Anthropic

It can create and edit files in Excel and PowerPoint, plus create documents and PDFs, the company announced Tuesday. “Claude creates actual files from your instructions—whether working from
uploaded data, researching information, or building from scratch,” according to the blog post.

The California bill would require leading AI companies to publish safety frameworks with details about how they manage “catastrophic risks,” as well as provide certain whistleblower protections. Anthropic’s support comes after weeks of negotiations with the AI industry on the bill’s specifics. We’ll keep an eye on the upcoming floor vote.

“We view browser-using AI as inevitable: so much work happens in browsers that giving Claude the ability to see what you’re looking at, click buttons, and fill forms will make it substantially more useful,” the company wrote in a blog post. But an AI agent doing such things on your behalf also introduces substantial risks. That’s why Anthropic says it’s just piloting the feature.

Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, two leaders of Anthropic’s coding product, Claude Code, are reportedly back at the company after news broke earlier this month that they had departed for Anysphere, the developer of Cursor.

Kyle Chayka, who wrote for this website about the “airspace” aesthetic created by social media, is now looking into how LLM models affect creativity. He suggests that if Silicon Valley once homogenized decor — and, to some degree, created beige influencers — it may now be making LLM users less original, too.