📊 Claude AI Comes to Excel

Today’s Highlights:

• 📊 Claude AI Comes to Excel with Finance-Focused Tools

• 🎨 Adobe launches AI assistants for Express and Photoshop

• 🇺🇸 Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia

• 🏢 PayPal Brings Instant Checkout to ChatGPT

• 🇺🇸 Qualcomm Joins AI Server Chip Race

• 🇨🇳 MiniMax-M2 Outshines GPT-5 in Agent Workflows

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LATEST AI NEWS

ANTHROPIC

📊 Claude AI Comes to Excel with Finance-Focused Tools

Anthropic has launched Claude for Excel and rolled out new finance features, aiming to rival Microsoft Copilot and position Claude as the go-to AI assistant for the financial sector.

The Details:

• Claude now integrates with Excel, allowing users to analyze, modify, and build spreadsheets inside a sidebar

• Supports traceable, cell-level transparency to address AI trust concerns in financial modeling

• Connectors added for Moody’s, LSEG, MT Newswires, Egnyte, Aiera, and Chronograph, expanding Claude’s real-time market data access

• New “Agent Skills” automate key tasks like DCF models, comp tables, earnings analysis, and pitch decks

• Major clients include AIG, Norges Bank, Bridgewater’s AIA Labs, and Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Why it matters:

Claude’s Excel integration and finance tools are a direct play for the $97B financial AI market. With live data, transparency features, and industry-specific automation, Anthropic is positioning itself as a trusted partner for high-stakes, regulated environments.

ADOBE

🎨 Adobe launches AI assistants for Express and Photoshop

Adobe has launched new AI assistants in Photoshop and Express, offering users prompt-based image creation, smart editing tools, and deeper generative integration across its Creative Cloud ecosystem.

The Details:

• Express now features an assistant mode for text-prompt image and design creation

• Photoshop’s new AI assistant (in closed beta) can understand layers, select objects, and create masks

• Adobe is testing “Project Moonlight,” a cross-app assistant that syncs user style across tools and platforms

• The company is exploring ChatGPT integration via OpenAI’s app API for design generation inside ChatGPT

• Users can now access third-party models like Gemini 2.5 and FLUX.1 for Photoshop’s generative fill

Why it matters:

Adobe is reinventing its creative suite with assistants that blend AI prompts and hands-on control. As AI editing becomes the norm, Adobe’s ecosystem approach gives it a unique edge in shaping how creators work across apps.

OPENAI

 💬 1M users discuss suicide with ChatGPT

OpenAI has disclosed that more than a million ChatGPT users each week send messages suggesting suicidal thoughts or severe emotional crises, underscoring the growing emotional dependence on AI systems.

The Details:

• Around 0.15% of ChatGPT’s 800M weekly users show signs of suicidal planning or intent

• Hundreds of thousands more display emotional attachment, psychosis, or manic behavior in chats

• OpenAI consulted 170 mental health experts to improve GPT-5’s handling of crisis conversations

• GPT-5 now produces “desirable responses” 65% more often and achieves 91% compliance on self-harm tests

• The company is adding safety benchmarks for emotional reliance and parental controls for minors

Why it matters:

AI chatbots are becoming emotional outlets for millions, not just digital tools. OpenAI’s data exposes both the risks and responsibilities of building empathetic AI — a challenge that could shape future mental health standards in technology.

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AI & TECH NEWS

💳 PayPal Brings Instant Checkout to ChatGPT

PayPal will power AI shopping inside ChatGPT starting in 2026 using OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol. Users can browse and complete purchases within chat, using PayPal wallets and cards—no redirects, no extra steps.

🇺🇸 Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Rival Wikipedia

Elon Musk just dropped Grokipedia, an AI-written encyclopedia with over 800,000 machine-generated entries, aiming to challenge Wikipedia. But with political slants and concerns about information control, critics warn it could reshape how truth is defined in the AI age.

🇨🇳 MiniMax-M2 Outshines GPT-5 in Agent Workflows

China’s MiniMax-M2 is leading open-weight models in tool use, coding, and reasoning—just behind GPT-5 and Claude 4.5. With enterprise-ready pricing ($0.30/$1.20 per million tokens) and an MIT license, it’s now the top open choice for building smart AI agents.

🏢 Amazon to Lay Off 30,000 Corporate Employees

Amazon will eliminate up to 30,000 corporate roles—around 10% of its white-collar workforce—in its largest layoff to date. The cuts hit human resources, device teams, and operations as the company reverses pandemic-era overhiring. CEO Andy Jassy cites AI tools reducing staffing needs. Shares rose on the announcement.

🇺🇸 Qualcomm Joins AI Server Chip Race

Qualcomm unveiled AI200 and AI250 chips for data centers, aiming to rival Nvidia and AMD in AI inference. Launching in 2026–27, the chips promise 768GB memory, lower power use, and big clients like Saudi Arabia’s Humain on board.

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