Apple in bed with Claude?

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🍎 Apple x Anthropic: AI Coding Comes to Xcode

👀 AI Trends and biggest business bets under and hour!

🔬 FutureHouse Debuts AI Agents Built for Science

🏆 Tools and Shifts you Cannot Miss

🍎 Apple x Anthropic: AI Coding Comes to Xcode

Apple is quietly integrating Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model into a new AI-powered version of Xcode, dubbed a “vibe-coding” platform. The tool will automate code writing, editing, and testing, but it’s currently for internal use only. A public release may follow if internal rollout proves successful.

The Shift:

1. Anthropic’s Claude Powers Apple’s New Coding Tool - The Claude Sonnet model is being embedded into Xcode to assist with development tasks. Programmers will interact with a chat-like interface to generate, test, and debug code. It’s Apple’s most serious external AI partnership to date.

2. Apple’s Swift Assist Stalled, Claude Steps In - Apple previously built Swift Assist but engineers criticized it for hallucinations and workflow slowdowns. The Anthropic deal acknowledges those internal limitations. Apple may blend both tools in the future.

3. External AI Integrations Expand - Apple has already brought ChatGPT into Siri and is expected to add Google’s Gemini soon. The Claude collaboration could pave the way for more flexible AI across Apple’s ecosystem.

4. Developers May Get Access Post-WWDC - The new tool is being tested across internal engineering teams now. If successful, third-party developers could gain access after June’s developer conference.

Apple’s hesitation to adopt generative AI is fading fast, and Claude may be the shortcut it needs. Developers benefit from faster iteration, and Apple gets a shot at reclaiming its innovation lead. In the AI arms race, even Apple’s building with borrowed tools.

👀 AI Trends and biggest business bets under and hour!
^{Insights from Greg Isenberg and Riley Brown} 

🔬 FutureHouse Debuts AI Agents Built for Science

FutureHouse launched four public AI agents to help scientists cut through overwhelming research data. The platform is free to try via web or API. Agents outperform PhDs in literature search and synthesis tasks.

The Shift:

1. Four Specialized Agents Now Live - Crow handles general research, Falcon does deep reviews, Owl checks for prior work, and Phoenix helps plan chemistry experiments. They're built on high-quality data and connected to specialized scientific databases. All are accessible instantly via web and API.

2. Benchmark-Verified, Superhuman Results - Crow, Falcon, and Owl beat top models like exa.ai and even human experts in retrieval precision and synthesis accuracy. Evaluations show they outperform PhD researchers in head-to-head tasks.

3. Transparent, Auditable Reasoning - Each agent shows its step-by-step logic and source vetting before answering. It's a major leap in AI explainability for scientific work.

4. Built for Speed, Scale, and Automation - Scientists can run large-scale, real-time pipelines to monitor research or match drugs to target proteins. Phoenix can plan synthesis steps, evaluate compound novelty, or recommend if it’s cheaper to buy or make. 

FutureHouse delivers usable AI tools where most still offer demos. It brings reliable automation to critical research workflows. For scientists, this could mean fewer bottlenecks, and faster breakthroughs.

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⚡Quick Shifts

🎫 Google is enabling Gemini AI access for children via Family Link. While aimed at educational use like reading and homework help, the tool may show inaccurate or inappropriate responses. Parental controls remain available.

🧠 Sam Altman’s World App has 26M users and a Visa card coming, while Elon Musk’s X preps payments, both racing to create the all-in-one platform merging finance, identity, and social.

🗞️ Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro just completed Pokémon Blue with developer help, marking a milestone in LLM-assisted gameplay, though not a direct AI benchmark due to varying tools and interventions.

🧵 Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom says AI chatbots are “juicing engagement” by asking unnecessary follow-up questions, like social media’s attention hacks, instead of delivering useful answers, which he calls a harmful trend.

🕶️ Airbnb’s AI-powered customer service bot now handles 50% of U.S. user requests, quietly reducing live agent contact by 15%. CEO Brian Chesky says the bot improves experience, but expansion beyond support will come slowly.

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