Anthropic is launching two major features today: Research and Google Workspace integration. The company announced today that Claude can now connect directly to your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Documents, turning the AI assistant into what Anthropic calls “your frontline workplace assistant. ” Instead of manually digging through countless emails, calendar invites, and documents to find information, Claude now does that work for you — it can “pull together meeting notes from last week, identify action items from follow-upemail threads, and search relevant documents for additional context” — putting Claude in more direct competition with Microsoft’s Copilot and similar workplace AI assistants. There’s also Claude’s new Research feature, which Anthropic describes as transforming “how Claude finds and reasons over information.” This comes a few months after both OpenAI and Google launched similar tools, both called Deep Research. (I also flagged that this was possibly coming after the company launched a new $200 tier!) Unlike traditional AI search capabilities that execute a single query, Claude now operates “agentically” — a user queries the chatbot, and it conducts “ hellip; Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less