Otto Pukk called for a national strategy to support Estonia’s potential in AI-era hardware production, urging policy and investment balance. Read here.
- TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology is hosting an AI competition at Robotex for high school and vocational students, offering a fast track to IT faculty for top performers. Sign up here.
- Rain Lõhmus said AI will define the next generation of winners – those who dare to experiment and use it for personal learning and prototyping. Read here.
🎙️ AIPowerment Podcast dropped a new end-of-month episode featuring Preedik Poopuu, an AI and education innovator discussing personalized learning and agent swarms.
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