# Claude

Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to the US federal Genesis Mission, aimed at making Claude available to more than 15 participating agencies, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The funding will reach several hundred research projects as Claude, Claude Code and API credits, with training and technical support, focused on priorities such as fusion energy and quantum computing. The company had already worked with the Department of Energy to bring Claude to national laboratory scientists.

Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to the US federal Genesis Mission, aimed at making Claude available to more than 15 participating agencies, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. The funding will reach several hundred research projects as Claude, Claude Code and API credits, with training and technical support, focused on priorities such as fusion energy and quantum computing. The company had already worked with the Department of Energy to bring Claude to national laboratory scientists.

Anthropic has published a repository of example skills for the skills system Claude uses: a skill is a folder of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads dynamically to complete a specialized task repeatably, such as producing documents under a company's brand guidelines, analyzing data with an organization's workflows, or automating personal tasks. The repository also open-sources, under Apache 2.0, the docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx document skills that power Claude's document capabilities, as a reference for more complex skills in a production AI application; the skills are for demonstration and education only, and behavior received from Claude may differ from what they show, so they should be tested thoroughly before critical use.

Anthropic has published a repository of example skills for the skills system Claude uses: a skill is a folder of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads dynamically to complete a specialized task repeatably, such as producing documents under a company's brand guidelines, analyzing data with an organization's workflows, or automating personal tasks. The repository also open-sources, under Apache 2.0, the docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx document skills that power Claude's document capabilities, as a reference for more complex skills in a production AI application; the skills are for demonstration and education only, and behavior received from Claude may differ from what they show, so they should be tested thoroughly before critical use.

Anthropic has opened a call for guest investigators in the life sciences, inviting principal investigators and their groups at academic institutions, nonprofits, or government labs to work directly with Anthropic researchers for 8 to 12 weeks on causal human biology, structural and computational molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and clinical science using Claude. Anthropic runs its models and harnesses at no cost, outputs are published jointly with open-source data and code, and guest investigators retain rights to their data throughout. Applications are open for about 14 days, with selections expected by email roughly 14 days after the close.

Anthropic has opened a call for guest investigators in the life sciences, inviting principal investigators and their groups at academic institutions, nonprofits, or government labs to work directly with Anthropic researchers for 8 to 12 weeks on causal human biology, structural and computational molecular biology, medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, and clinical science using Claude. Anthropic runs its models and harnesses at no cost, outputs are published jointly with open-source data and code, and guest investigators retain rights to their data throughout. Applications are open for about 14 days, with selections expected by email roughly 14 days after the close.

Anthropic added a security center, inference hooks, centralized management and new access controls to Claude Enterprise, so security teams can see how their organization's configuration differs from Anthropic's recommended setup, send prompts and tool calls to existing data security tools for a check before they run, and manage identity and access from one place. The security center and centralized management remain in beta while inference hooks are generally available; the security center is guidance based on recommendations, not a certification or a guarantee of compliance.

Anthropic added a security center, inference hooks, centralized management and new access controls to Claude Enterprise, so security teams can see how their organization's configuration differs from Anthropic's recommended setup, send prompts and tool calls to existing data security tools for a check before they run, and manage identity and access from one place. The security center and centralized management remain in beta while inference hooks are generally available; the security center is guidance based on recommendations, not a certification or a guarantee of compliance.

Anthropic has merged Claude's chat and Cowork into a single Claude on web, desktop and mobile, now generally available for Claude Enterprise plans. Previously the two were separate experiences that had to be used and managed independently, so teams chose a tool before starting work. A conversation now begins as chat and continues in an Anthropic-managed cloud environment when a task needs code or files, so work keeps running after a laptop closes and can be resumed on any device.

Anthropic has merged Claude's chat and Cowork into a single Claude on web, desktop and mobile, now generally available for Claude Enterprise plans. Previously the two were separate experiences that had to be used and managed independently, so teams chose a tool before starting work. A conversation now begins as chat and continues in an Anthropic-managed cloud environment when a task needs code or files, so work keeps running after a laptop closes and can be resumed on any device.

IDC has connected its Quanta technology-intelligence platform to Claude through an MCP connector, so a customer can describe a market, strategy or purchasing question in Claude and receive finished analysis built on IDC forecasts and data, with each answer citing the IDC document or dataset behind it. Previously, applying market research meant reading long reports to reach answers such as a vendor shortlist or a competitive brief. IDC has also deployed Claude across the company, where its engineers rebuilt an internal data repository in three weeks instead of an estimated three months.

IDC has connected its Quanta technology-intelligence platform to Claude through an MCP connector, so a customer can describe a market, strategy or purchasing question in Claude and receive finished analysis built on IDC forecasts and data, with each answer citing the IDC document or dataset behind it. Previously, applying market research meant reading long reports to reach answers such as a vendor shortlist or a competitive brief. IDC has also deployed Claude across the company, where its engineers rebuilt an internal data repository in three weeks instead of an estimated three months.

Anthropic released ready-to-use, adaptable and shareable artifacts for legal teams, interactive tools such as trackers and dashboards, and opened a legal gallery covering contract review, regulatory change tracking and intake of legal requests from the business. Legal teams had most often asked for simpler setup and easier collaboration with colleagues; each artifact opens with an example so users see how the work comes together before adding their own data and connectors, and every answer or output links to its source.

Anthropic released ready-to-use, adaptable and shareable artifacts for legal teams, interactive tools such as trackers and dashboards, and opened a legal gallery covering contract review, regulatory change tracking and intake of legal requests from the business. Legal teams had most often asked for simpler setup and easier collaboration with colleagues; each artifact opens with an example so users see how the work comes together before adding their own data and connectors, and every answer or output links to its source.

Anthropic has published a skills repository that turns Claude's skills for specialized tasks into self-contained folders, each holding a SKILL.md file with instructions and metadata that Claude loads dynamically when needed. The repository collects example skills across creative, development and testing, and enterprise communication work, and also releases the docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx document skills that power Claude's document capabilities; those four are source-available rather than open source. The skills are presented for demonstration and educational purposes, and Anthropic notes that actual implementations and behaviors may differ, so they should be tested thoroughly before critical use.

Anthropic has published a skills repository that turns Claude's skills for specialized tasks into self-contained folders, each holding a SKILL.md file with instructions and metadata that Claude loads dynamically when needed. The repository collects example skills across creative, development and testing, and enterprise communication work, and also releases the docx, pdf, pptx and xlsx document skills that power Claude's document capabilities; those four are source-available rather than open source. The skills are presented for demonstration and educational purposes, and Anthropic notes that actual implementations and behaviors may differ, so they should be tested thoroughly before critical use.

Anthropic has made three admin features generally available for Claude Enterprise: smart reports sample a team's transcripts, group the work into workstreams and show each one's spend, deliverables and common friction points; in-app surveys collect members' own account of value; and pooled group budgets give a team one shared monthly budget while member limits remain a guardrail. All three shipped the same day, with availability varying by configuration, including HIPAA configurations and organizations using customer-managed encryption keys.

Anthropic has made three admin features generally available for Claude Enterprise: smart reports sample a team's transcripts, group the work into workstreams and show each one's spend, deliverables and common friction points; in-app surveys collect members' own account of value; and pooled group budgets give a team one shared monthly budget while member limits remain a guardrail. All three shipped the same day, with availability varying by configuration, including HIPAA configurations and organizations using customer-managed encryption keys.