Anthropic has begun inserting hard-to-detect watermarks into outputs from some Claude models, raising concerns over copyright and privacy. The watermark can remain after copy-and-paste and may persist after edits, and Anthropic says it is meant to distinguish human and AI writing. Critics warn the company could act as sole arbiter, while developers question impacts on text quality and on lightly edited human writing. Anthropic says it will provide a free API and that the mark indicates processing, not authorship.

The spread of AI agents is changing not only how people work but also what companies need from work PCs, TechRadar said. Instead of simply running software, PCs are increasingly expected to support employees working alongside agents that remember context, automate parts of workflows and use approved tools. This is shifting buying criteria toward strategic device management, local AI processing, and secure handling of sensitive data. Organisational strategy and incentives are also lagging, it said.