Anthropic just gave Claude a superpower: real-time web search. Here’s why it changes everything

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic announced today that its AI assistant Claude can now search and process information from the internet in real time, addressing one of users’ most requested features and closing a critical competitive gap with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new web search capability, available immediately for paid Claude users in the United States, transforms the AI assistant from a tool limited by its training data cutoff to one that can access and synthesize the latest information across the web. “With web search, Claude has access to the latest events and information, boosting its accuracy on tasks that benefit from the most recent data,” Anthropic said in its announcement. The company emphasized that Claude will provide direct citations to sources, allowing users to fact-check information— a direct response to growing concerns about AI hallucinations and misinformation. ... Read full article.