📌 TOPINDIATOURS Hot ai: US Marine Corps to install ‘digital brain’ into YFQ-42A ‘w

The US Marine Corps (USMC) announced it has selected General Atomics’ YFQ-42A aircraft “for evaluation in the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Uncrewed Expeditionary Tactical Aircraft (MUX TACAIR) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program.”

This will include the installation of a ‘digital brain’ into the YFQ-42A, afterwhich tests will be carried out to see how well it functions alongside crewed fighters. General Atomics’ YFQ-42A aircraft is one of two uncrewed fighter drones the USMC has selected to enter flight testing—the other being Andurill’s YFQ-44A.

The Marine Corps’ ‘mission kit’

The new contract will lead to the integration of a Marine Corps mission kit into the YFQ-42A surrogate platform, according to a General Atomics press statement. The YFQ-42A vehicle will then be assessed by the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF).

As that statement explained, the “agreement integrates GA-ASI’s expertise in autonomy and uncrewed aircraft systems with a government-provided mission package, using the YFQ-42A platform as a surrogate to evaluate integration with crewed fighters.”

The YFQ-42 will essentially feature a ‘digital brain’ provided by the USMC, according to a report from The War Zone. It will work as a surrogate for CCAs, in general, helping the Marines explore how they will integrate the uncrewed aircraft alongside crewed fighters on a MAGTF (Marine Air Ground Task Force). This will help pave the way for CCAs as aerial AI “wingmen” that could help draw away enemy fire, provide support, and perform reconnaissance.

In April 2024, the US Air Force selected General Atomics to build production-representative flight test articles for the CCA program. The YFQ-42A successfully performed its maiden flight the following year, in August 2025. As the General Atomics statement explained, the aircraft can be “rapidly adapted for different mission sets and service requirements.”

Delivering next-generation capapilities

According to General Atomics, the USMC contract includes the rapid development of autonomy for its government-supplied mission kit. The company described this kit as a “cost-effective, sensor-rich, software-defined suite capable of delivering kinetic and non-kinetic effects.”

“This selection builds upon the GA-ASI autonomous systems in use today and demonstrates our commitment to delivering next-generation capabilities for critical USMC missions,” Mike Atwood, vice president of advanced programs for GA-ASI, explained in the statement.

“Our FQ-42, combined with our proven autonomy architecture and integration expertise, positions us to rapidly deliver an affordable CCA solution that enhances the Marine Air-Ground Task Force’s operational effectiveness in contested environments,” Atwood continued.

General Atomics developed the YFQ-42A as part of an ongoing investment into next-generation autonomous combat aircraft. A modular design allows for greater adaptability and rapid integration of mission systems. According to General Atomics, its autonomy architecture “provides the foundation for human-machine teaming in complex combat scenarios.”

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 TOPINDIATOURS Update ai: Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.

The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microsoft's Copilot in the burgeoning market for AI-powered productivity tools.

"Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code," the company announced via its official Claude account on X. The feature arrives as a research preview available exclusively to Claude Max subscribers — Anthropic's power-user tier priced between $100 and $200 per month — through the macOS desktop application.

For the past year, the industry narrative has focused on large language models that can write poetry or debug code. With Cowork, Anthropic is betting that the real enterprise value lies in an AI that can open a folder, read a messy pile of receipts, and generate a structured expense report without human hand-holding.

How developers using a coding tool for vacation research inspired Anthropic's latest product

The genesis of Cowork lies in Anthropic's recent success with the developer community. In late 2024, the company released Claude Code, a terminal-based tool that allowed software engineers to automate rote programming tasks. The tool was a hit, but Anthropic noticed a peculiar trend: users were forcing the coding tool to perform non-coding labor.

According to Boris Cherny, an engineer at Anthropic, the company observed users deploying the developer tool for an unexpectedly diverse array of tasks.

"Since we launched Claude Code, we saw people using it for all sorts of non-coding work: doing vacation research, building slide decks, cleaning up your email, cancelling subscriptions, recovering wedding photos from a hard drive, monitoring plant growth, controlling your oven," Cherny wrote on X. "These use cases are diverse and surprising — the reason is that the underlying Claude Agent is the best agent, and Opus 4.5 is the best model."

Recognizing this shadow usage, Anthropic effectively stripped the command-line complexity from their developer tool to create a consumer-friendly interface. In its blog post announcing the feature, Anthropic explained that developers "quickly began using it for almost everything else," which "prompted us to build Cowork: a simpler way for anyone — not just developers — to work with Claude in the very same way."

Inside the folder-based architecture that lets Claude read, edit, and create files on your computer

Unlike a standard chat interface where a user pastes text for analysis, Cowork requires a different level of trust and access. Users designate a specific folder on their local machine that Claude can access. Within that sandbox, the AI agent can read existing files, modify them, or create entirely new ones.

Anthropic offers several illustrative examples: reorganizing a cluttered downloads folder by sorting and intelligently renaming each file, generating a spreadsheet of expenses from a collection of receipt screenshots, or drafting a report from scattered notes across multiple documents.

"In Cowork, you give Claude access to a folder on your computer. Claude can then read, edit, or create files in that folder," the company explained on X. "Try it to create a spreadsheet from a pile of screenshots, or produce a first draft from scattered notes."

The architecture relies on what is known as an "agentic loop." When a user assigns a task, the AI does not merely generate a text response. Instead, it formulates a plan, executes steps in parallel, checks its own work, and asks for clarification if it hits a roadblock. Users can queue multiple tasks and let Claude process them simultaneously — a workflow Anthropic describes as feeling "much less like a back-and-forth and much more like leaving messages for a coworker."

The system is built on Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK, meaning it shares the same underlying architecture as Claude Code. Anthropic notes that Cowork "can take on many of the same tasks that Claude Code can handle, but in a more approachable form for non-coding tasks."

The recursive loop where AI builds AI: Claude Code reportedly wrote much of Claude Cowork

Perhaps the most remarkable detail surrounding Cowork's launch is the speed at which the tool was reportedly built — highlighting a recursive feedback loop where AI tools are being used to build better AI tools.

During a livestream hosted by Dan Shipper, Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic employee, confirmed that the team built Cowork in approximately a week and a half.

Alex Volkov, who covers AI developments, expressed surprise at the timeline: "Holy shit Anthropic built 'Cowork' in the last… week and a half?!"

This prompted immediate speculation about how much of Cowork was itself built by Claude Code. Simon Smith, EVP of Generative AI at Klick Health, put it bluntly on X: "Claude Code wrote all of Claude Cowork. Can we all agree that we're in at least somewhat of a recursive improvement loop here?"

The implication is profound: Anthropic's AI coding agent may have substantially contributed to building its own non-technical sibling product. If true, this is one of the most visible examples yet of AI systems being used to accelerate their own development and expansion — a strategy that could widen the gap between AI labs that successfully deploy their own agents internally and those that do not.

Connectors, browser automation, and skills extend Cowork's reach beyond the local file system

Cowork doesn't operate in isolation. The feature integrates with Anthropic's existing ecosystem of connectors — tools that link Claude to external information sources and services such as Asana, Notion, PayPal, and other supported partners. Users who have configured these connections in the standard Claude interface can leverage them within Cowork sessions.

Additionally, Cowork can pair with Claude in Chrome, Anthropic's browser…

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🔗 Sumber: venturebeat.com