28 Aug 2025

AI News Digest

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Today's Summary

Anthropic is testing out “Claude for Chrome,” a browser extension that acts like your personal web assistant, but with some guardrails since it’s still figuring out security kinks. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot is making its way to Samsung’s 2025 TVs, turning your living room into a conversational AI experience, which could set a new standard for how we interact with our screens. In the business world, TCS is betting big on AI by forming a dedicated division, while Perplexity’s Comet Plus is trying to find a middle ground between AI-generated content and paying publishers fairly—both moves showing how AI is reshaping industries from IT services to media.

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Anthropic launches Claude for Chrome — a browser agent that can see pages and act for you

Anthropic has begun a controlled research preview of “Claude for Chrome,” a Chrome extension that embeds a Claude AI agent into the browser. The pilot is rolling out to 1,000 paying Max-plan users and a waitlist, letting Claude keep context of open tabs, read page contents, click buttons, fill forms and perform multi-step web tasks. Anthropic framed the release as a safety-driven experiment: its red-team testing found prompt-injection and other browser-specific attack vectors, so access is limited while the company develops mitigations. Why it matters: browser-embedded agents are a major step toward truly agentic consumer AI (automating complex web workflows), but they also expose new security and governance challenges that will shape enterprise adoption and regulation.

Microsoft’s Copilot arrives on Samsung’s 2025 TVs and smart monitors

Samsung and Microsoft have integrated Microsoft Copilot into Samsung’s 2025 lineup of TVs and smart monitors (Micro RGB, Neo QLED, OLED, The Frame Pro/The Frame and M7–M9 monitors). Copilot appears as a friendly animated on-screen assistant that users can summon with the remote or voice to get recommendations, spoiler-free episode recaps, answers, and personalized results (with sign-in). The rollout—announced in Samsung’s Aug. 27 press release and covered by outlets today—pushes advanced conversational AI onto the biggest consumer screens, signaling further platform-level partnerships and new use cases for living-room AI experiences.

Funding stampede: TechCrunch catalogues 33 U.S. AI startups that raised $100M+ in 2025

TechCrunch’s Aug. 27 roundup lists 33 U.S. AI companies that have cleared $100 million or more in funding so far in 2025 — from healthcare and infrastructure plays to research labs and infrastructure providers. The piece compiles recent mega‑rounds (examples include EliseAI’s $250M Series E and several research‑lab and infra raises) and highlights sustained VC appetite for capital‑intensive AI startups. Why it matters: the frequency of large rounds signals robust investor conviction in AI commercialization, fuels hiring and product scaling, and raises the stakes for competition and consolidation among startups and incumbent cloud/AI vendors.

TCS forms dedicated AI and services transformation unit, names Amit Kapur to lead it

Reuters reported on Aug. 26 that Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has created a dedicated AI and services transformation business and will appoint longtime executive Amit Kapur to head the unit starting in September. The move — the first among major Indian IT firms to house AI under its own business unit — comes after TCS announced plans earlier this year to cut 12,000 jobs. Why it matters: the formalization of an AI unit at a global IT leader signals a shift toward packaged AI offerings and commercialization of services at scale, likely accelerating client AI projects, reskilling/hiring priorities, and further organizational restructurings across the outsourcing sector.

DeepLearning.AI launches short course on building agent-driven knowledge graphs (Agentic Knowledge Graph Construction)

DeepLearning.AI published a new short course, Agentic Knowledge Graph Construction, teaching developers how to use multi-agent workflows and Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) to design and build knowledge graphs (with hands-on code examples and Neo4j integration). The ~3h 18m intermediate course (instructor: Andreas Kollegger of Neo4j) covers agentic schema extraction from structured and unstructured data, graph construction, and connecting graphs for improved retrieval systems. Why it matters: it gives practitioners a practical bridge between RAG-style retrieval and structured knowledge graphs — a growing pattern for making LLM outputs more accurate, explainable and suitable for production use — and is a timely, focused learning resource for engineers wanting to combine agents, RAG, and graph databases.

Perplexity launches Comet Plus — a $5 plan that shares 80% of revenue with participating publishers

Perplexity announced Comet Plus, a $5/month subscription product that will give participating publishers 80% of revenue tied to users’ interactions with their content; the company set aside a $42.5M pool to compensate early partners. The offering is positioned to address publisher concerns about AI summarizers siphoning traffic and ad revenue by creating a clearer revenue-share model tied to AI-driven consumption. Why it matters: Comet Plus signals one concrete business-model attempt to reconcile generative AI search with publisher economics — it could influence how AI search products surface and pay for source content, affect publisher negotiations, and shape user access to premium content via AI assistants.