Claude Gets New App Integrations and Upgraded Research Tool 🚀

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Anthropic is rolling out new features for Claude, including enhanced research capabilities and support for external integrations with enterprise tools.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Anthropic Updates Claude with New App Integrations and Upgraded Research Tool

• Google Introduces AI Mode in Search

• AI Tutorial: How to make your avatar speak exactly like you

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

• AI Findings/Resources

AI News

ANTHROPIC

Anthropic Updates Claude with New App Integrations and Upgraded Research Tool

Anthropic just launched a new way to connect apps and tools to Claude, along with an expanded "deep research" capability.

Details:

• The new app connection feature, called Integrations, allows users to link Claude to third-party apps through a system called the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• At launch, there are ready-to-use connectors for 10 services: Jira, Confluence, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Asana, Square, Sentry, PayPal, Linear, with more on the way, including support for Stripe and GitLab.

• With the new Advanced Research, Claude can now "conduct deeper investigations" and generate more comprehensive reports using both public and internal sources.

• The upgraded research feature can take advantage of the new integrations to also search any application you connect (it used to be limited to web search and Google Workspace), providing clear citations with direct links to the original sources, which should make it easier to verify the information.

These are strong additions to Anthropic’s efforts to keep pace with competitors like Gemini and ChatGPT. They're available in beta for users on Claude’s Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with support for the Pro plan expected soon.

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GOOGLE

Google Introduces AI Mode in Search

Google is expanding access to AI Mode, its experimental AI assistant in Search that draws from the company's search index to answer complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups. 

Detials:

• Starting in the coming weeks, a small percentage of users in the US will begin seeing an AI Mode tab to the left of “All,” “Images,” and other tabs in Google Search, allowing them to test the feature outside of Google’s experimental Labs environment.

• Google is also removing the waitlist for AI Mode. Anyone in the U.S. aged 18 or older can now access the feature if enrolled in Labs.

• The feature has been updated with new capabilities, including the ability to pick up where you left off in a search and the addition of visual, interactive cards that show detailed, real-time information for businesses or products—such as opening hours, reviews, prices, and shipping details.

AI Mode is Google’s response to LLM-based search engines like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT search features, which, while not a major threat yet, are steadily growing in popularity.

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AI Tutorial

How to make your avatar speak exactly like you

HeyGen’s new feature, Voice Mirroring, lets your AI avatar speak exactly like you by cloning your style and tone. It helps avoid monotonous, robotic, or unintentional voiceovers.

1. Go to the HeyGen website and sign in.

2. Click on "Create a video," then select "Avatar video," and choose either portrait or landscape orientation.

3. Select "Try new editor."

4. Replace the avatar with one of your choice.

5. Click on "Audio" to upload or record your audio.

6. Enable Voice Mirroring and tap "Add to scene."

7. Select "Generate and Submit."

AI Tools to check out

🌐 Co.dev: Text to app in minutes.

👉 Infuzu: This platform automatically finds the best language model for every request, so you don’t have to.

👀 Quso.ai: Boost social growth and efficiency 10x with an all-in-one AI for social media.

🗣 Yapz: A free online form builder designed to get people to speak their mind in realtime.

📝 Survicate: Survey and listen to your customers across every channel, automatically identify key themes, and rally teams around feedback.

AI Findings/Resources

👀 Zuckerberg says Meta is creating AI friends

⭐ Vibe coding: everything you need to know in one image

🔍 AI knowledge repository - NHS England

✅ Making AI models more trustworthy for high-stakes settings

💉 Breaking the ‘intellectual bottleneck’: How AI is computing the previously uncomputable in healthcare

The latest in AI and Tech

Microsoft preparing to host Musk's Grok AI model

The tech giant has been in discussions with Musk's xAI to host the Grok model on its Azure AI Foundry platform. This move would make Grok accessible to developers and Microsoft’s internal product teams, allowing integration into applications and services.

Pinterest will now tell you when you’re looking at AI-generated content

The company is introducing new features that will automatically label images detected as generated or edited with generative AI and give users the option to see fewer of them when browsing similar topics.

Amazon launches Nova Premier, its ‘most capable’ AI model yet

The new model can process text, images, and videos (but not audio) and is available through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon claims that Premier excels at “complex tasks” that “require deep understanding of context, multi-step planning, and precise execution across multiple tools and data sources.”

The Gemini app can now edit images

Gemini's latest update introduces native AI image editing capabilities, allowing users to modify both uploaded photographs and AI-generated images. The new feature is being rolled out gradually and will be available in “over 45 languages and most countries in the coming weeks.”

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