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CLAUDE GETS SKILLS 🦾

What’s new? Anthropic has introduced Skills for Claude, a new feature that lets the AI load special sets of instructions and tools to handle specific tasks—like making spreadsheets, presentations, or following company guidelines.

How does this work? Skills are like folders of know-how that Claude opens only when they’re useful. For example, if you ask Claude to help with an Excel project, it can load a spreadsheet skill that includes tips, examples, and even bits of code to make the job easier. Skills can be mixed and matched, work across all Claude products, and only load what’s needed so things stay fast. Developers and teams can also create their own custom skills to teach Claude their unique workflows or brand rules.

Why does this matter? This makes Claude more personal and practical. Instead of a one-size-fits-all assistant, Claude can now learn your way of working—making it a smarter, more reliable helper for both individuals and businesses.

INTRODUCING CLAUDE HAIKU 4.5 🤖

What’s up? Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, a new lightweight AI model that offers near-frontier performance at a fraction of the cost and with double the speed of previous versions.

Want the details? Claude Haiku 4.5 builds on the same foundation as the company’s top-tier model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, but is optimized for efficiency and responsiveness. It delivers coding performance comparable to last generation’s frontier models while being three times cheaper to run. Developers can use Haiku 4.5 through the Claude API, Claude Code, and platforms like Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI. The model has also undergone extensive safety testing, earning an AI Safety Level 2 (ASL-2) rating—making it Anthropic’s safest model yet.

GEMMA MAKES CANCER-RELATED DISCOVERY 🧫

What’s up? Researchers from Google DeepMind and Yale University have created Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a powerful new AI model that can “read” and understand the language of cells. The model has already helped scientists make a new cancer-related discovery that was confirmed in lab experiments.

How does it work? C2S-Scale was trained to analyze complex biological data at the level of single cells, using an approach similar to how large language models learn from words and sentences. When tasked with finding drugs that could make hidden (“cold”) tumors visible to the immune system, the model identified a compound called silmitasertib as a potential amplifier. It predicted that the drug would boost immune signals only in certain cellular contexts—a hypothesis that was later confirmed in lab experiments with real human cells.

Why is this significant? C2S-Scale didn’t just process existing data; it discovered something new. This shows that AI can not only analyze data but also make real biological discoveries, potentially speeding up the search for new and more effective cancer treatments.

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