Claude writes and exports real documents, and 15% of company codes of conduct mention AI

The report and the deck now come out of the chat window. Anthropic added two tools to Claude on September 16: Claude Docs, which writes and edits a document inside a conversation, and Claude Slides, which builds a presentation from the same conversation. A document exports to Microsoft Word or Google Docs, and slides download as PowerPoint or PDF, Anthropic told VentureBeat.

Anthropic's own example of the merged app is a weekly sales report. Claude reviews how the pipeline moved, writes the report in the format the company uses, flags the deals that slipped, and turns the highlights into five slides. It asks a clarifying question when it needs one, keeps working while the person who asked is away, and returns the document and the presentation together, so the figures in both agree. That whole job can then be scheduled to run again the following Monday.

Work of that size used to need Cowork, the separate mode Anthropic opened as a research preview on January 12; Claude now reads the request and picks the tools itself.

Claude can pause for approval at each step, or carry on and interrupt only when something needs a closer look, depending on how the person sets it. Both tools are in beta, reaching Pro and Max subscribers on web, desktop and mobile over the coming weeks, with Team and free plans to follow. On Enterprise plans, the administrator decides when they arrive.

LRN, a compliance software and advisory firm, read 194 large companies' codes of conduct this year. Fifteen percent of them mention AI.

The tools those codes do not cover keep arriving on personal phones, free. Snap released Specs Intelligence this week for iPhone and Mac, an assistant that reads a person's email, calendar and chat apps and arranges the day from what it finds there. It is free to try in early access, and the same assistant will run inside Specs, the augmented reality glasses Snap is taking pre-orders for at $2,195.

An assistant that reads a work mailbox reads everything in that mailbox: the client list, the salary conversation, the supplier contract with its pricing. Whether an employee may point a free personal app at that material is the question most codes do not answer, which leaves each manager answering it for one team at a time.

Bribery and corruption appear in more than 96% of the same 194 codes. AI content has tripled since 2023, when it was in 5% of them.

Klarna replaced 700 customer service agents with AI in 2024. By early 2026 it was hiring people again.

Gartner counts fewer than 1% of 2025's job losses as caused by AI productivity gains. Most of last year's announcements, then, described something older than AI: ordinary cost cutting with a modern reason attached to it.

AI takes tasks rather than roles. It handles the requests that repeat with a settled answer, the address change and the refund that fits the policy, and it leaves the exceptions, where the customer is angry or the file contradicts itself. A team cut to fit the first kind of work still owes somebody the second.

Gartner gives two reasons the rehiring costs more. The people who leave are the ones who knew the exceptions, and global labour force growth is flat or declining, so hiring and training a replacement costs more than the salary saved.

Gartner forecasts that by 2029, 30% of the employees laid off because AI replaced their role will have to be hired back, often at a significantly higher cost.

Meta has put prices on parts of its apps. Meta One went live on September 15 with more than 50 paid features across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Single-app plans start at $2.99 a month for WhatsApp Plus, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus at $3.99 each. Creator and business plans run from $14.99 a month for Essential up to $499 for Max, which buys heavy use of Meta's AI tools. Meta says the main apps and everyday Meta AI stay free.

A shop that sells through Instagram and answers customers in WhatsApp now has a monthly line item where it had a free account. What the $499 tier adds, beyond the AI limits, is access to a real person at Meta.

Firefox's AI assistant keeps no record of what is said to it. Mozilla says conversations are not kept on its servers by default, and Mistral, whose models now power the feature, has agreed to retain nothing either. Smart Window, still in beta, handles complicated searches, brings back a page someone clicked away from, and works from the tabs open in the browser; the model behind it is Mistral Small 4. It answers in French in France after August's start in the United States and Canada, with the United Kingdom and Germany expected later this year.

Digit 5 stops moving, or lowers itself to the floor, when a person comes too close. Agility Robotics' previous model had to work inside a fenced area; this one adds sensors and an independent motion supervisor, a separate control system that can halt the machine, which is what lets it share a floor with people. Agility calls the result "cooperatively safe", a term it coined for the problem.

The robot carries about 23 kilograms, up from about 16. Digit has logged more than 65,000 hours at nine customer sites, including GXO Logistics and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada.

Agility's product sales are still small next to what it spends, and it is going public through a $2.5 billion merger. It holds more than $300 million in multi-year Digit orders, and the first Digit 5 machines go to customers in December.