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Ep 701: Claude Apps: How Anthropic’s New Interactive Apps Can Up Your AI Productivity

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Claude just added interactive work apps that can build, edit, and manage files directly inside the chat. We break down what’s actually useful and why this could change how teams use AI day to day. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Gemini 3 gets a new agentic roadmap, Claude rolls out plugins and sketch uploads, Google tests voice cloning inside AI Studio, and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI launches Prism, Google rolls out an AI Plus subscription, Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs, and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.

💪 Leverage AI: Are Claude’s new Interactive Apps going to change your workflow? We go hands on. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: Anthropic CEO Issues Urgent Warning on Near-Term AI Risks, Pinterest Lays Off 15% as It Shifts Resources to AI Teams, Claude Adds Interactive Work Apps and More Check it here!

Ep 701: Claude Apps: How Anthropic’s New Interactive Apps Can Up Your AI Productivity

Lil AI productivity secret: we've become the duct tape for AI. 🦾

What's that mean?

Since the ChatGPT wave, we've seen the most AI-native business leaders actually become the defacto human scaffolding for what AI systems need.

↳ Endless copying-pasting-reformatting. ↳ Nonstop context switching. ↳ Frankenstacking random AI apps together.

The recent wave changing this?

Apps inside of LLMs.

Anthropic joined OpenAI as the next big AI player to offer interactive apps inside of their Claude platform.

So how's it work?

Also on the pod today:

• Frankenstacking your AI workflows 🛠️
• Claude interactive apps explained 👾
• Clay enrichment inside Claude apps 🏢


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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight – Imagine Turns your ideas into functional products by chatting with the most complete AI builder ever made, Polyglotta is a multilingual translator and language learner partner, Invofox Is The Document Parsing API for developers

Airtable Standalone Model — Airtable bets its future on Superagent — AI agents to outgrow the core product

AI Sports Analysis — Pro-level match analysis from video — Gemini 3 Pro spots game-changing moments.

Google AI Search Expanded — Ask follow-ups from Search summaries — Gemini 3 powers conversational results.

Gemini 3 Agnetic Vision — Gemini's Agentic Vision runs Python on images to inspect and annotate them, boosting accuracy ~5–10%.

AI Astronomy — AI scanned 100 million Hubble cutouts and found 1,400 anomalies in under three days. Over 800 are new discoveries, including weird galaxies and unclassifiable objects.

Anthropic Claude Updates — Claude’s getting a Plugins hub and Sketch attachments, plus revamped knowledge-base handling. Big features look ready to roll out soon.

Google Tests Voice Cloning — Hidden “Create Your Voice” hints that Google may add native voice cloning to AI Studio, tied to a next-gen Gemini audio model. — curious what’s next?

1. OpenAI launches Prism, an AI-native workspace for researchers 🧑‍🔬

OpenAI today unveiled Prism, a free, cloud-based LaTeX-native workspace that embeds GPT‑5.2 directly into scientific writing and collaboration, signaling a near-term push to streamline how research is done.

The tool unifies drafting, revision, equations, citations, literature search, and real-time coauthoring in one place, removing the friction of juggling editors, PDFs, and separate chat tools. Prism is available now to anyone with a ChatGPT personal account, with broader organizational rollouts for paid plans coming soon.

2. Google launches cheaper AI Plus subscription in US 🚀

Google this week rolled out its new AI Plus plan in the US, a lower-cost option at $8 per month with a limited-time $4 introductory rate for the first two months, giving users access to Gemini 3 Pro and image generator Nano Banana Pro, plus 200GB of storage.

The timing matters because Google is expanding AI Plus to 34 more countries and folding these features into existing Google One Premium 2TB subscriptions, making advanced AI tools more widely affordable. The plan sits between the $20 AI Pro tier with 2TB and code tools and the $250 AI Ultra tier that offers 30TB and the full suite of Google’s AI services, reflecting Google’s tiered strategy to capture different user needs

3. Kimi K2.5 clinches top open-model spot in LMArena rankings 📈

Kimi K2.5 jumped into the headlines by becoming the #1 open-source model on LMArena’s Text Arena, overtaking GLM-4.7 and placing #15 overall, marking a rare open-model presence in the top tier.

The release highlights strong performance across vision, coding, and agentic benchmarks, and the Kimi team touts global state-of-the-art results on several agentic and vision tests. This shift matters because it signals growing parity between open models and leading closed systems, intensifying competition in research and deployment choices.

4. Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs while doubling down on AI and grocery expansion 🛒

Amazon on Wednesday announced about 16,000 role cuts as part of a company-wide restructure intended to reduce layers and speed decision-making, while promising continued hiring in strategic areas like artificial intelligence and expanded grocery services.

U.S.-based affected employees will generally have 90 days to find new internal roles or receive severance and support, with leadership stressing this is not the start of recurring mass layoffs.

5. Mozilla’s ‘rebel alliance’ doubles down on trustworthy AI 🤖

Mozilla president Mark Surman announced a renewed push to fund and coordinate a coalition of startups, developers and nonprofits aimed at keeping AI open and accountable, deploying roughly $1.4 billion in reserves and an expanding venture program.

The move is timely as massive AI players like OpenAI and Anthropic sprint ahead with enormous capital and market influence, raising concerns about concentrated power and safety shortcuts. Mozilla will invest in mission-driven, open-source tools and startups to build an alternative ecosystem, acknowledging it faces a steep financial uphill but betting on long-term viability.

For the past two years, business leaders using AI correctly have been doing something we call Frankenstacking. You know exactly what this looks like. Copy from Gmail. Paste into a research tool. Export that data. Import to a presentation app. Repeat endlessly.

Claude's new interactive apps don't just connect to your work tools. They pass context between them automatically while you watch it happen in real time.

1. The End Of Human Scaffolding 🚀

For years, AI actually created more work in certain ways. Not less.

Think about it. Before large language models, you never had to manually transfer AI outputs between six different tools. That entire category of labor exists only because the technology was powerful enough to be useful but too siloed to share context.

Claude's nine new interactive apps eliminate that middle layer entirely. Amplitude for analytics. Asana for projects. Box for files. Canva and Figma for design. Clay for business intelligence. Hex for data. Monday.com for workflows. Slack for communication.

The system reads from one app, reasons about what you need, and writes to the next without asking you to be the glue.

Try This: Map your most time-consuming weekly workflow right now and count every moment you manually move information between tools. If that number exceeds three touchpoints per task, you've identified exactly where this shift eliminates hours of invisible labor. Those hours compound into weeks annually, and the companies who reclaim them first will redeploy that time toward work that actually requires human judgment instead of human scaffolding.

2. Operating System Beats Operating Procedure 🔥

This changes what Claude actually is in your workflow architecture.

A chatbot sits in a browser tab and waits for you to ask questions. An operating system sits underneath everything else and coordinates how applications talk to each other. Claude just became the second thing.

The graphical interfaces from connected apps appear directly inside Claude's conversation window. You can view, edit, and execute actions across Slack, Figma, and Asana without switching tabs. Two-way data flows happen automatically.

ChatGPT launched similar capabilities back in October with around 40 apps now. Their version runs more consistently. Claude's version produces stronger outputs when it works correctly but has more bugs. Both point toward the same future where your AI doesn't just answer questions. It runs your operational infrastructure.

Try This: If your team heavily uses any combination of Slack, Canva, Figma, Asana, or Monday.com, enable these connectors today and run one real workflow through Claude before your competitors discover this exists. The learning curve happens now while stakes are low or later when you're already behind. Go to claude.ai/directory, find apps marked interactive under capabilities, and authorize both read and write access to start building the muscle memory that compounds.

3. First-Mover Advantage Actually Compounds Here ⚡

TBH, this new Claude tech technology is buggy and limited right now.

We ran identical prompts multiple times and got wildly inconsistent results. Sometimes the interface rendered perfectly. Sometimes it ignored specified apps entirely.

None of that changes the strategic calculus.

Every major AI company is racing toward this exact architecture. OpenAI built their apps SDK on the same Model Context Protocol that Anthropic created. Google is rolling out similar orchestration in Gemini. The standard is emerging while adoption remains low.

Companies that build operational muscle memory with AI orchestration today will dominate when the bugs get fixed. The gap between organizations treating Claude as an occasional assistant versus those treating it as their operating layer grows exponentially each quarter.

Try This: Identify three workflows where you currently coordinate AI outputs manually between different services. Document which tools touch that data and in what sequence. When you can articulate exactly where human glue holds processes together, you can systematically replace that glue with context that flows automatically between apps. That clarity becomes your competitive advantage when this technology matures and everyone else starts from scratch.

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