OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta expand enterprise, cyber and agent work

OpenAI and Oracle plan business workflows inside ChatGPT

OpenAI and Oracle said they are expanding their partnership to bring Oracle applications and data into ChatGPT, alongside new Oracle products built with OpenAI models. The proposed Oracle AI Workspace is intended to let employees find information and complete approved workflows across finance, procurement and planning systems while using their organisation’s existing permissions and approvals.

The companies also announced an AI Security Mesh, an SMB bundle that combines ChatGPT Business and Codex with Oracle products and cloud credits, and an App Composer for building internal applications against approved Oracle data. U.S. customers will be able to buy access to the OpenAI API, Codex and ChatGPT Work through Oracle Marketplace. The operational examples and adoption figures, including Oracle’s reported 130,000 active ChatGPT users and more than 95,000 active Codex users, come from the partners; the integrations’ practical reliability will depend on how each customer configures access and review.

Anthropic reports advanced vulnerability-research findings

Anthropic said an unreleased internal research model helped identify five attack chains affecting widely used browsers and operating systems, including a one-click Chrome remote-code-execution chain, a Safari chain, an Android lock-screen bypass, a Windows denial-of-service path and a Linux zero-click chain. It says the work involved multi-step exploits in open-source and proprietary software, with little or no user interaction in some cases.

The company says it reported the vulnerabilities through coordinated disclosure, giving vendors 90 days to patch and another 45 days before details beyond public advisories are discussed. That reporting process matters: this is Anthropic’s account of its internal research, not an independent assessment of model capability, and the public descriptions deliberately omit many operational details. Still, it is a concrete signal that vulnerability research is becoming a central capability-and-risk test for frontier systems.

Claude agreement broadens government pricing and support

Anthropic also announced a new General Services Administration agreement that it says gives U.S. federal, state, local and tribal government buyers a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API. The company says the discount covers direct purchases now and cloud-provider purchases in coming months, with no minimum-spend commitment.

Anthropic says about 500 U.S. government organisations now use Claude and estimates the arrangement could save government buyers $1 billion. It is also launching a program to help agencies implement the tools. Those usage, savings and deployment examples are vendor claims, rather than independently audited outcomes, but the agreement is another move to put frontier-model procurement and implementation inside established public-sector channels.

Drug-development collaborations remain largely preclinical

Anthropic described research partnerships with BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines and The Column Group, as well as its own drug-discovery work. It says Claude is being used across work such as target research, molecule design, manufacturing planning and regulatory or clinical-trial preparation.

One reported Generate Biomedicines case used Claude Code to propose a shorter genetic design for a CAR T-cell treatment; Anthropic says lab tests found stronger receptor production and tumour-cell killing. But the company also says most of the work is still preclinical, not yet testing drugs in humans. The announcements point to a broader effort to learn from real programmes, not evidence that AI has solved clinical development or established new therapies.

Meta brings Muse to Singapore with local connectors

Meta launched its Muse personal AI agent in Singapore across iOS, Android and the web. It says users can connect Gmail, Google Calendar and Instagram, while early local partners include Shopee, Grab, Singapore Airlines, Agoda, ShopBack, Klook, Trip.com and Lazada. Some connector experiences will roll out progressively rather than arriving at launch.

Meta says Muse uses a dedicated cloud environment called Muse Secure VM to store connected-service data and credentials while keeping passwords and payment methods out of the agent’s view. It says the user chooses access and the service asks before sensitive actions such as sending an email or making a purchase. Those are Meta’s design and security claims; the important test will be whether the permission model stays understandable as the number of connected services and delegated tasks grows.