Anthropic introduces Claude meetings, whiteboards, and sheets to enhance workplace productivity

Anthropic has rolled out several new productivity tools, including Claude Meetings, which integrates Claude into video calls to assist with tasks in real time. This feature allows teams to add Claude as a visible participant, enabling it to draft plans, map timelines on a whiteboard, answer chat questions, and retrieve data from connected work applications, such as figures from the previous year. Claude Meetings is currently in beta on Team and Enterprise plans and supports Google Meet initially. Alongside this, the company launched Claude Whiteboards, a collaborative space where teams can develop plans with Claude's help, which can then be converted into documents or slide decks. Whiteboards are also functional within Claude Meetings. Furthermore, Claude Sheets allows teams to collaboratively create and edit spreadsheets, with Claude generating functional trackers or budgets that teams can refine directly within the cells. In other updates, Anthropic made Claude Data, formerly Claude Dashboards, generally available, connecting Claude to corporate data systems like CRMs. The company also introduced interactive connectors, allowing users to open and work within external applications such as Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot directly alongside Claude conversations.