Anthropic expands its Claude Cowork platform, embedding AI agents into Excel, Drive, and Slack to enhance workflow management. OpenAI collaborates with major consultancies to promote its no-code Frontier platform, while a California judge dismisses xAI's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI. Additional stories cover Apple's acquisition to boost AI-guided photonics, Google's new AI-driven music tool, Microsoft's Sovereign Cloud expansion, Google's clean energy initiative for its data center, and New York's updated RAISE Act focusing on transparency.

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