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Claude is turning into an office suite

Credited to TechCentral · techcentral.co.za · 6h ago

Anthropic is building something that looks increasingly like an office suite. On Thursday, the AI company added live data dashboards and animated video explainers to its Claude chatbot, and moved its document, presentation and design tools out of testing and onto every Claude plan, including the free one.

The additions put Anthropic in more direct competition with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for everyday office work, and with business intelligence tools such as Tableau and Microsoft’s Power BI for data analysis.

They also complicate Anthropic’s relationship with Microsoft, one of its biggest partners. Microsoft already uses Claude models inside Copilot, its own AI assistant, and in March unveiled a Copilot agent tool based on Anthropic’s Claude Cowork product.

The bigger of the two new tools, Claude Dashboards, connects to company data warehouses – Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks and Snowflake – and to CRM systems such as Salesforce. Users ask a question in plain language, and Claude writes the database queries, builds the charts and keeps the dashboard current as the underlying data changes.

Each chart shows the query behind it, which Anthropic says lets users check how a figure was produced – a nod to concerns about AI models presenting confident but wrong answers. Dashboards can be exported to analytics tools including Amplitude, Grafana, Hex and Mixpanel, with Looker, monday.com and Tableau support to follow.

Dashboards is in beta on all paid Claude plans. On enterprise plans, it is switched off until an administrator enables it.

Video without the deepfakes

The second tool, Claude Motion, turns prompts into short animated explainers – for example, a quarterly report condensed into a 30-second video for a staff meeting, or an animated chart for a board presentation. Users can edit the result in a built-in editor or by asking Claude for changes, and export it as an MP4 file.

Unlike OpenAI’s Sora or Google’s Veo, Claude Motion does not use a video-generation model. Claude writes code that animates text, charts, shapes and images, so the output contains no generated footage and no AI-generated people. Animations can be opened for further editing in tools from companies including Adobe, Descript, Runway and Luma AI.

Motion is in beta on Anthropic’s Team and Enterprise plans only.

Anthropic has not introduced new prices for the tools. Both count towards each plan’s existing usage limits, and longer animations use more of that allowance.

Claude Docs, Slides and Design, which became generally available on Thursday, gain team collaboration, mobile editing, customer-managed encryption keys and improved export to PowerPoint, PDF and Google Slides.

The launch is the latest move in an increasingly aggressive contest between AI developers for business customers. Anthropic and OpenAI have been battling for enterprise market share, with workplace productivity – rather than consumer chatbots – emerging as a key source of revenue. — (c) 2026 NewsCentral Media, with additional reporting (c) Reuters

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UOB signs AWS MOU to explore hybrid cloud, AI

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Google Cloud introduces Gemini agent for work as AI race heats up

Credited to The Economic Times · economictimes.indiatimes.com · 8h ago

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Alphabet's Google Cloud on Thursday introduced the Gemini agent, a single AI agent for work that can answer questions, handle tasks, create content and write code.

The move comes as tech companies race to sell AI that can work autonomously.

The announcement comes after OpenAI 's September launch of always-on agents called dots that chase user goals across apps on their own. Earlier last month, Meta released Muse, a personal AI agent that can shop, book travel, send emails and make payments for users.

Alphabet shares were up marginally in early trading.

* The Gemini agent plans the work, uses tools, connects to a company's business systems and returns finished work in documents, email and developer environments, Google said.

* The agent works directly inside Google Workspace apps including Gmail, Docs, Sheets and Calendar, and can also be used through Microsoft 365 and Slack.

* It picks the best model for each task, currently running on Google's Gemini models and Anthropic's Claude models, with other models to be added later.

* Users can create "coworker agents" that act as team members, with their own email address and access only to the information they are given.

* Versions built for financial services and legal work are now in preview, and versions for government, healthcare and retail are coming soon.

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