Hello AI Enthusiast,
This week, Anthropic and OpenAI made the same move from opposite sides. Anthropic launched Claude Sheets, Whiteboards and Data, and now lets apps like Notion and Canva open inside Claude. OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT, where companies can claim a profile and launch their own agent. Both want you to stay inside their app, one for work and one for shopping. Let's see what that means.
The Big Picture 🔊
Claude Wants Your Work to Stay in Claude
Anthropic launched Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards in beta, and Claude Dashboards is now generally available as Claude Data. Teams can build spreadsheets, brainstorm on shared boards and share live dashboards with Claude, all in one place. Interactive connectors also got an upgrade: tools like Notion, Atlassian and Adobe now open as full apps next to the chat, where Claude can edit with you.
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We use Claude Slides and Docs every day, and they are some of our favorite tools. But these two updates pull in opposite directions. With interactive connectors, you never leave Claude, but your work still lives in Notion or Drive. With Sheets and Whiteboards, Anthropic wants the work itself to stay in Claude. That is a hard sell for companies. Many of our clients already struggle with data spread across too many tools, and nobody wants one more place to store files. So teams have three options: move everything into Claude, move Claude's outputs elsewhere, or let agents search through the mess. |
ChatGPT Opens Its Doors to Businesses
OpenAI launched Businesses in ChatGPT in beta. Through Business Hub, companies can claim their profile, update product details and prices, and see how often ChatGPT mentions them. In the US, eligible e-commerce and online service businesses can also launch a Business Agent that chats with customers, and sponsor it as a ChatGPT ad. Shopify stores can connect directly to speed up verification.
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This week, a potential client told us he found AI Academy because ChatGPT recommended us first. That is why this matters. People already use ChatGPT to find products and services, so OpenAI is giving businesses a way to show up there with the right information. It feels a lot like a Google Business profile, with a similar goal: keep you inside ChatGPT instead of sending you to other websites. Sponsored Business Agents also look like OpenAI's real start in advertising. If the experience feels useful, this could make OpenAI a lot of money. If it feels like ads, people will notice fast. It also shows a clear split. Anthropic keeps building for work, while OpenAI wants to win both businesses and consumers. |
Bits and Bobs 🗞️
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, with faster coding, reasoning and vision, and strong results in finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
With the new Personal Finance feature, Claude can answer questions about your money using the bank accounts you connect.
Anthropic launched the roadshow for its IPO, planning to list on Nasdaq under the symbol "ANT."
Anthropic shared how Claude's memory works, including "dreaming," where Claude reviews and corrects its memories offline between sessions.
OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Cyber, a model that finds and fixes software vulnerabilities while staying within authorized research limits.
Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash now creates video clips of up to 15 seconds with better consistency, at a lower price.
Google Cloud launched Gemini for Healthcare, a platform that connects healthcare data to reduce admin work and support clinical decisions.
Meta released Muse Ember, its smallest and most efficient model, built for reasoning and repetitive agent tasks like coding and document parsing at a lower cost.
Canva is restructuring its teams around AI, a change that affects 22% of its staff.
From Our Founder’s Channels 🤳
Our founder Gianluca Mauro wrote a piece for Harvard Chan School, “Why AI Strategy should be about people first”. His main point: the real barrier to AI adoption is not the technology, it is getting teams to actually change how they work. Read it here
In his Harvard Chan School piece, our founder Gianluca Mauro cites a telling number: only 6% of organizations have made real progress designing how people and AI work together. Closing that gap is exactly what our Corporate AI Training is for.
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