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Anthropic is making moves with something called Project Deal, a new feature set aimed at helping businesses negotiate and manage contracts using AI assistance. It's another sign that Anthropic is pushing Claude beyond the chatbot framing and into high-stakes professional workflows where accuracy and trust carry real weight.
Meanwhile, up in Alaska, lawmakers are weighing a right-to-repair bill that would require electronics manufacturers to provide consumers and independent shops with the parts, tools, and documentation needed to fix their own devices. For a state where geography makes getting to a certified repair center genuinely difficult, this isn't just a consumer rights argument — it's a practical one about access and self-reliance.
And Sam Altman took to social media to suggest it feels like a good time to, quote, seriously rethink the operating system. He didn't elaborate much, but the timing is hard to ignore — with AI agents increasingly handling tasks across apps and files, the decades-old model of how we interact with computers is starting to feel like it was built for a different world entirely.
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