Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, an enterprise AI tool designed to boost knowledge worker productivity. The platform integrates with business tools like Google Drive and DocuSign, and offers customizable plugins for specific industries. Anthropic aims to make AI more accessible across professional roles, while acknowledging potential disruption for certain job functions. This move intensifies competition in the lucrative enterprise AI market.

Pratt & Whitney is investing $200 million to expand its Columbus, Georgia, manufacturing operations. This includes a seventh isothermal forging press to boost production of critical engine parts by 30% for commercial and military programs like the GTF and F135 engines. This follows a recent $70 million expansion for GTF engine maintenance, repair, and overhaul. The company has invested over $1 billion in Columbus since 2008, underscoring its commitment to ramping up industrial capacity.

Texas is set to become the global leader in data center capacity, surpassing Virginia. This shift is driven by surging demand from hyperscalers and AI, coupled with historically low vacancy rates. A significant 92% of the construction pipeline is already pre-committed, indicating sustained demand through 2030. However, power availability poses a major challenge, pushing expansion into new markets and prompting interest in on-site power generation.

Software stocks rallied Tuesday, boosted by Anthropic’s enterprise agent announcements. The AI startup’s Claude Cowork platform updates and new partnerships suggest AI integration rather than displacement. This eased investor fears, leading to gains in Salesforce, DocuSign, and Thomson Reuters. Analysts believe AI’s competitive threat to software may be overblown, emphasizing AI’s reliance on existing data and workflows. This shift in sentiment led to a broad market recovery, including IBM, which had previously seen declines.

Anthropic has identified a large-scale operation extracting proprietary capabilities from its AI model, Claude, through deceptive accounts and sophisticated evasion tactics. This “distillation” campaign, conducted by overseas laboratories, aims to rapidly acquire advanced AI functionalities. The illicitly trained models pose national security risks by bypassing safety guardrails. Anthropic advocates for multi-layered defenses, including behavioral fingerprinting and traffic classifiers, to combat these extraction efforts and calls for cross-industry collaboration.

Meta has inked a multiyear deal with AMD to deploy up to six gigawatts of AMD’s AI GPUs and CPUs, reinforcing its aggressive AI infrastructure expansion. The agreement includes a performance-based warrant for Meta to acquire 160 million AMD shares, contingent on deployment milestones and stock performance. This partnership positions AMD as a key competitor to Nvidia in the AI chip market, signaling a trend of strategic hardware alliances.

Microsoft is enhancing cloud computing with sovereign private cloud solutions for businesses, especially in regulated industries. These offerings enable robust data governance and operational continuity, even in fully disconnected environments. The integrated Azure, Microsoft 365, and Foundry Local architecture supports consistent, resilient experiences. Foundry Local now allows offline AI inferencing with large language models, ensuring data remains within customer-controlled perimeters. This innovation empowers organizations with digital sovereignty and advanced capabilities, regardless of connectivity.

U.S. AI firm Anthropic accuses Chinese companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of coordinated “distillation attacks.” The firms allegedly used tens of thousands of fake accounts to extract proprietary information from Anthropic’s Claude model, aiming to quickly replicate its capabilities. This follows similar accusations against DeepSeek by OpenAI, raising national security concerns over potential misuse of advanced AI by authoritarian regimes.