If you're worried your local bodega or convivence store may soon be replaced by an AI storefront, you can rest easy — at least for the time being. Anthropic recently concluded an experiment, dubbed Project Vend, that saw the company task an offshoot of its Claude chatbot with running a refreshments business out of its San Francisco office at a profit, and things went about as well as you would expect. The agent, named Claudius to differentiate it from Anthropic's regular chatbot, not only made some rookie mistakes like selling high-margin items at a loss, but it also acted like a complete weirdo in a couple of instances.<br /> "If Anthropic were deciding today to expand into the in-office vending market, we would not hire Claudius," the company said. "… i [...]
Anthropic on Monday launched the most ambitious consumer AI agent to date, giving its Claude chatbot the ability to directly control a user's Mac — clicking buttons, opening applications, typin [...]
Anthropic on Monday launched a beta integration that connects its fast-growing Claude Code programming agent directly to Slack, allowing software engineers to delegate coding tasks without leaving the [...]
When Anthropic quietly released Claude Design in April as a "research preview," it generated the kind of instant traction most product teams dream about: more than one million users in its f [...]
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Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team b [...]
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Tag, a new product that embeds its most advanced AI model directly inside Slack as a persistent, shared teammate that anyone on a team can delegate work to by simp [...]
Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, expanding a tool that has quietly become the company's bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the far la [...]