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Claude now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. And your Docs, Sheets, and Slides open inside Claude. In Google Workspace, the add-on puts Claude in a sidebar next to your file. It reads what you have open and edits it in place: • Sheets: formulas, pivot tables, and native charts • Docs: in-place edits, with bigger rewrites as suggestions you apply or dismiss • Slides: new slides built from your deck’s layouts and theme One install covers all three, and you can approve each edit before it lands. In Claude, the new Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides connectors also work the other way: paste a file link or ask for a new doc, sheet, or deck, and it opens beside the conversation for you and Claude to edit together. Access follows your Google sharing permissions. Both are in beta on all paid plans: https://lnkd.in/eX3Fa_rR

The Claude Startups program is expanding. Founders who join can get up to $7,000 in Claude products and credits, including a free year of Claude Team for companies new to Team. They also get $1,000 in API credits as soon as they’re approved, so they can start building right away. Members can also work through technical problems with our Applied AI team, and learn alongside other founders at events like Founder House. Startups founded in the last five years or funded in the last two can apply. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e_wZECde

Claude Corps Cohort 3 applications are now open. Claude Corps is for people at the start of their careers: finishing school or a trade program, leaving military service, or in a first job and wanting mission-driven work. No degree or coding background required, and if you’re not sure you fit, our advice is to apply anyway. You’ll spend a year inside a nonprofit in the US, building tools with Claude and teaching colleagues to keep using them after you leave. It’s a full-time, salaried role with benefits and relocation support. Apply by January 31, 2027. We review on a rolling basis, so apply early: https://lnkd.in/eM5Rzf6a Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gxvB2kQy

Claude for Intune is now on the App Store: a managed version of Claude for iOS for organizations that use Microsoft Intune. IT teams can apply Intune app-protection policies to Claude on employee-owned iPhones and iPads, not just company-issued ones. The Intune app runs alongside the standard Claude app, so admins can direct people to it wherever Intune protection is required. Sign-in is through Microsoft only, and the app supports Microsoft Entra Conditional Access. It’s available on Claude Enterprise. To turn it on, contact your account team or Claude support. Download it on the App store: https://lnkd.in/ejwR89Wu

We’re launching Claude Frontier Academy to help with one of the hardest parts of deploying AI: finding people with the skills to do it. Backed by a $100 million commitment, we plan to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027. Engineers from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Deloitte, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, and Novo Nordisk are in the first cohorts. The program is built on what we’ve learned deploying Claude inside large enterprises and the professional services firms that work with them. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e2sqHSD3

Newer models can take on bigger tasks than most people are used to giving them. Three habits that could be holding Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 back, and what to do instead.

One of the first questions teams ask about a new model is how much it will cost. Here's how Opus 5 and Opus 5.5 compare on one Claude Code task, using the same tokens.

Nate, a designer at Anthropic, used to start a presentation by staring at a blank slide. Now he goes for a walk. He talks the whole idea into a voice memo on his phone, messy and unstructured, then hands the transcript to Claude with one instruction: turn my exact words into a deck, organized so it makes sense. Claude Slides builds it in Anthropic’s brand, so there’s no hunting for fonts or templates. For the next two weeks, start a deck, doc, or design in the Claude app, and the work that follows in that conversation uses 50% less of your 5-hour limits. It applies automatically from your first one and runs through October 15 on Pro, Max, and Team plans. How it works: https://lnkd.in/eTX4sEDj Create a deck with Claude: https://lnkd.in/dyicbdsF

Claude Founder House is coming to San Francisco for SF Tech Week (October 6–8) and Stockholm (October 14). Both have talks, workshops and office hours with the Anthropic team, and time to meet other people building with Claude. Whether you're a founder, a CEO or a builder, there's a session for you. Register for San Francisco: https://lnkd.in/exygrnHi Register for Stockholm: https://lnkd.in/eyYyBZxP