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Anthropic's Claude chatbot just got a suite of finance updates.
Claude can draft financial reports, access new data, and more.
AI is playing an increasingly central role in the financial sector.
Anthropic is ramping up its efforts to court new customers in the finance sector with a suite of upgrades for Claude, including an integration with Microsoft Excel, seven new market data connectors, and six new Agent Skills.
The upgrades arrive at a time when Anthropic is leaning more heavily into its partnership with Microsoft, and when the finance sector is being reshaped by the ongoing rise of generative AI tools. Here's what's new, and what each upgrade can do.
Excel integration
Anthropic announced Monday that Claude can now be integrated directly with Microsoft Excel, allowing users to interact with it via a sidebar that appears on an open spreadsheet (like Clippy -- RIP -- just a little smarter). For example, users can prompt the chatbot to answer questions about spreadsheet data, modify them while preserving the overall structure, or create entirely new spreadsheets.
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