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And other top trends for the coming new year from Gartner’s IT Symposium/Xpo 2024.

In today’s AI news, Anthropic’s latest Claude 3.5 Sonnet AI model has a new feature in public beta that can control a computer by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text.

Anthropic’s new ‘computer use’ feature for Claude AI is now available to developers.

Inspired by microscopic worms, Liquid AI’s founders developed a more adaptive, less energy-hungry kind of neural network. Now the MIT spin-off is revealing several new ultra-efficient models.

Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world’s most valuable company on Friday following a record-setting rally in the stock, powered by insatiable demand for its specialized artificial intelligence chips.

In today’s AI news, Google could preview its own take on Rabbit’s large action model concept.

Project Jarvis would take over a web browser to carry out tasks on users’ behalf.

Palantir is helping companies incorporate AI into their businesses — and one analyst says it’s succeeded ‘more than any company (not named Nvidia)’

A team of engineers and physicists affiliated with a host of institutions across Japan, working at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, has demonstrated acceleration of positive muons from thermal energy to 100 keV—the first time muons have been accelerated in a stable way. The group has published a paper describing their work on the arXiv preprint server.

Neoen formally opens first stage of what will be Australia’s biggest battery, soaking up rooftop solar and helping ease the last coal generators out of the grid.

The consumer-facing side of electric vehicles paints a limited picture of what’s happening in the broader automotive industry. But when you glance behind the scenes, things start appearing far clearer, to a point where it’s pretty evident that the future of road transport is battery-powered. A big part of what’s happening backstage is making those batteries right here, on American soil.

Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution announced recently that it reached an agreement with Ford to move production of the Ford Mustang Mach-E’s batteries from Poland to Michigan starting next year. Instead, the LGES Poland factory will prioritize producing batteries for Ford’s commercial vans sold in the U.K. and the European Union.