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BUILDING CLAUDE CODE: HOW WE USE SKILLS

Anthropic's internal framework treats AI "skills" as functional folders containing scripts and assets rather than static text, using the file system for context engineering. Nine core categories emerged, with product verification and "Gotchas" sections identified as the highest-leverage components for improving output reliability. This shift toward progressive disclosure allows agents to fetch specific data and runbooks only when needed, reducing context noise and error rates.

MEASURING PROGRESS TOWARD AGI: A COGNITIVE FRAMEWORK

Google DeepMind released a paper outlining a cognitive taxonomy to measure AI progress toward AGI, identifying 10 key cognitive abilities like perception, learning, and reasoning. It proposes a three-stage evaluation protocol comparing AI performance to human benchmarks. A Kaggle hackathon, with a $200,000 prize pool, invites researchers to develop evaluations for five under-assessed abilities, using a new Community Benchmarks platform.

NVIDIA SAYS IT IS RESTARTING PRODUCTION OF AI CHIPS FOR SALE IN CHINA

Nvidia has restarted the manufacture of H200 processors for sale in China. The US announced that it would allow Nvidia to sell its H200 processor in China in December, as long as 25% of sales were shared with the US government. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced at the company's GTC event on Tuesday that demand signals out of China have strengthened in recent weeks and that the company's supply chain is getting fired up. The company has not commented on how much it expects to earn from H200 sales in China, but the Chinese market is estimated to be worth tens of billions of dollars a year.

MICROSOFT SEEKS MORE COHERENCE IN AI EFFORTS WITH COPILOT REORGANIZATION

Microsoft is reorganizing the teams that work on its flagship Copilot AI product. It is unifying the teams that work on its Microsoft 365 Copilot productivity offerings and the consumer version of Copilot. Jacob Andreou, who leads product and growth for Microsoft AI, will become the executive vice-president of Copilot and will be in charge of its design, product, growth, and engineering. Mustafa Suleman, Microsoft AI's chief executive, will focus primarily on the company's proprietary models and on achieving superintelligence. The new setup will enable the company to deliver a more coherent and competitive experience.

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