Anthropic just made Claude a lot more useful for a bunch of users.
The company's flagship AI chatbot just got upgraded to be compatible with several major apps, meaning it can now handle things like ordering food, hiring people for odd-jobs, and other random tasks that you might otherwise have to manually open an app to perform. Combine these new integrations with Claude's increasingly agentic capabilities, and you can offload a lot of work to Anthropic's chatbot.
Claude already had an extensive list of possible app connections, but there are some real heavy-hitters in the list of new additions:
AllTrails
Audible
Booking.com
Instacart
Intuit Credit Karma
Intuit TurboTax
Resy
Spotify
StubHub
TaskRabbit
Thumbtack
TripAdvisor
Uber
UberEats
Viator
Anthropic's press release also noted that more are on the way. With these new connections, you can book a trip, order food, arrange a ride-share, or hire someone to mount your TV, all from one chatbot window. On top of these apps becoming compatible with Claude, Anthropic has also adjusted the chatbot so it will automatically suggest certain apps for certain actions, based on the context of your conversation with it.
Anthropic also clarified that there won't be sponsored answers or suggestions in the chat, maintaining that Claude is and will be ad-free going forward. Connected apps are also not used to train Claude, and they can't see other conversations you've had with the chatbot.
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