Guides and news about Claude, Claude Code and Anthropic's tools: how to use them, new features, plans and limits.
14 guides and news items, newest first
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Helps you understand what Claude AI is, compare the Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans against business needs, and sign up and install it to try it out.
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The same three office tasks sent through the API and graded by code: Haiku 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 both scored 15/15, with Haiku faster and 18 times cheaper. Official prices, method and limits.
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An introduction to grill-me from mattpocock/skills: Claude asks in rounds, each question with a recommendation, and writes only once you agree. Install, how to answer, and a real run planning an AI training session.
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A real test of Claude Code building an Excel report with formulas and a chart, then adding October. With nothing installed, Claude loaded its built-in xlsx skill; installing document-skills gave the same result.
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Claude Max and Team include monthly Claude API credits, but you must link a Console organization to receive them. The steps, how to verify the credit is being used, and the wrong-organization mistake we made.
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As of October 8, 2026, Claude Docs, Slides and Design are out of beta and available on every plan, including Free. Anthropic also launched Claude Dashboards in beta for paid plans and Claude Motion for Team and Enterprise.
Cover image: Anthropic · Source: claude.comNews ·
Anthropic published a new Usage Policy for Claude on October 8, 2026, taking effect November 12, 2026, banning sustained abuse of the AI and tightening weapons, surveillance and deception rules.
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The same café landing-page prompt, three runs: no skill, skill installed, skill named. Installed alone, Claude did not use it; named in the prompt, the page broke away from the usual AI look.
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On Oct 9, 2026, Anthropic published a report on unintended Claude behaviors, revealing its Haiku 4.5 model sent a fake tip to Philadelphia police in July 2026.
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Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026 — its cheapest, fastest small model yet — and began rolling out monthly API credits for Max and Team subscribers to run their own apps and agents on the Claude Platform.
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Describe the task, let skill-creator write SKILL.md, then use it right away: a real test of a skill that turns hasty, diacritic-free meeting notes into Word minutes in a fixed template, without inventing anything.
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A skill is a folder of instructions Claude opens when a task matches its description. How to install anthropics/skills in Claude Code with two commands, and a real run of the PowerPoint skill: six slides with a chart, self-checked and self-fixed.
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Anthropic launched a public beta of Claude for Google Workspace on October 6, 2026 for all paid Claude plans, adding a Claude sidebar to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides for editing text, writing formulas and building slides.
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Anthropic's official support page confirms Claude can now open and edit Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides live in a pane beside the chat, on Claude web and Claude Desktop, as a beta feature.
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