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Anthropic unveiled new Claude features including a beta tool letting Claude join Google Meet calls to take notes and build plans, a collaborative whiteboard workspace, and collaborative spreadsheet editing. The company also made Claude Data generally available, connecting Claude to business systems like CRMs and data warehouses, and introduced connectors for third-party apps such as Adobe, Atlassian and HubSpot.
Anthropic introduced two new collaborative tools, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets, in beta, while Claude Dashboards has been renamed Claude Data and made generally available with added data stories, certified queries, and live sharing. All three are available on paid Claude plans. Whiteboards lets teams brainstorm with Claude in a shared visual board, while Sheets lets Claude build and edit spreadsheets collaboratively with users.
Investors are reportedly weighing bids that would value Anthropic as low as $1.1 trillion, down sharply from the roughly $2 trillion figure floated when the company filed to go public before the midterm elections. The shift follows a broad market selloff that erased $2.3 trillion in value, amid voter backlash against tech companies and data center expansion, and Anthropic's reported $80 billion-plus loss in the first half of 2026.
Scientists including Florida Atlantic University neuroscientist Ian Gaudet are increasingly running large language models locally on their own computers rather than using cloud-based chatbots such as Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT. Tools like Ollama, LM Studio and DEVONthink let researchers download AI models to search and organize their literature and data offline, avoiding the risk that cloud providers could use their inputs for training. Users cite concerns over data protection, reproducibility and cost as reasons for going local, though rising hardware costs and the need to verify AI output remain obstacles.