Anthropic is pushing Claude further beyond text-based answers. The AI chatbot can now generate and edit files, including Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slide decks and PDFs, directly inside Claude.ai and its desktop app. This update will allow Claude to deliver finished, professional files instead of just copy-pasted text.

The feature is currently in preview for Claude Max, Team and Enterprise customers. Pro users will get access in the coming weeks.

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What this update brings to Claude 

Users can now drop in raw data and get back a spreadsheet with formulas, charts and a written summary. Meeting notes can become a polished report or slide presentation. Claude can transform data into slides or a stack of invoices into a spreadsheet. Claude can reportedly build complex assets like financial models or project trackers from scratch, too.

The new functionality is powered by a secure computing environment that lets Claude write code and run programs in the background to assemble files. Anthropic positions the update as a way to shorten the distance between ideas and deliverables. Instead of spending hours cleaning data or formatting documents, customers would use Claude to handle the execution while they focus on strategy and decision-making.

Don’t use sensitive data

There’s an important caveat. Claude connects to the internet while creating and analyzing files, so companies and employees should be cautious about feeding the AI platform sensitive data.

How to get started with Claude’s new file creation feature

• Turn on «Upgraded file creation and analysis» in Settings > Features > Experimental.
• Upload the files you want Claude to work with or describe your request in the chat.
• Collaborate with Claude by giving instructions and refining the output step-by-step.

You can download the results from there or push them straight into Google Drive.

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The venerable video game company Atari is offering preorders for a new game console it previewed earlier this year: The Gamestation Go will release in October for $180 (plus $8 shipping).

On its website, Atari shows off a colorful portable device with a 7-inch screen and multiple ways to control games including trackpads, a trackball and even a numeric keypad. Atari says the console will come bundled with 200 built-in games including Pac-Man, Centipede, Asteroids and Balls of Steel. It includes Wi-Fi connectivity, USB-C ports and a battery life of about 4 to 5 hours, according to the site.

The site also touts «SmartGlow» technology that lights up the section of controller to be used, depending on the game.

This isn’t the first time Atari has packaged up its retro library of games in a way to make them accessible to new audiences. In the last few years, Atari has released throwback versions of its Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 consoles. But the Gamestation is the first Atari mobile console with those games bundled in. 

The console has an HDMI port that allows it to be connected to larger screens too.