TREE NEWS update: Anthropic launched Claude Duet, an around-the-clock AI agent, pitting it against Meta and OpenAI in the AI agent race. The launch came as Meta reported Q3 revenue and Q4 guidance above expectations and raised the lower bound of its AI capital spending guidance, while also planning to issue new non-voting shares. Meta said its Muse product has drawn tens of millions of users and that first-week shopping volume exhausted its quota.
Anthropic Launches 24/7 AI Agent Claude Duet to Rival Meta, OpenAI
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Anthropic's move pushes the agent race from demos into always-on availability, a shift that matters less for model quality than for reliability and cost at scale — the operational bar where consumer trust is won or lost. Meta's raised AI capex floor and Muse's first-week quota exhaustion show demand-side pressure colliding with infrastructure limits, a tension that will shape how credibly any 24/7 agent can be sustained. The open question is whether round-the-clock agents become a genuine differentiator or a table-stakes feature quickly matched by rivals.
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