📊 Anthropic adds Sheets, Whiteboards and Data to Claude 📊
Claude Data reaches general access as Sheets and Whiteboards enter beta.

Anthropic is turning Claude into a full workspace: Claude Sheets and Whiteboards launch in beta, while Claude Data, previously called Dashboards, is now generally available on paid plans. The company also upgraded its interactive connectors and confirmed that Claude Meetings is coming soon. Anthropic adds Sheets, Whiteboards and Data to Claude to keep work inside one assistant, adding competitive pressure on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. For teams already paying for Claude, spreadsheets, visual brainstorming and data views can now sit next to the chat they use to write and analyze.

💼 OpenAI brings business agents to ChatGPT 💼
Verified brand profiles and paid ad integration arrive inside ChatGPT.

OpenAI launched a beta Businesses hub that lets companies claim verified profiles in ChatGPT, track how their brand is mentioned and launch their own business agents. The commercial twist: brands can pay to make these agents the landing spot for ChatGPT ads, so a user who clicks an ad ends up in a branded conversation instead of on a website. OpenAI brings business agents to ChatGPT as its ad business grows, turning the chatbot into a distribution channel brands can't ignore. For marketing teams, monitoring ChatGPT mentions may soon matter as much as search rankings.

⚡ Gemini 4 Carbon goes GA at $2 ⚡
Gemini 4 Carbon pricing set at $2/$10 as rollout begins.

Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, available to paying developers via the API, following its earlier limited-access debut. The model is also rolling out to AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app, Antigravity and AI Mode. Pricing is set at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, raising pricing pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic. Now that Gemini 4 Carbon goes GA at $2, teams that tested it in preview can move it into production apps and compare costs against their current frontier model.

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🎙️ Microsoft cuts transcription to $0.10/hour 🎙️

Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2 with pricing at just $0.10 per hour of audio, including speaker diarization and word-level timestamps. Microsoft calls it the fastest, most accurate and cheapest speech recognition model of its kind. Microsoft cuts transcription to $0.10/hour, a price that pressures established transcription APIs and makes meeting, podcast and call-center transcription cheaper at scale.

🔮 AI 2027 authors pull forecasts into 2027 🔮

Citing the speed of recent progress, the AI Futures Project, the team behind the AI 2027 scenario, now expects a superhuman AI researcher sometime in 2027. The update leans on METR's assessment that Anthropic's AI progress is running about twice its historical pace. AI 2027 authors pull forecasts into 2027, a signal that regulation timelines may be shorter than expected.