Anthropic equips Claude with workplace productivity tools

Anthropic has introduced new features to Claude, allowing it to create, edit, and convert Excel sheets, Word files, PowerPoint slides, and PDFs directly inside chat.

This update marks a major step in the AI productivity race, as tasks that once required manual formatting or complex formulas in Excel can now be done with simple natural language prompts.
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UAE’s MBZUAI unveils K2 Think, a small yet powerful AI reasoning model.

Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI (MBZUAI) in the UAE has introduced K2 Think, a new cost-efficient reasoning model developed with Emirati tech company G42.

This development highlights how smaller, optimized AI systems can rival massive models. Instead of building another chatbot, MBZUAI and G42 designed K2 Think for deep reasoning tasks in science and mathematics.
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