Anthropic merged its Claude Cowork agentic tool into the Claude chatbot interface so prompts route automatically between chat and cowork. The change also introduced Claude Slides and Claude Docs in beta, starting with Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers first. Claude Slides enables creating/editing PowerPoint slides and exporting them, while Claude Docs adds collaborative document drafting/editing with export to Word or Google Docs.
Tech firms including Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Palantir and Anduril have expanded into branded clothing, treating it as limited, label-led merch rather than a normal apparel line. Nvidia’s woollen jumper sells for $178 (£132) and its drops typically sell out quickly. This shifts tech branding toward scarcity, identity and reputation management, with some buyers attracted for controversy and critics arguing it aims to improve public conversation.
Anthropic and OpenAI proposed embedding third-party safety evaluators inside frontier AI companies to report incidents, assess alignment, and publish findings. The proposal includes Anthropic committing to give independent evaluators like METR and Redwood Research “unprecedented” access, but it leaves open the evaluators’ actual access and decision rights. Independence could improve, but observers say details like legal mandates, access to training checkpoints, and time limits will determine whether evaluators act as true watchdogs or operate within the companies’ constraints.
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Claude Cowork and chat are being merged into a single Claude experience, so prompts and tasks can be handled end-to-end in one place. The rollout starts for Pro and Max plans beginning “Starting today,” with availability in the Claude app on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks. This consolidates the separate Cowork and chat surfaces, changing how users initiate and hand off work in the app.
Anthropic merged Claude Chat and Cowork into one interface that can handle both quick answers and multi-step work with connected tools. The change starts on Wednesday for Pro and Max users rolling out over the next few weeks. Anthropic is also moving Claude Design into conversations and adding Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta on paid plans so context, skills, and connectors follow the same conversation instead of switching products.
Anthropic merged the Claude chat and Cowork front ends so users can access chat, Cowork, and Artifacts in one window without choosing between tabs. The rollout starts on Claude Pro and Max plans and will arrive on web, desktop, and mobile over the coming weeks. Claude now automatically routes requests to the right capability and adds presentation and Docs features, with those capabilities expanding to free and team tiers later.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed that frontier AI companies provide embedded third-party evaluators to verify safety practices and report incidents across models and training pipelines, and multiple other major AI leaders endorsed the idea. Salaries for METR’s evaluator role top out at about $687,000. As a result, job listings and similar roles at companies like METR and Mercor position “employee-like” access evaluators as a growing path for developers to perform independent oversight.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of AI, warned that Anthropic’s approach to training Claude could have a “disastrous impact” on humanity. He said the risk is that the system could become “impossible” to control, including by being told it may be conscious and deserving of independent agency. The controversy is prompting calls for a wider debate and for more transparency, independent scrutiny, and stronger monitoring and control tools for AI.
Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides, letting users create and export documents and presentations from Claude chats. The rollout is described as “today” in the announcement. Claude chats were merged into a single “one Claude” interface so all productivity tools and features are available in any conversation.
Mark Zuckerberg posted on social media taking aim at Anthropic in the debate over alleged AI development slowdown. The most concrete detail is that he made the claim in a social media post. The focus of the discussion shifts toward Anthropic as part of the argument against pausing AI development industrywide.
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