Claude gains Office-style file creation, memory, incognito mode

Anthropic announced this week that its Claude chatbot has gained two major productivity upgrades and a privacy option: a system that can generate fully functional Office-style files and a memory feature that remembers work-related context for some paid users, while an incognito mode that prevents any saving of conversations is available to everyone. The changes, unveiled in a company blog post and rolling out now, aim to make Claude more useful for teams, small businesses and knowledge workers who want the assistant to carry context across tasks or create finished documents from a single prompt.

Anthropic said the upgraded file creation and analysis capability gives Claude access to a private, sandboxed computing environment where it can write and run code and produce downloadable Excel spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slides and PDFs. The company described examples in which Claude converts CSV survey data into a workbook with pivot tables and formulas, or turns meeting notes into formatted documents and slide decks in minutes. The feature is available as a preview to higher-tier subscribers, with Anthropic naming Max, Team and Enterprise plans as initial recipients and...