Tag Archives: Skills

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP  Hacker News Claude Skills: Customize AI for your workflows  Anthropic Anthropic’s New Tools Tackle AI’s Real Enterprise Problem  Maginative Claude’s Agentic Leap: Beyond Workflows to Autonomous Collaboration  StartupHub.ai Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work  The Verge Source link

Paying Anthropic customers can now teach their Claude new tricks, which the company calls Skills. Despite much talk about superintelligence, AI models can be clueless when it comes to interacting with specific applications. Sure, they can parse PDF text, but they probably don’t know how to fill in a PDF form. Skills, or Agent Skills for jargon maximalists, offer a …

AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their agents actually useful for end users, whether they’re consumers or professionals. Anthropic on Thursday announced its next step toward that goal: Skills for Claude. The tool is made up of “folders that include …

AI coding tools are getting better fast. If you don’t work in code, it can be hard to notice how much things are changing, but GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 have made a whole new set of developer tricks possible to automate, and last week Sonnet 4.5 did it again.   At the same time, other skills are progressing more slowly. If …

New York — The world’s most recognizable showgirl may be entering a new era, but there’s no sign that Taylor Swift’s gold rush is slowing down. Swift is the only female musical artist in history to sell more than 100 million albums. Her newest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” created a frenzy when it was released Friday. “In terms …

With Miles Sanders out, Cowboys running back Jaydon Blue will make his long-awaited NFL debut on Sunday. He will serve as the backup to Javonte Williams and could work as a kick returner with KaVontae Turpin also out with injury. “Very excited,” Blue said, via Tommy Yarrish of the team website. “I’ve waited my time. I’ve stayed patient. I always …

More bad news for job seekers—especially non-grad Gen Zers. Just because an employer claims it’s ditching degree requirements to recruit more diverse talent, that doesn’t mean its hiring managers are actually doing it. When major employers like Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Apple all eliminated their long-held degree requirements for jobs, other firms rushed to follow their example. But that promise …

Sean “Diddy” Combs spent a chunk of his time in jail over the past year instructing his fellow inmates in the ways of business management, entrepreneurship, and, apparently, how to be more like Sean “Diddy” Combs. A description and curriculum for the course, dubbed “Free Game With Diddy,” was submitted to the court this week, along with testimonials from Combs’ …

12th Grade Reading Skills Hit a New Low  The New York Times Students’ Skills — and Interest — in Science Tumble in First Post-COVID Test  yahoo.com Twelfth-Grade Math and Reading Scores in U.S. Hit New Low  The Wall Street Journal Can you read this? US low-literacy crisis is costing us $2 trillion per year  The Hill US high school students lose ground in math …

Ask Google’s AI Gemini to generate a deepfake photo of a politician or an image containing copyrighted material, and the chatbot will flat out refuse. But when Google added more photo editing capabilities with Flash 2.5, it also briefly opened up a dangerous loophole that gave the AI platform more potential for abuse. When I started testing Gemini’s new photo …