Can Microsoft's productivity apps survive the age of AI?
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Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic that uses large language models to generate text and support conversational tasks.
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… Get GPT, Claude, and Gemini for a full year for $30. …
… Anyway, I’m working in PCWorld’s Times Square office, away from my home Mac mini, and I notice that the morning Claude news brief that should be sitting in iCloud is missing, probably because the local Claude Cowork on my Mac failed to fire. …
… Now that Fable 5, the powerful Claude model that was slapped with export controls by the U.S. government, is finally back, Claude subscribers are learning that their access to Fable will be even more limited than they first thought. …
… Claude Fable also kicked off other controversies, including stringent data-retention policies that made even Microsoft balk, while Claude subscription users learned that the model would be yanked from their plans later this month. …
… It’s all too easy to ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to just do the thing -- you know, just make the chart, build the website, write the article. …
… Whenever I ask Claude Code, Codex, or Google’s Antigravity a question, but want to keep it from galloping ahead, I add this to my prompt: “Stay in pencil and paper mode.” It’s a handy way to keep Claude, Codex, and Antigravity in check, and it works for other applications besides coding, too. …
… Here’s where ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini can come in handy. …
… With Claude for Small Business and Claude Cowork, Anthropic is nibbling around the edges of what VisiCalc accomplished: finding a truly useful and unique application for AI that offers tangible value to small business owners–and, by extension, to everyday users everywhere. …
… For $200, $100, or even just $20 a month, AI users–myself included–have been taking a joy ride with OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and Claude Design, not to mention Google’s Antigravity, Nano Banana 2, and NotebookLLM. …