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Here's something that made me think how good this new model is: Claude found 500 security vulnerabilities in open-source code, without anyone asking it to. Anthropic handed Opus 4.6 some standard debugging tools, pointed it at popular repos, and basically said "have a look." With no special training, or vulnerability-hunting prompts. Just... go read some code. And it found 500 zero-days that every previous audit missed. The part I appreciate though, is Anthropic sent the full list to maintainers before going public, giving them time to patch. That's responsible disclosure done right.

Today in AI:
Opus 4.6's agent teams (this one's worth trying)
Enterprise AI agents get their own identities
How to get started with Claude in Excel

Let's dive in..

🧠 Anthropic's Opus 4.6 Thinks Harder (And Finds Your Bugs)

I've been waiting for this one. Anthropic finally fixed Claude thinking way too hard about simple questions while rushing through complex ones.

Claude Opus 4.6 gets it now. And the context window gets a massive uplift from 200K → 1 million tokens. That's not an upgrade. That's a different category of tool where roughly 750,000 words it can hold in its memory at once.

But here's what I'm actually excited about: agent teams. Instead of one agent grinding through a big project sequentially, you can spin up a squad that tackles different pieces in parallel. Think of it like assigning a project to a team of junior devs who each take a piece. Frontend, backend, tests all moving at once.

And there's a PowerPoint integration now. But hear me out: Claude reads your slide masters, fonts, and layouts, then creates presentations that actually match your corporate templates. No more exporting and manually fixing every slide. If you've ever spent an hour adjusting font sizes after an AI-generated deck, you'll appreciate this.

For your team: If you're still waiting for one agent to grind through a big refactor, you're doing it the slow way. Agent teams run in parallel for the same cost per token. Worth a test.

Together with Neo

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AI should work for you, not the other way around. Yet most AI tools still make you do the work first—explaining context, rewriting prompts, and starting over again and again.

Norton Neo is different. It is the world’s first safe AI-native browser, built to understand what you’re doing as you browse, search, and work—so you don’t lose value to endless prompting. You can prompt Neo when you want, but you don’t have to over-explain—Neo already has the context.

Why Neo is different

  • Context-aware AI that reduces prompting

  • Privacy and security built into the browser

  • Configurable memory — you control what’s remembered

As AI gets more powerful, Neo is built to make it useful, trustworthy, and friction-light.

🏢 OpenAI Wants to Replace Your Colleagues

What if you could hire an employee who never sleeps, never takes PTO, and costs a fraction of a junior hire? That's the pitch behind Frontier, OpenAI's new enterprise platform.

Here's what caught my attention: They're AI co-workers with actual identities.

  • Each agent gets a unique identity with its own permissions and data access, like an employee badge

  • They connect to your ticketing systems, data warehouses, internal apps. They see what your team sees

  • They build memories over time. Get better at your specific workflows. Learn your quirks

  • Built-in performance metrics. Yes, like performance reviews for your AI staff

The early numbers are hard to argue with. One manufacturer cut production optimization from six weeks to one day. A large energy producer saw output jump 5%, over a billion dollars in additional revenue.

For your team: Start thinking about your AI headcount. Seriously. Which roles could you augment or replace with agents that scale infinitely?

🎯 How To Get Started with Claude in Excel

If you're still manually building charts and cleaning up formulas, Claude now lives inside Excel. Here's how to set it up:

  1. Go to the Claude in Excel listing on Microsoft Marketplace

  2. Click "Get it now" to install the add-in

  3. Open Excel and activate the add-in
    Tools > Add-ins on Mac, Home > Add-ins on Windows

  4. Sign in with your Claude account credentials

  5. Open any .xlsx or .xlsm file and start asking questions in the sidebar

What you can do once it's running:

  • Ask Claude to build charts from your data: "Create a combo chart with revenue bars and margin line"

  • Debug formula errors with explanations that cite specific cells

  • Update assumptions across sheets while preserving formula dependencies

  • Get instant answers about complex multi-tab workbooks

Requires Pro, Max, Team, or Enterprise subscription.

🐝 AI Buzz Bits

🤖 GPT-5.3 Codex helped build itself. OpenAI's new coding model debugged its own training and managed its own deployment. 25% faster than its predecessor, new records on coding benchmarks. First model to meaningfully contribute to its own creation.

🧠 Perplexity launches Model Council. Instead of picking one AI model, your query now runs across Claude Opus 4.6, GPT 5.2, and Gemini 3.0 simultaneously. A synthesizer reviews the outputs and shows where models agree and where they don't.

📈 Google Gemini hits 750 million monthly users. That's 100 million new users since Gemini 3 launched. Enterprise is moving too with 8 million paid seats. ChatGPT still leads at 810 million, but that gap is shrinking fast. This race is far from over.

🛠 Tool Spotlight

  1. Google Antigravity — Google's free agent-first IDE, built on VS Code. Runs Gemini 3, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and open-source GPT models. Currently in public preview at no cost for personal Gmail accounts.

  2. SessionCast — Access Claude Code remotely from any device. Run a lightweight agent on your PC, then monitor and continue sessions from your phone or tablet.

  3. Friendware — Tab-to-complete for macOS. Press Tab anywhere on your Mac and get AI suggestions based on what's on your screen.

  4. Plaud Desktop — Meeting notetaker that works across any app. The Mac app detects when a meeting starts, captures system audio, and structures transcripts into notes with AI.

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Cheers, Tim

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