Anthropic PBC made an announcement last week that flew under the radar. Having sparked selloffs in the equity market with a relentless stream of product updates, the company wanted to avoid rattling investors more. Its livestream wasn’t widely announced; there was no accompanying blog post. But the launch was about as meaningful as anything the artificial intelligence lab has lobbed into the market recently.

The company, which has aggressively pushed into the enterprise business with “agents” that carry out tasks, announced new updates to its tool Claude Cowork that extend its abilities to areas like human resources, investment banking and design. To do this, Anthropic worked with several companies, including FactSet Research Systems Inc., S&P Global Inc. and PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP, to make those capabilities possible through so-called plug-ins.

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