Adobe has added a new feature called "Quick Cut" to its Firefly AI creative platform. The tool lets video creators upload their own raw footage or generate new material with AI, then automatically produces an initial rough cut. Users describe what the video should be about in plain language—an interview, a product demo, a travel vlog—and Firefly builds a structured first edit from that description. Scripts or shot lists can also be added as optional input.
Quick Cut targets product reviewers, reporters, podcasters, and marketers. Firefly bundles AI models from Adobe, Google, OpenAI, and Runway into a single app. Through March 16, Adobe is offering unlimited image and video generation in up to 2K resolution on select subscription plans.
At a meeting between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Hegseth delivered an ultimatum: either Anthropic complies by Friday, or the Pentagon will invoke the Defense Production Act—a law that can force companies to cooperate—or classify Anthropic as a supply chain risk. According to Franklin Turner, a government contracts attorney at McCarter & English, such a move against Anthropic would be unprecedented and could trigger a wave of lawsuits.
Amodei argued that the existing safeguards don't interfere with current military operations. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is negotiating parallel AI contracts with Google, xAI, and OpenAI for battlefield applications, including autonomous drone swarms, robots, and cyberattacks. Elon Musk's xAI has already secured an agreement with the Pentagon to deploy on classified networks this week.
Claude Code users can now continue a locally running programming session from their smartphone, tablet, or browser. The session keeps running on the user's own machine - no data moves to the cloud. Local files, servers, and project configurations all remain accessible. Users connect through claude.ai/code or the Claude app for iOS and Android and can switch seamlessly between terminal, browser, and phone. If the network drops, the session automatically reconnects, though it ends after roughly ten minutes offline.
The feature is initially available as a research preview for Max subscribers, with Pro users next in line. Unlike Claude Code on the web, which has been running tasks in Anthropic's cloud environments since last year, remote control sessions run entirely on the user's own computer.
Anthropic now lets Claude switch independently between Excel and PowerPoint, for example, running an analysis and then building a presentation directly from the results. The company is also expanding Cowork for enterprise customers with private plugin marketplaces, letting admins curate and distribute plugin collections to specific teams. New templates cover HR, design, engineering, finance, asset management, and more.
In finance, new MCP interfaces for FactSet and MSCI provide real-time market data and index analysis; S&P Global (Capital IQ Pro) and LSEG have contributed their own plugins.
New third-party integrations include Google Workspace, DocuSign, Salesforce, Slack, and FactSet. Admins gain finer user-access controls plus OpenTelemetry support for cost and usage monitoring. The Excel-PowerPoint feature is available as a research preview on all paid plans. Cowork is Anthropic's desktop tool for agent-based office work; plugins were added in late January but have known security vulnerabilities.
Deepmind suggests AI should occasionally assign humans busywork so we do not forget how to do our jobs
AI systems should sometimes give tasks to humans they could easily handle themselves, just so people don’t forget how to do their jobs. That’s one of the more striking recommendations from a new Google Deepmind paper on how AI agents should delegate work.
OpenAI has shipped two API updates for developers: the new gpt-realtime-1.5 model for the real-time API is designed to make voice commands more reliable. In internal testing, OpenAI saw roughly a ten percent improvement in transcribing numbers and letters, a five percent bump in logical audio tasks, and seven percent better instruction following. The audio model has also been updated to version 1.5.
The Responses API also now supports WebSockets. Instead of retransmitting the full context with every request, this opens a persistent connection that only sends new data as it comes in. According to OpenAI, the change speeds up complex AI agents with many tool calls by 20 to 40 percent.
Chinese AI startup Deepseek has apparently trained its latest AI model on Nvidia's most powerful Blackwell chips, despite the US export ban. That's according to Reuters, citing a senior Trump administration official. The model is expected to drop next week. Rumors about chip smuggling had already been circulating since late last year.
The official says the Blackwell chips are believed to be in a data center in Inner Mongolia, and Deepseek is expected to scrub technical fingerprints of US chip usage before release. The official wouldn't say how Deepseek obtained the chips. Nvidia declined to comment, and neither Deepseek nor the US Department of Commerce responded to Reuters.
