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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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Claude Dispatch is the future. Brace for the quota shock
… 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. …
Prepare to expect less from your cheap AI subscription
… 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 5 is an AI distraction. Apple's Siri is AI people will use
… 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. …
ChatGPT gets you 80% there. The hard part is still yours
… 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. …
The new AI-enhanced Siri is quietly revolutionary. Here’s why
… 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. …
Three questions to ask yourself before you ask AI
… Here’s where ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini can come in handy. …
AI is still waiting for its VisiCalc moment
… 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. …
The $20 AI subscription era has become untenable
… 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. …
Claude did my FreshDirect shopping, with help from 1Password
… To test Claude’s new 1Password abilities, I fired up the Claude Desktop app for now, you must use Claude Desktop for Mac , clicked Customize > Connectors, added the 1Password connector, and authorized it. …