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Aug 8, 2026

Claude in Excel and PowerPoint Now Works Through an LLM Gateway: What Changed and How to Set It Up

Anthropic published support documentation on March 11, 2026 confirming that Claude's add-ins for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint can now connect through an LLM gateway. An LLM gateway is a routing layer that many companies place between employees and AI services so that IT and security teams can control access, monitor usage, and manage costs in one place. Before this change, organizations that required all AI traffic to pass through a gateway could not easily roll out Claude inside Excel and PowerPoint. Now they can: an administrator points the add-ins at the company's gateway address instead of connecting directly to Anthropic. For everyday users, nothing about the Claude experience inside Excel or PowerPoint changes — the difference is that your company's IT team can now approve and deploy it under their existing controls.

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Chrome & Mobile

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Aug 11, 2026

Claude Mobile Can Now Read Your Health and Fitness Data — Here's Who Gets It and What It Does

As of January 12, 2026, the Claude mobile app on iOS and Android can read and analyze your health and fitness data, according to Anthropic's release notes. You can ask Claude about your activity patterns, workout trends, and sleep quality, and it will respond with insights and visualizations using native charts. This matters to you only if you meet three conditions: you're on a Pro or Max plan, you're located in the US, and you're using the mobile app rather than the web or desktop versions. Android users have two extra requirements: Health Connect and Android 14 or later. If you're on a free plan, outside the US, or on an older Android device, this feature isn't available to you yet. If you qualify, the practical use is simple: ask Claude questions about your health data in plain language instead of digging through fitness app dashboards yourself.

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Aug 11, 2026

Claude's Mobile Apps Can Now Connect to Your Calendar, Maps, and Reminders — Here's What That Actually Means

If you use Claude's iOS or Android app, Claude can now connect to apps on your phone to draft calendar events and help you find locations. Reminder management is iOS-only. Anthropic hasn't published detailed setup steps in the release note itself, so check the Claude mobile app for the new connection options before planning workflows around it.

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Aug 11, 2026

Claude in Chrome: Anthropic's Experimental Extension Lets Claude Act Inside Your Browser

Anthropic released an experimental Chrome browser extension that lets Claude read, click, and navigate websites alongside you. If your work happens in a browser, this changes Claude from a chat window you copy things into to an assistant that can act on live pages. It is labeled experimental, so treat it as an early feature rather than a finished product.

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Claude.ai & Cowork

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Aug 10, 2026

Claude Now Documents Importing and Exporting Your Memory — What That Actually Means

Anthropic has published guidance on importing and exporting your memory from Claude, meaning the information Claude remembers about you is no longer locked inside the product — you can take a copy out or bring memory in. If you use Claude's memory feature, check Anthropic's support article for the exact steps; the release note itself doesn't include them.

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Aug 10, 2026

Claude Team Plans Can Now Switch From Monthly to Annual Billing — What Admins Need to Know

If your organization is on a Claude Team plan with monthly billing, you can now switch that same plan to annual billing without waiting or contacting sales through a new process. This only applies to Team plan organizations currently billed monthly. If you're on a different plan, or already on annual billing, nothing changes for you. Anthropic published a support guide walking through the switch.

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Aug 10, 2026

Claude Sonnet 4 Gets a 1M Token Context Window (Beta): What Changed and How to Use It

On August 12, 2025, Anthropic announced that Claude Sonnet 4 now supports a 1 million token context window, currently in beta. The context window is the amount of text Claude can consider at once, and 1 million tokens is roughly 750,000 words, or several long books. This is a large jump from the standard 200,000 token window. For now, access is limited to API organizations in usage tier 4 or those with custom rate limits, meaning it is aimed at teams building on Claude's API rather than everyday users of the Claude.ai app. If your company works with Claude through the API, this means you can now feed in much larger document sets, contracts, transcripts, or knowledge bases in a single request instead of splitting them up.

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Enterprise & Admin

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Aug 13, 2026

Claude Project Sharing for Team and Enterprise Plans: What Changed and What It Means for Your Organization

As of August 1, 2025, Anthropic enabled project permissions and sharing on Claude's Team and Enterprise plans. If your organization is on one of those plans, projects can now be shared across the organization with permission controls instead of staying siloed with the person who created them. If you're not on Team or Enterprise, this release doesn't mention your plan. Details are in Anthropic's Organization-wide sharing documentation.

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Aug 12, 2026

How To Search Your Past Conversations In Claude — Here's What That Means for Max, Team, and Enterprise Users

If your organization is on Claude's Max, Team, or Enterprise plan, you can now ask Claude to search your past conversations instead of re-explaining context in every new chat. To use it, simply prompt Claude to look for a previous conversation on a topic. Free and Pro users are not mentioned in Anthropic's announcement, so this appears limited to those three plans.

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Aug 10, 2026

Claude's HIPAA Configuration Is Now Self-Serve: What Admins Can Do Without Waiting on Anthropic

If your organization handles protected health information and uses Claude Enterprise or the Claude Platform (API), you no longer need to go through Anthropic to get HIPAA readiness set up. As of July 14, 2026, an eligible admin can handle it directly: review the Business Associate Agreement (BAA), download the implementation guide, and enable the HIPAA configuration, all in one flow inside the product. If you don't work with health data, this change doesn't affect you. If you do, the practical step is to have your admin check whether they're eligible to run this flow in your Claude admin settings, and to loop in your compliance or legal team before accepting the BAA, since it's a binding agreement. This applies to both Claude Enterprise and the API platform.

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