Anthropic’s Cloud Cowork is adding AI to more boring enterprise stuff

Anthropic announced on Tuesday Updates to its cloud cowork platform Which allows AI to help with a wide range of office tasks. Cloud Cowork can now connect to many popular office apps, including Google Workspace, Docusign, and WordPress. New pre-built plug-ins can automate tasks in many areas, including human resources, design, engineering, and finance. Additionally, according to Anthropic, “the cloud can now also handle multi-step tasks from start to finish on Excel and PowerPoint,” passing context between the two apps.

New cloud cowork tools will be available to all cowork users starting Tuesday Currently a research preview feature Limited to users with paid Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscriptions.