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Anthropic has quietly crossed a milestone that would have seemed unlikely just months ago — for the first time, more American businesses are paying for Claude than for OpenAI's ChatGPT. According to the Ramp AI Index, Anthropic's business adoption climbed to thirty-four point four percent in April, edging past OpenAI's thirty-two point three. A narrow lead, but a symbolic one in a race that's far from settled.
Staying with Anthropic — the company is reshaping how third-party agents connect to Claude subscriptions. After reinstating support for tools like OpenClaw, Anthropic is introducing a new subcategory called Agent SDK tiers, which means developers get access back, but under a revised structure. The catch, as always with these announcements, is in the fine print around pricing and permissions.
And Google DeepMind is rethinking something most of us stopped thinking about decades ago — the mouse cursor. Researchers have integrated the Gemini AI model directly into pointer behavior, allowing it to understand contextual references like "this" and "that" on screen. It's a small surface area for a genuinely interesting idea about how humans might eventually navigate computers without spelling everything out.
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