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Anthropic has expanded Claude’s free tier with advanced features that were previously paid, giving users more ways to create files, connect apps, and build custom workflows. The post Claude is ...

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Anthropic expanded its AI agent tool Cowork to Windows on February 10, closing the platform gap that had limited the desktop application to macOS users since its launch on January 12. The Windows ...

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