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1/ Claude can now build live dashboards and animated videos. Two new things: Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion.

Dashboards connects to company data (Salesforce, Snowflake and the rest) and builds charts that actually update when the numbers change.

Motion takes reports, charts or just ideas and turns them into animated explainers. The clever bit is it uses code instead of AI video, so the text, numbers and animations stay editable. There’s also a Send to Adobe option so you can keep going in Firefly Video Editor. Adobe’s Claude plugin already brings 80+ tools from Photoshop, Premiere, Acrobat etc into Claude, so the two are clearly getting friendlier.

Dashboards is in beta for paid users. Motion is Team and Enterprise only for now. Claude Docs, Slides and Design just came out of beta and are available on Free plans too.

Interesting timing with OpenAI’s Intelligent UI launch. Both companies are pushing past pure text, but Anthropic still feels more focused on the tools people actually use day-to-day. I’ll be trying Dashboards as soon as I get access; live updating charts from real company data is something I’ve wanted for a while.

2/ AI companies are quietly preparing for a major AI disaster. Axios reported that executives at OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs are privately war-gaming a public and political backlash after a catastrophic incident — possibly as soon as 2027. Some insiders apparently expect something within the next 6–12 months. The main fear is an AI-powered cyberattack that knocks out banks, internet, electricity or water.

OpenAI confirmed they run preparedness exercises but stressed these scenarios aren’t inevitable. Anthropic declined to comment.

Worth keeping in perspective: these are scenarios being discussed, not evidence that something is about to happen. Still, the fact that the people building the stuff are running these drills says something.

3/ Three fired OpenAI researchers are pushing back. Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang and Mikita Balesni were let go for allegedly mishandling sensitive information. They’ve published an open letter disputing the accusations and saying OpenAI’s shifting internal rules are making people afraid to speak up.

They claim their actions were within policy (including outside research and access to an executive’s email for recruiting). Wang says she accidentally opened a sensitive email and reported it within minutes. They also deny leaking anything about models becoming harder to monitor.

OpenAI told TechCrunch the firings involved a “pattern of misconduct” and weren’t retaliation for raising safety concerns. The researchers are also worried the firings could undermine plans to bring independent auditors inside the company. OpenAI says it agrees with their recommendations, but whether those plans actually move forward is another question.

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