This morning brings plans for a £100m UK AI Biosecurity Lab, with spending due to be unveiled in Wednesday’s Budget. The workplace updates include Claude’s combined chat and Cowork experience reaching eligible Enterprise organisations, and notebook controls arriving inside Gemini conversations.
New releases
Claude Enterprise. Enterprise administrators can now enable combined chat and Cowork on web, desktop and mobile, with cloud work that continues after a laptop closes and an optional Efficient mode limited to Sonnet and Haiku; automatic enablement begins on 16 November 2026 where Chat and Cloud code execution and file creation are enabled and administrators have not explicitly kept it off. More
Claude Code. Version 2.1.310 extends the Monitor tool and plugin monitors to Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex and Microsoft Foundry, and to setups with telemetry or nonessential traffic disabled, allowing Claude to follow background activity while a conversation continues. More
Gemini and Gemini Notebook. Notebook management is rolling out inside Gemini chats on web and mobile for adults with personal accounts and users across Workspace editions with both services enabled, allowing notebook creation, source edits and questions in one place; the connection is on by default outside the EEA, where users must enable it themselves. More
GitHub Copilot in Microsoft Teams. Paid GitHub Copilot users with Teams Public Developer Preview and cloud sandboxes enabled can now receive repository notifications and delegate coding work through one consolidated GitHub app; existing GitHub notifications users should update, while users of the legacy GitHub app must move before it retires on 16 November 2026. More
Elsewhere in AI
The UK plans to invest £100m in an AI Biosecurity Lab, with the chancellor due to unveil spending to strengthen national defences in Wednesday’s Budget, the BBC reports. Read
Anthropic has struck a deal with UK buyout group Hg to back a new European consultancy advising companies on deploying AI, the Financial Times reports. Read
Spain’s opposition People’s party faced criticism over a deepfake campaign video depicting people linked to the Socialists apparently admitting wrongdoing, The Guardian reports. Read