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Skills for Claude will let you customize tasks with pre-set instructions - here's how
Available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, the new capabilities shape Claude's output when carrying out routine or specialized tasks....
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- Users can create and upload their own custom skills for Claude to follow.
- Skills are essentially digital instruction manuals that make Claude more customizable and specialized.
- The launch of Skills marks a step towards making Claude more agentic, able to carry out complex tasks with minimal user oversight.
Anthropic turns to ‘skills’ to make Claude more useful at work
AI agents spent years as a concept and then as an experiment. Now, AI companies are devoting even more time and resources than before to make their ag...
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- Skills for Claude provides instructions, scripts, and resources to improve Claude's abilities for specific tasks.
- This feature is designed to reduce the time spent writing prompts and referring to past context.
- Box, Rakuten, Canva, and other companies have already used the tool, with Anthropic making it available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
Anthropic launches new version of scaled-down ‘Haiku’ model
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, the newest version of its smallest model, billed as offering similar performance to Sonnet 4 "at one-third th...
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- Haiku 4.5 reaches 73% accuracy on SWE-Bench and 41% on Terminal-Bench, matching Sonnet 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5.
- The model's lightweight nature makes it suitable for deploying multiple agents in parallel and integrating with more complex models.
- Haiku 4.5 is expected to be particularly appealing for free versions of AI products and will support new styles of deployment in production environments.
Claude now integrates directly with Microsoft 365
Here's what the new connector lets Anthropic's chatbot do, how it can benefit you, and who gets to access it....
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- Claude can access SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, and Teams to pull information directly from those apps.
- The new 'enterprise search' feature allows businesses to integrate all critical apps for centralized resource retrieval.
- Admins must curate digital tools for the team-wide accounts, and the new features are available to Claude Team and Enterprise subscribers.
Ready or not, enterprises are betting on AI
This has been a big week for AI companies signing enterprise deals, with Zendesk unveiling new AI agents that are supposed to be able to resolve 80% o...
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- AI companies are prioritizing enterprise deals over consumer-facing applications, which offer a more immediate path to significant revenue.
- The Australian government has set a precedent by pushing back against the use of AI-generated reports, emphasizing the need for accountability and accuracy.
- Zendesk introduces AI-powered customer service tools that could potentially remove humans from the process, but the adoption rate among businesses remains uncertain.
Anthropic Launches Faster, Lower-cost Claude Haiku 4.5 Model
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5, a faster, lower-cost AI model offering near-Sonnet performance and improved safety for real-time applications.Rea...
Claude's latest model is cheaper and faster than Sonnet 4 - and free
Here's what Haiku 4.5 offers users and developers....
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- Haiku 4.5 is faster and more cost-effective than Sonnet 4, costing one-third of the price and delivering twice the speed.
- Haiku 4.5 demonstrates competitive performance with Sonnet 4 and other large language models in various benchmarks, including coding, visual reasoning, and high school-level math.
- Haiku 4.5 has shown low rates of concerning behaviors and achieved an AI Safety Level 2 standard, making it Anthropic's safest model yet.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5, a smaller, cheaper AI model - CNBC
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5, a smaller, cheaper AI model CNBC...
It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish, says Anthropic
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- Only 250 malicious documents, amounting to 0.00016% of the model's total training data, are needed to compromise a model with 13 billion parameters.
- Cleansing and safeguarding the training input becomes a critical step, requiring constant scrutiny and attention.
- Current LLM-based AI's lack self-guided self-correction processes and rely on human testing and curation, implying the need for significant investment and expertise.
Why Deloitte is betting big on AI despite a $10M refund
AI companies are making their much-anticipated enterprise plays, but the results are wildly inconsistent. Just this week, Deloitte announced it’s roll...
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Former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to advise Microsoft and Anthropic
Former Conservative PM Rishi Sunak served from 2022 to 2024. Britain's Acoba flagged concerns of granting "unfair access" to Anthropic and Microsoft....
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- Rishi Sunak's appointment raises concerns about his privileged information potentially being used to grant Microsoft an unfair advantage.
- Sunak's new roles, combined with his history of investments in Microsoft, have sparked debate about regulating AI and potential lobbying.
- The appointments follow a trend of active revolving doors between Silicon Valley tech giants and governments in the UK and US.
US tech startup Anthropic unveils cheaper model to widen AI's appeal - Reuters
US tech startup Anthropic unveils cheaper model to widen AI's appeal Reuters...
Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 4.5: Small AI Model that Delivers Sonnet-4-Level Coding Performance at One-Third the Cost and more than Twice the Speed
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a latency-optimized “small” model that delivers similar levels of coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4 while run...
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Anthropic just dropped Claude Imagine and it might be the biggest leap yet for Gen UI
I have to compliment anthropic: a good move to cut costs within months
Kinda funny how Anthropic characterizes Opus as a “legacy.” They really don’t want you to use it.
Anthropic needs to be transparent like OpenAI - Sam Altman explained guardrails and upcoming changes including age-gate
Did just Anthropic do something stupid? All MCP servers stopped working in Claude Desktop because of settings folder name change.