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Anthropic adds Claude Sheets, meeting notes and whiteboards
Engadget: Anthropic unveiled Claude Sheets, Meetings (Google Meet, Team/Enterprise) and Whiteboards at a San Francisco event. Techmeme, citing Bloomberg, frames the tools as competing with Microsoft.
Anthropic on Tuesday announced Claude Sheets and other workplace tools at an event in San Francisco, expanding Claude into spreadsheets, meeting notes and shared whiteboards, Engadget reported1.
Engadget said Claude Sheets can generate and edit spreadsheets with tabs and formulas, is billed as collaborative, can export to Excel, and supports Anthropic's Google Workspace plugin. It is in beta for Claude subscribers on web, desktop and mobile1. Techmeme, summarizing a Bloomberg report by Shirin Ghaffary, listed the spreadsheet service with a video-call assistant and a data dashboard and framed the package as a bid to compete with Microsoft2.
Claude Meetings, Engadget said, can join Google Meet, take notes and later answer questions about plans and action items1. Anthropic said Claude marks itself as a participant and posts a notice in the meeting chat1. Engadget quoted the company as saying it will not join a call with outside guests unless an admin allows it, and that it leaves if one joins anyway1. The meeting tool is available only to Team and Enterprise customers for now; Engadget noted Google Meet already offers a meeting agent through Gemini1.
Claude Whiteboards groups collaborators' ideas by theme and drafts action items; Engadget said it can run at the same time as Meetings1. Anthropic said many people already brainstorm with Claude but have had to copy results elsewhere to share them1. Whiteboards is in beta for all paid users on web, desktop and mobile1.
Separately, Anthropic is renaming Claude Dashboards to Claude Data and beginning a rollout to all paid users, saying companies use their data for more than dashboards, Engadget reported1. Users can connect Claude Data to a company CRM so the chatbot can answer questions about that data1.
Anthropic is also letting some partners open full apps inside Claude so the chatbot can act on what it sees, starting with Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot, on top of more than 9,000 Marketplace connectors, Engadget said1. This filing could not independently read the Bloomberg article Techmeme cited2.
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Anthropic takes on Google and Microsoft with Claude Sheets
Product details for Sheets, Meetings in Google Meet, Whiteboards beta, Claude Data, and Marketplace apps.
Anthropic announced Claude Sheets plus Meetings, Whiteboards, a Dashboards-to-Data rename, and in-app plugins at an event in San Francisco.
Leaves out Bloomberg's competitive framing beyond the headline comparison to Google and Microsoft.
Anthropic unveils office tools, including a video call assistant, a data dashboard, and spreadsheet service Claude Sheets, in a bid to compete with Microsoft (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Competition with Microsoft and a package of video-call, dashboard and spreadsheet tools.
Aggregator headline summarizing Shirin Ghaffary's Bloomberg report on Anthropic office tools competing with Microsoft.
Leaves out The product-by-product availability details Engadget reported from the San Francisco event.