INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Still, the report contained a direct quote statement from William Higinbotham that appears to combine quotes from twosources not cited in
(One must always be careful with confabulated quotes in AI because even outside of this Research mode, Claude 3.7 Sonnet tends to invent
plausible ones to fit a narrative.) We recently covered a study that showed AI search services confabulate sources frequently, and in this
case, it appears that the sources Claude Research surfaced, while real, did not always match what is stated in the report.There's always
room for interpretation and variation in detail, of course, but overall, Claude Research did a relatively good job crafting a report on this
Still, you'd want to dig more deeply into each source and confirm everything if you used it as the basis for serious research
You can read the full Claude-generated result as this text file, saved in markdown format
Sadly, the markdown version does not include the source URLS found in the Claude web interface.Anthropic also announced Thursday that it has
broadened Claude's data access capabilities
In addition to web search and Google Workspace integration, Claude can now search any connected application through the company's new
The feature reminds us somewhat of OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugins feature from March 2023 that aimed for similar connections, although the two
features work differently under the hood.These Integrations allow Claude to work with remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers across web
The MCP standard, which Anthropic introduced last November and we covered in April, connects AI applications to external tools and data
sources.At launch, Claude supports Integrations with 10 services, including Atlassian's Jira and Confluence, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom,
Asana, Square, Sentry, PayPal, Linear, and Plaid
The company plans to add more partners like Stripe and GitLab in the future.Each integration aims to expand Claude's functionality in
The Zapier integration, for instance, reportedly connects thousands of apps through pre-built automation sequences, allowing Claude to
automatically pull sales data from HubSpot or prepare meeting briefs based on calendar entries
With Atlassian's tools, Anthropic says that Claude can collaborate on product development, manage tasks, and create multiple Confluence
pages and Jira work items simultaneously.Anthropic has made its advanced Research and Integrations features available in beta for users on
Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with Pro plan access coming soon
The company has also expanded its web search feature (introduced in March) to all Claude users on paid plans globally.
