Claude Ships Slide Decks, Google Opens Your Smart Home

In a single cycle, Anthropic collapsed its two Claude products into one and added editable documents, slide decks and designs inside the conversation, with export to PowerPoint and PDF. Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live, a voice model that keeps executing a task in the background while the conversation continues, and opened a Google Home connector that lets third-party agents like Claude and ChatGPT operate smart home devices and read camera summaries — sitting alongside Meta's WhatsApp Business connector from the day before. The unit being sold is moving from the answer you copy out of a chat window to the artifact the assistant produces and the system it operates, which puts these products in competition with Office, Workspace and the device app rather than with other chatbots. Ar ...