
Anthropic has launched Claude Meetings, a new feature allowing the AI to join video calls as a visible participant to extract tasks and draft plans in real time. The company also introduced Claude Whiteboards and Sheets for collaborative document creation, alongside the general availability of Claude Data for connecting to enterprise systems like CRMs. These tools are currently in beta on Team and Enterprise plans, with initial support for Google Meet. The move positions Anthropic to compete directly with OpenAI and Microsoft in the workplace productivity market.
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© TechCrunch AIMeta’s consumer agent Muse is rolling out voice calling to US businesses for paid subscribers, targeting the tedious task of customer service navigation. With over 10 million users, Meta is betting that AI’s infinite patience will replace human frustration with phone trees and hold times. The feature leverages improved voice mimicry to interact with receptionists, though many still hang up upon detecting non-human voices. This moves Muse from text-based assistance into active, autonomous execution of real-world tasks, marking a significant step toward mainstream consumer AI utility.
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Speculative decoding just got a significant speed boost on NVIDIA GPUs. This release introduces a specialized kernel for 'few-row' matrix multiplications, targeting the small batch sizes typical of verification passes in speculative decoding workflows. By optimizing these specific operations for quantized formats like Q8_0 and IQ4 variants, llama.cpp reduces latency where it matters most during token generation. The change is CUDA-only for now but leverages hardware capabilities from Ampere onwards, making local inference faster without requiring new model architectures or complex configuration changes.
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