Anthropic Brings Claude Directly to Chrome
Along with Gemini’s Image Tools Just Got a Big Upgrade
TLDR; In today’s Signal
Domino Introduces AI-Enabled Sunrise DFE for Label Presses
Fujitsu Unveils AI Agent Platform for Healthcare Workflows
AI Enables Climate-Smart Rice Farming in India
Perplexity Launches Comet Plus AI Subscription
Alibaba Open-Sources Speech-to-Video Avatar Model
Walmart Unveils AI Tools, Fulfillment, and Incentives
Attio raises $52M to scale AI-native CRM
THE AI SIGNAL PICKS
Fujitsu Unveils AI Agent Platform for Healthcare Workflows
Fujitsu has launched a secure, AI-driven orchestrator platform tailored for Japan’s healthcare sector. It integrates specialized AI agents from data structuring to interoperability to streamline medical operations, reducing patient wait times and freeing clinicians for core care duties. Developed under the Fujitsu Uvance initiative in collaboration with NVIDIA, this platform promises to transform efficiency, sustainability, and care delivery across institutions.Domino Introduces AI-Enabled Sunrise DFE for Label Presses
Domino Printing Sciences has unveiled the latest Sunrise Digital Front End (DFE) an AI-powered, Harlequin RIP-based workflow solution for its N-Series digital label presses. The upgrade features Label Studio for streamlined job setup, real-time inline variable data processing (e.g., 2D codes), and Domino Viewer for live press monitoring. Designed to boost productivity, uptime, and cost efficiency across label production.
AI Enables Climate-Smart Rice Farming in India
Mitti Labs, a New York-based AI startup, has partnered with The Nature Conservancy to tackle methane emissions from rice paddies through precise satellite- and radar-powered monitoring. Their digital MRV (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) platform covers about 10 million hectares, one-quarter of India's rice farms and enables farmers to adopt regenerative practices while earning carbon credits, boosting both environmental impact and livelihoods.
OpenAI strengthens ChatGPT’s crisis response capabilities
OpenAI has enhanced ChatGPT’s handling of mental health crises. GPT-5 now lowers risky responses in distressing conversations by 25% compared to GPT-4o via a “safe completions” method. The update also reinforces safeguards in extended sessions and boosts detection of emotional reliance, aiming to ensure users in crisis receive empathy and direction toward care.
THE BIG LEAP
Signal Scoop: Anthropic has quietly unleashed a research-preview extension, Claude for Chrome, enabling its AI assistant to navigate, click, and perform actions directly within users’ browsers. Initially limited to 1,000 Max-plan subscribers, the move marks a major shift in AI productivity tools and raises pressing safety and security concerns. Anthropic is inviting real-world feedback to harden defenses ahead of broader deployment.
Claude for Chrome enables AI to see what you see, click buttons, fill forms, and tackle tasks like managing calendars, drafting emails, or running tests within your browser. A sidecar interface maintains context across your browsing experience.
The extension is available only to 1,000 trusted users on the paid Max plan, who can join a waitlist. Anthropic plans to expand access gradually as it strengthens safety safeguards.
Browsing AIs face high-stakes risks like prompt injection, malicious instructions hidden in web content that can cause Claude to delete files, steal data, or perform financial actions. In early red-teaming tests without mitigations, the attack success rate was a concerning 23.6%.
Anthropic is deploying layered countermeasures: granular site permissions, confirmations before sensitive actions, stricter system prompts, classifiers for suspicious input, and blocking high-risk site categories. These controls have already reduced some attack vectors to 0% success in limited tests.
What You Can’t Miss
This isn’t just another AI update, it marks a pivotal moment where AI can act autonomously within your browser, making web interaction seamless yet alarmingly powerful. Without strong safety guardrails, this integration could expose users to stealthy, high-impact attacks that compromise data or systems.
Gemini’s Image Tools Just Got a Big Upgrade
Signal Scoop: Google DeepMind's latest Gemini app upgrade with enhanced photo editing capabilities and natural language controls, dubbed internally as "nano-banana" Whether you're restyling, blending scenes, or generating video from your creations, Gemini helps you do it with precision and creativity. All outputs are clearly marked with watermarks and SynthID metadata, ensuring transparency starting August 26, 2025.
The Full Picture
The enhanced model ensures that edited photos of people or pets maintain their core identity even when adding a retro hairstyle, costume, or placing them in new scenes.
Users can blend multiple photos, modify settings, swap styles, or merge yourself with your pet, all while keeping the subjects recognizable.
Gemini now supports conversational edits: start with a blank scene and add elements step-by-step paint walls, then add furniture guided entirely through dialogue.
All edited or generated images feature a visible watermark and embedded SynthID metadata to clearly indicate AI origin. The update is live now for both free and paid Gemini users worldwide.
What You Can’t Miss
This update transforms how personal and creative AI editing can be finally allowing Gemini to modify photos while genuinely preserving who and what matters in the image. It’s no longer just about flashy visual effects; it’s about trust, identity, and creative control, all delivered transparently.
ON THE AI EDGE
Perplexity Launches Comet Plus AI Subscription
Perplexity today rolled out Comet Plus, a $5/month AI-powered subscription that offers users access to premium content from vetted publishers and journalists. It introduces a forward-looking revenue model—distributing earnings across human visits, search citations, and agent actions—aligning publisher compensation with the evolving dynamics of AI-driven internet usage.
Alibaba Open-Sources Speech-to-Video Avatar Model
Alibaba has released Wan2.2-S2V, its latest open-source speech-to-video model, enabling creators to animate portrait photos into lifelike avatars that speak, sing, and move capturing full-body motion across different framing styles. By compressing historical frames into compact latent representations, it supports stable, long-form video generation with reduced compute. Available now on Hugging Face, GitHub, and ModelScope.
Walmart Unveils AI Tools, Fulfillment, and Incentives
At the Let’s Grow! Marketplace Seller Summit, Walmart introduced AI-powered listing tools, Smart Assistant support, and streamlined shipping services to boost seller efficiency. They also expanded next-day delivery to major U.S. metros and rolled out compelling fee discounts and referral incentives strengthening omnichannel integration and seller competitiveness.Saudi’s Humain to Launch AI Data Centers With US Chips
Saudi Arabia’s new state-backed AI company, Humain, has begun building its first data centers in Riyadh and Dammam, aiming to go live in early 2026 with 100-megawatt capacity at each site. The project is powered by a strategic import of U.S. semiconductors including Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips, backed by initial approval for 18,000 units marking a major leap in sovereign AI infrastructure development. Additionally, AMD has committed to a $10 billion collaboration to expand compute capabilities.
AI START-UP NEWS
Attio raises $52M to scale AI-native CRM
Attio, an AI-native CRM platform designed for go-to-market teams, has secured $52M in Series B funding led by GV, with participation from Redpoint Ventures, Balderton Capital, Point Nine, and 01A. The funding will accelerate R&D, strengthen its AI-driven architecture (real-time ingestion, programmable interfaces, predictive intelligence), and support global expansion.
Eyebot raises $20M to expand eye care access
Boston-based Eyebot develops 90-second self-service kiosks that provide instant, doctor-verified eyeglass prescriptions. The startup secured $20 million in Series A funding led by General Catalyst, with participation from AlleyCorp, Baukunst, Village Global, and Ubiquity Ventures. The funds will support nationwide kiosk deployment, team growth, and expanded partnerships with eye care providers.Oxford Spin-out OrganOx Sells for $1.5B.
NEW TOOLS, NEW POSSIBILITIES
Saner.AI: ADHD-friendly AI personal assistant that helps manage calendar.
Deepgram: A speech-to-text platform offering accurate voice transcription
Deforum Studio: An AI tool combining Generative Video and Text-to-Video
Peerlist: Generates videos with synchronized audio from text
Opal: A no-code platform to build AI-powered applications
AI CAREER HORIZON
Hume AI: Machine Learning Engineer (NYC - Remote)
Microsoft: Senior Researcher - Generative AI Frontiers (Washington, US)
Google: Software Engineer III, AI/ML (Zürich, Switzerland)
Anthropic: Machine Learning Systems Engineer (San Francisco, CA)
OpenAI: Analytics Data Engineer (San Francisco, CA)