The AI landscape, explained.

Anthropic said it is launching Claude Frontier Academy, a $100 million program to train 10,000 enterprise AI engineers by 2027. The move targets the bottleneck in AI deployment: people who can turn models into governed production systems.

Shopify’s Canvas moves Sidekick into a whole-store design workspace, using real theme code and live previews. But the first rollout excludes third-party themes, translations, Markets, app blocks and theme updates, which limits who can adopt it now.

Audible announced staged US and UK beta features for audiobooks. Character Guide is available on select titles now; Interactive Story rolls out this fall, while Visual Explorer is coming soon. The schedule and performance claims come from Audible.

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is positioned as the API’s fastest tier, with vendor claims of up to 8x faster token generation. The trade-offs are higher cost, low rate limits and no EU regional processing endpoint.

Anthropic says Sonnet 5.5 keeps Sonnet 5 pricing while cutting latency and task cost, but its docs also warn developers about five breaking changes before upgrading.

Google says Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders through Fairwind while broader access waits for safety testing. The model is aimed at long-horizon coding and cybersecurity, but its benchmark claims are company-reported.

Documents described by The Guardian say Bodleian material digitised with OpenAI fed a model-training set. Oxford says the use was disclosed, non-exclusive and limited to out-of-copyright works.

EMBL-EBI and partners added predicted protein complexes for more than 2,800 viruses to AlphaFold Database. The release may speed structural biology, but it does not forecast transmissibility or mutation effects.

Google says Project Suncatcher’s first TPU satellite test is scheduled for next week, using a prototype in orbit to measure radiation, vibration and cooling limits before any larger plan for space-based AI compute can be considered.