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Human skills are becoming the most critical advantage in the age of AI. Explore what human skills are, why they matter, and how leadership and L&D teams can develop them across organizations. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.
Microsoft has unveiled Frontier Company, making a $2.5 billion bet that the next competitive battleground in artificial intelligence will not be foundation models, but helping enterprises put those models to work.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, positioning the model as its most autonomous mid-tier offering to date and a lower-cost alternative to its flagship Opus 4.8 system. The company said the model can plan multi-step tasks, operate tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete agentic work at a level that previously required larger and more expensive models.
Microsoft is speeding up its quantum-safe security timeline, saying advances in quantum computing and new federal requirements have pushed post-quantum cryptography from a future planning issue into an immediate engineering priority.
The University of Connecticut has promoted to chief information officer an IT staff member who’s been with the institution since the mid-90s.
The University of Rochester has named a new interim CIO and elevated the role so that it reports directly to the institution’s president.
The AI industry’s biggest names are investing in more than just models and infrastructure — they’re focusing on workforce readiness. OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Amazon are backing Raise US, a new nonprofit that aims to raise $1 billion to help American workers prepare for an AI-driven economy.
Microsoft has made point-in-time restore generally available for Windows 11, giving users and IT administrators a built-in way to roll back PCs after bad updates, driver problems, app corruption, or other issues.
Anthropic is adding new enterprise deployment options for Claude Desktop, saying organizations that use the app through Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry can now access the full desktop experience across chat, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code.
Anthropic has introduced Claude Science, a new AI workbench for scientists that integrates research tools, produces auditable artifacts, and connects to specialized life sciences models and workflows from NVIDIA.
Broadcom’s 2026 private cloud report says enterprise AI is moving from experimentation into production, with private cloud emerging as the preferred deployment environment for AI inference among surveyed organizations.
Higher education was designed for a world in which access to knowledge, expertise, feedback, mentorship, and authentic learning experiences were inherently scarce. By making many forms of intelligence increasingly abundant, AI is inherently redefining the existing paradigm.
High-impact AI implementations are more likely to treat data architecture, governance, and operationalization as strategic requirements, according to TDWI’s 2026 Blueprint report.