📩 Workday Wrap – Your Daily Tech, Internships, AI & Business Breakdown (2/26/25) 🚀
Hey, welcome to Workday Wrap! Here’s everything you need to know today in tech, AI, startups, career, and business—without the fluff. Let’s dive in.👇
👀 Today’s Top Stories:
🧠 Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet – A new hybrid reasoning AI with built-in coding capabilities
🔮 Perplexity unveils 'Comet' browser – A new AI-powered competitor to Google Chrome
📊 Microsoft tests free Office with ads – Ad-supported Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in beta
❌ Chegg sues Google over AI search summaries – Accusing them of scraping content & killing traffic
🤖 Google launches Gemini Code Assist – A free AI coding assistant taking on GitHub Copilot
📈 Fed holds rates, Nvidia earnings cause AI stock swings
🚀 Top tech internships you should apply for today
Let’s get into it.👇
🧠 Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is here – Anthropic just launched its latest AI model, improving reasoning, math, and programming abilities.
Claude Code introduced – A built-in AI coding assistant that edits, tests, and debugs code in real time.
Where to access it – Available via Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI at the same cost as Claude 3.5.
🔮 Perplexity unveils 'Comet' browser
AI-powered browsing – Perplexity is building Comet, an AI-driven web browser aimed at challenging Google Chrome.
Limited details – The announcement was cryptic, with no feature list or release date shared.
Beta access available – Users can sign up now, and sharing on social media boosts your chances of early entry.
📊 Microsoft tests free Office with ads
New Office model – Microsoft is experimenting with a free, ad-supported version of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Ads everywhere – Expect banner ads and video commercials while you work.
Limited features – No local file storage (OneDrive only), and some tools like pivot tables and dictation are missing.
❌ Chegg sues Google over AI search summaries
Chegg vs. Google – Chegg is suing Google, claiming AI-generated search summaries steal their content and tank their traffic.
Antitrust accusations – The lawsuit alleges Google is forcing businesses to provide content for AI models without compensation.
Could set a precedent – More companies might follow Chegg’s lead and push back against AI content scraping.
🤖 Google launches free AI coding assistant
Introducing Gemini Code Assist – A free AI-powered coding tool that works with VS Code, JetBrains, and other IDEs.
More generous limits – 180,000 code completions/month (compared to GitHub Copilot’s 2,000 free completions).
Google’s strategy – Giving developers free tools now to hook them into premium enterprise plans later.
📈 Market & economy
Meta faces hiring lawsuit – Meta is being sued for allegedly prioritizing foreign workers over U.S. citizens.
🔗 Full story hereFed holds interest rates steady – The Fed announced no rate cuts until late 2025, making borrowing more expensive for startups.
🔗 Full story hereAI stocks on edge – AI stocks see major swings ahead of Nvidia’s Q1 earnings report, which could set the tone for AI investments.
🔗 Full story here
🚀 Career & internship opportunities
💼 Top tech internships hiring now:
Parsons – Application Specialist Intern
ServiceNow – Technical Accelerator Consultant Intern
Leidos – Software Engineering Intern
Samsung – AI Analyst Intern
📢 What’s next?
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Karmanya