Discover how Anthropic’s Skill‑creator lets you build fully functional Claude Skills via a guided conversational workflow—no coding or manual file edits.

Build Custom Claude Skills Fast with the New Skill‑Creator

Creating custom Skills with Claude: A hands-on guide to building tailored AI tools

The skill-creator Skill guides you through building any custom capability you can imagine. In this example, watch Claude ask clarifying questions and build a complete image editing skill—but you can create Skills for any workflow. No manual file editing required.
Skills work across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API. Available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-skills

Creating custom Skills with Claude

Discover Claude Skills — self-contained folders of instructions, assets, examples, and guardrails that produce consistent, on‑brand outputs across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API. Learn how to build and deploy them.

Reusable Claude Skills: Build Branded Templates, Guardrails & Workflows

Claude Skills: Specialized capabilities you can customize

Claude loads Skills—folders with instructions and resources—to excel at specialized tasks like creating presentations or following your brand guidelines.
Skills work together seamlessly. Watch Claude use our PowerPoint skill alongside a custom brand guidelines skill, then create concept art with a poster design skill. You can build your own Skills and use them across Claude.ai, Claude Code, and the API.
Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-skills

Investigative report and short documentary tracing how Nazi leaders amassed looted art and belongings, Allied recoveries, lost objects and the ongoing fight for restitution.

Where Did Nazi Leaders' Stolen Treasures End Up? The Aftermath of WWII Plunder

What Happened to the Personal Belongings of the SS Leaders After World War II?

After the fall of the Third Reich, the Allies uncovered an empire of stolen riches — paintings, jewels, uniforms, relics, and ritual objects amassed by the leaders of the SS and the Nazi Party. What had begun as systematic plunder turned into a personal obsession for figures such as Himmler, Göring, and Hitler, who transformed looting into a symbol of power. While Göring hoarded masterpieces in Carinhall, Himmler turned Wewelsburg Castle into a pagan sanctuary for the SS. Every stolen object — from a Flemish painting to a Totenkopf ring — carried the shadow of violence and ideology.

With the collapse of the Reich, these treasures were hidden in mines, castles, and monasteries to avoid capture. Guided by the Monuments Men, the Allies launched one of the greatest art recovery missions in history, retrieving thousands of works while others vanished amid the chaos of postwar Europe. Some of these possessions resurfaced in private collections, European museums, and even in South American residences where many Nazis found refuge. Even today, paintings, jewels, and confiscated documents continue to emerge, reminding the world of the scale of the Nazi cultural plunder.

Behind the art and luxurious possessions lay a story of human suffering: belongings stolen from Jewish families, confiscated from museums, and turned into domestic trophies by the wives of the Reich’s leaders. The postwar period did not end their story — decades of lawsuits, silences, and rediscoveries continue to reveal lost pieces. Each restitution represents more than an act of justice; it is an effort to restore memory to those who were robbed of everything. The personal belongings of the SS leaders remain silent witnesses to the greed, fanaticism, and impunity that accompanied Nazi power.

What Happened to the Personal Belongings of the SS Leaders After World War 2?

Anthropic’s new MCP connector connects Claude to Microsoft 365—SharePoint, Outlook and Teams—so teams can search, summarize, and act on documents, emails and calendars without leaving Claude.

Anthropic’s MCP Connector: Bring Microsoft 365 Docs, Email & Calendar into Claude

Connect Claude to Microsoft 365: Anthropic’s MCP Connector Brings Your Documents, Email, and Calendar into One Place

Connect Claude with Microsoft 365 using our MCP connector. Claude integrates with SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams to bring context from your documents, emails, and calendar directly into your conversations. Search across files, analyze email threads, and surface insights to help you reason through complex problems, make informed decisions, and take action faster—all without leaving Claude.

Connect Claude to Microsoft 365

Logan Kilpatrick traces how a 2018 Google Brain moonshot evolved into Veo 3 — the design choices, scaling breakthroughs, evaluation challenges, and the native-audio moment that made it viral.

Inside Veo 3 — From a Google Brain Moonshot to Video AI

How a Moonshot Led to Google DeepMind's Veo 3

Dumi Erhan, co-lead of the Veo project at Google DeepMind, joins host Logan Kilpatrick for a deep dive into the evolution of generative video models. They discuss the journey from early research in 2018 to the launch of state-of-the-art Veo 3 model with native audio generation. Learn about the technical hurdles in evaluating and scaling video models, the challenges of long-duration video coherence and how user feedback is shaping the future of AI-powered video creation.

Chapters: 
0:00 - Intro 
0:37 - Veo project's beginnings
1:34 - Veo's origins in Google Brain
2:58 - Video prediction and robotics applications
5:44 - Early progress and evaluation challenges
8:00 - How to evaluate video models
10:19 - Physics-based evaluations and their limitations
12:14 - The launch of the original Veo model
14:04 - Scaling challenges for video models
16:13 - The leap from Veo1 to Veo2
17:42 - The role of audio in Veo3 and early challenges
19:37 - Veo 3’s viral audio moment 
21:14 - User trends shaping Veo's roadmap
23:47 - Image-to-video vs. text-to-video complexity
25:57 - New prompting methods and user control
27:54 - Coherence in long video generation
33:26 - Genie 3 and world models
36:19 - The steerability challenge
42:47 - How video understanding aids generation
45:56 - Capability transfer and image data's role
48:15 - Future development and user feedback

Watch more Release Notes → https://goo.gle/4njokfg
Subscribe to Google for Developers → https://goo.gle/developers 

Speakers: Logan Kilpatrick, Dumitru Erhan

Products Mentioned:  Google AI, Gemini

See how NVIDIA's DGX Spark brings datacenter-level AI to desktops — faster iteration, on-premise privacy, and new workflows for researchers, artists, and startups.

DGX Spark: Portable Desktop Supercomputer Powering Local AI

Sparking Something Big: NVIDIA DGX Spark Has Arrived

It’s here! Go behind the scenes and see the delivery of NVIDIA DGX Sparks to top developers, researchers, creative studios, and roboticists. Experience the excitement at ASU, ComfyUI, FYI.AI, LM Studio, Meta/NYU, Ollama, Refik Anadol Studio, and Zipline as they help us launch the next chapter in desktop AI supercomputing.

🚀✨Explore DGX Spark: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/products/workstations/dgx-spark/

Recipients highlighted in video include:

🧑‍🎨 Refik Anadol, Director and Media Artist, Refik Anadol Studio  
🧑‍💻 Yagil Burowski, Founder and CEO, Studio  
🗽 Soumith Chintala, Head of PyTorch Meta, NYU
🕶️ ComfyAnonymous, Creator of ComfyUI and Co-Founder, Comfy Organization 
🌵 Lev Gonick, Enterprise CIO, Arizona State University
🧑‍🔬 Yann LeCun, VP and Chief Scientist, FAIR, Meta, NYU Professor  
🛩️ Joseph Mardall, Chief Hardware Officer, Zipline  
🦙 Jeffrey Morgan, CEO and Co-Founder, Ollama  
🤖 Joseph Nelson, Co-Founder and CEO, Roboflow
💬 will.i.am, Founder and CEO, FYI.AI
 
And, special thanks to 🤖 Serve Robotics.


#NVIDIA #SparkSomethingBig #DGXSpark #Developers #AIDesktop #FirstViews #Delivery #AI

Discover Claude Haiku 4.5 from Anthropic: a small LLM that delivers Sonnet 4–level coding performance at roughly one-third the cost and about twice the speed—ideal for IDEs, agents, and rapid prototyping.

Claude Haiku 4.5 — Fast, Low-Cost Small LLM Built for Coding

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5: A Faster, Cheaper Small Model Built for Coding

What was recently frontier is now cheaper and faster. 

Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, offers similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and twice the speed of Claude Sonnet 4. From multiple agent projects to rapid prototyping, Haiku 4.5 makes the coding experience more responsive than ever before.

Powered by Haiku 4.5, watch Claude Code design and ship a dark mode toggle for a food delivery app in sub-60 seconds. 

Learn more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5

Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5

Learn how NetApp AFX and the NetApp AI Data Engine with NVIDIA transform data storage, embeddings, and near-data compute to power agentic, multimodal AI at scale.

NetApp AFX & AI Data Engine with NVIDIA — Reinventing Data for Agentic AI

NetApp and NVIDIA: Revolutionary AI Products at a Revolutionary Time

Our CEO Jensen Huang and NetApp CEO George Kurian announce a historic partnership to deliver an enterprise-grade data platform purpose-built for AI reasoning.

Integrated with NVIDIA accelerated computing and software, learn how the NetApp AI Data Engine, which leverages the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, and the NetApp AFX streamline the entire data pipeline for any production environment.

Learn more: https://www.netapp.com/

Convert a single-player demo into a live multiplayer game using Codex CLI and GPT‑5 Codex. Learn installation, agentic planning, safe approvals, model switching, and Vercel deployment.

From Demo to Live Multiplayer: Build with Codex CLI & GPT‑5 Codex

Using OpenAI Codex CLI with GPT-5-Codex: How I Turned a Single-Player Demo into a Live Multiplayer Game

Learn how to use the Codex CLI + GPT-5-Codex in just 5 minutes.


In this tutorial, Eason Goodale and Romain Huet show you how to build a multiplayer game with Codex — without writing a single line of code! 

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:50 Planning the multiplayer implementation
1:38 Using CLI commands
2:55 Implementing the plan
3:31 Deploy the game
4:20 Playing the game


To learn more and get started:

Codex: openai.com/codex 
Codex CLI GitHub repo: https://github.com/openai/codex 
Developer docs: developers.openai.com/codex

Using OpenAI Codex CLI with GPT-5-Codex

Learn how the Responses API replaces chat primitives, enables agentic loops, hosted tools, stateful reasoning, and multimodal workflows—practical migration tips for GPT-5 apps.

Practical Guide to OpenAI's Responses API for Agentic, Multimodal AI

Build Hour: Responses API — A Practical Guide to Agentic, Multimodal AI

The Responses API is our flagship API for building agents. This Build Hour shows how the Responses API unlocks persistent reasoning, hosted tools, and multimodal workflows for GPT-5.

Steve Coffey (API Engineering) covers:
• How to use built-in tools, call multiple tools in one API request, and preserve reasoning tokens across turns
• How the Responses API is faster and more cost-efficient
• Live demo: building a simulator to bring a day in the life of an OpenAI engineer to life
• Live Q&A

👉 Follow along with the code repo: https://github.com/openai/build-hours
👉 Responses API Docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/responses
👉 Migrate to Responses API Guide: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/migrate-to-responses
👉 Sign up for upcoming live Build Hours: https://webinar.openai.com/buildhours/

Build Hour: Responses API

HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah on agent.ai, metaprompting and practical playbooks for building AI agents—deterministic flows, data connectors, agent-to-agent wiring and real-world use cases.

Dharmesh Shah on Building AI Agents, Metaprompting & Agent Networks

Agents, Metaprompting and Tech-powered Parenting with HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah

HubSpot Cofounder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah, joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI agents are reshaping work, leadership, and creativity. From culture-as-a-product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still betting on humans, even in the age of powerful AI tools. From building culture as a product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still betting on humans,  even in the age of powerful AI tools.

Cam’s notes on Substack: promptedwithcam.substack.com

A practical Canva playbook for journalists: organize assets, set a Brand Kit, visualize donation impact, and repurpose designs to build high‑converting fundraising campaigns—no designer required.

Canva Playbook for Journalists — Build Fundraising Campaigns That Convert

Canva for Journalists presents "Build fundraising campaigns that convert"

Originally presented at INN Days 2025 in Minneapolis, this session is built for journalists—because the stories you tell deserve to be seen, supported, and sustained.

In this practical, hands-on workshop, we’ll show you how to turn powerful journalism into eye-catching campaigns that spark donations and deepen supporter trust. Whether you're prepping a year-end appeal or a recurring giving push, you’ll walk away with time-saving tools and visual storytelling tips to boost your fundraising game.

What you’ll learn:

- How to design fundraising assets that build trust and drive giving
- Smart ways to repurpose content across channels—without starting from scratch
- How to create campaign kits for social, email, and print
- Tips to make your reports and data feel human (not dry!)

Whether you’re a newsroom of one or many, you’ll leave feeling more confident, creative, and campaign-ready.

🔍 Explore more ways Canva supports journalists: www.canva.com/journalism

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