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AI - Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data, interactive connectors, and a free full reset

It is not my usual thing to do Anthropic news two days in a row, but both of these are big things 🤣

Yesterday it was Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, and today Anthropic has had a change of heart about resets and given everyone on a paid plan a free FULL reset. On top of that, Claude is getting Whiteboards, Sheets and Data, and interactive connectors can now open the full version of tools such as Adobe, Atlassian and Box right inside Claude.

A free FULL reset is great, and the additional features are phenomenal too! 😊

A free full reset, across all models

In my Fable 5.2 post, I mentioned that the launch resets only restored the usage you had spent on Fable models. That was great if you wanted to test Fable, but not much help if you had already hit your weekly limit on everything else.

Anthropic has now gone a step further and given all Pro, Max, Ultra and Team users one free full reset across all models and limits. Anthropic also admits that a few issues were using up more of people’s limits than intended.

Official announcement

We’ve given all Pro, Max, Ultra, and Team users one free full reset, across all models and limits. Use it anytime before December 10 at 2:00PM PT.

We recently fixed a few small issues that used more limits than intended, and the Fable resets didn’t do much for those of you who’d already hit your weekly limits for all models. While these issues didn’t affect everyone, we want to make up for the trouble.

You’ll find it in Settings > Usage, or at http://clau.de/reset.

Enjoy the reset 🧡

We also changed the UI to show the exact expiry time so you don’t miss it, and it’s (hopefully) more clear now what the Fable reset does!

🚨 Claude code users !!
Anthropic ADMITTED the limit bugs !!

To make up, everyone gets one free full reset!

They said they fixed a few issues that used more limits than intended.

And the Fable resets didn’t help people already at their weekly limit.

Is this enough ?

Is it enough? I think it is a really nice gesture 😊 Bugs that eat into your limits are annoying, but owning up to it and giving everyone a full reset (rather than another Fable-only one) is exactly the right way to handle it. And yes, I will very much be using mine to test Fable 5.2 properly 😉

NOTE

The full reset is available to Pro, Max, Ultra and Team users and covers all models and limits. You can use it at any time before 10 December at 2:00 pm PT (10:00 pm in the UK) from Settings > Usage in Claude, or by going to clau.de/reset.

It is separate from the Fable launch resets, which only restore Fable usage. If you are on Pro or a Team standard seat, remember that your Fable reset expires much sooner, on 16 November at 11:59 pm PT.

Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data

Claude is getting three new types of artifact. Whiteboards and Sheets are new and in beta, while Claude Dashboards, which I wrote about in October, is now generally available and has been renamed Claude Data.

Official announcement

Starting to roll out today: Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets and Claude Data.

Think a plan through on a board, build a tracker in a sheet, and tell a story with your data.

Introducing Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data

Today we’re launching Claude Whiteboards and Claude Sheets in beta, and Claude Dashboards becomes generally available as Claude Data. Whiteboards is a shared board where your team brainstorms with Claude, Sheets is a spreadsheet Claude builds and edits with you, and Claude Data adds data stories, certified queries, and live sharing. These are available on all paid plans.

What is new?

According to Anthropic:

Whiteboards, Sheets and Data work on web, desktop and mobile. Claude Data needs a data connector, such as a data warehouse or CRM.

NOTE

All three are available on all paid plans, but the defaults for admins differ:

  • Team plans: Whiteboards, Sheets and Data are all on by default.
  • Enterprise plans: Whiteboards and Sheets are off by default, and Claude Data turns on by default on 19 November 2026.

Admins can change these at any time in Organization settings > Artifacts.

From the people who built it

We just added Whiteboards and Sheets to Claude, and Dashboards is now Claude Data.

Work with your team and Claude to:

• Sketch a plan and brainstorm live
• Ask for a formula in plain words
• Turn the numbers into a story

Sketch, sum, show it in Claude

🧵 we are so excited to be launching claude whiteboards today – there’s so many magical little features in this product that have made it so fun (and useful!) for day-to-day work

launching today to all paid plans!

“Dashboards” didn’t do the name justice. Claude Data is the most flexible way to tell a story around your data

Query or upload company data, and turn it into beautiful reports, narrated videos and of course, dashboards. Loved working on this new member of the artifacts family

Very fun to see the team both ship new native artifact types like sheets and whiteboards today, and also open up the platform for developers to build full experiences into Claude as well.

A handy summary

🚨 Anthropic just shipped a massive workspace expansion across ALL paid Claude plans:

→ Claude Whiteboards (beta): real-time shared boards, drag-box Q&A, Lucid/Miro exports
→ Claude Sheets (beta): multi-tab formulas, drop-downs, tracked cell edits, .xlsx export
→ Claude Data (GA): Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift/Salesforce dashboards with certified metric badges, caching & narrated video stories
→ Full-screen Interactive Connectors: open full Notion, Adobe, Confluence, Box, Canva & Vercel editors directly inside Claude

And buried in the blog post: “Claude Meetings is coming soon.”

Claude can basically handle everything behind the scenes for a business now…

your backend should be fully automated behind the scenes:

> new leads coming in and getting sorted
> invoices sent and followed up on
> orders and customers tracked
> weekly numbers turned into a report
> next month’s plan mapped out

this is how you need to set it up:

  1. write down every task your business repeats each week
  2. map out how those tasks connect to each other on a Whiteboard
  3. connect Claude to the apps your business runs on
  4. turn each repeated task into a skill Claude can follow
  5. track all the work Claude handles in one Sheet
  6. put those skills on a schedule so your backend runs on its own

there’s absolutely zero reason you shouldn’t be automating your whole business’s back end with Claude.

The steps make sense as a way of thinking about automation, but “absolutely zero reason” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there 🤣 I would still want a human checking the invoices before they go out, at least until I trusted it.

Interactive connectors now open the full tool

The other big piece of news is an upgrade to interactive connectors. Until now, they mainly showed a small live view of a tool inside the conversation. Now, where a connector supports it, you can open the full tool beside your chat or in full screen, and either work in it yourself or ask Claude to make the changes.

Official announcement

Also new: with interactive connectors, you can now open the full version of a tool inside Claude. Work in Adobe, Atlassian, and Box beside your conversation. Make changes yourself, or ask Claude to make them with you.

Rolling out on web and desktop.

Your apps can now open in Claude, and Claude can work in them

Earlier this year, we launched interactive connectors to bring a small live view of tools into Claude. Starting today, where a connector supports it, you can open a tool beside your conversation or expand it to full screen, and ask Claude to work alongside you and make changes directly.

What is new?

According to Anthropic:

According to the Claude Help Center, the in-chat views run in sandboxed iframes with strict Content Security Policies, use the same permissions you granted when connecting the tool, and cannot make purchases.

NOTE

The side panel, full-screen view and pinning are rolling out on web and desktop, on all plans, as part of the new Claude experience. You will see them once your account gets the new Claude, or once your organisation turns it on. To try it, connect a connector with the Interactive badge from the Connectors Directory, then open it from your chat or the sidebar.

For admins: if your organisation already allows all of a connector’s tools, the new features appear as they roll out. Team and Enterprise owners can disable the tool calls that render interactive connectors in Organization settings > Connectors, without disabling the connector itself.

What people are saying

This is big. Claude can now open some of your work apps inside the conversation, not only describe them.

What you can do: with interactive connectors, a supported tool such as Adobe, Atlassian (Confluence), or Box opens beside your chat or full screen. Edit it yourself, or ask Claude to make the change. You approve Claude’s actions the same way you approve any connector’s.

Why it matters: fewer tab switches. For Confluence or Notion, Anthropic says you get the full editor, signed in to your own account, not a limited preview.

How to set it up: in the Connectors Directory, connect one with the “Interactive” badge, then ask Claude about something it handles. You can also open a supported tool from Claude’s sidebar and pin it.

Where it works: the in-chat interactive views work on web, desktop, and the iOS and Android apps. The side panel, full-site view, and pinning are rolling out on web and desktop, on all plans, as accounts get the new Claude experience. Not on mobile yet.

For builders: it runs on MCP Apps, an open extension to the Model Context Protocol, so one app can run in any host that supports it. App tools and embedded sites are in public preview.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13454812-use-interactive-connectors-in-claude

You can now embed your website in Claude and have it be interactable. You can do this via MCP apps, where we’ve enabled frame_domains support for verified plugins.

It was a blast to build this out with the team & our partners, let us know what you think!

Alongside new office tools like Claude Sheets that compete with Microsoft $MSFT, Anthropic now lets partner apps open full screen inside Claude.

Open Adobe, Notion, Box or Canva beside your chat, and Claude can edit pages and files live with your approval.

Built on MCP Apps.

We’re super stoked to work with the team at Anthropic to add an even more powerful human and agent collaboration experience into Claude with apps like Edit rich, collaborative documents with your human and agent teammates right from within Claude.

Working in @claudeai? Check out the interactive connectors to make changes or ask Claude to make them directly for you!

This is a bigger deal for marketers than people think.

Claude can now open the full app right next to your chat. Today it’s Adobe, Atlassian, and Box.

Now imagine:

  • Webflow or Framer open, editing your landing page while Claude rewrites the copy
  • HubSpot open, building the email sequence together
  • Meta Ads Manager open, launching the variants Claude just wrote
  • Ahrefs open, picking keywords and drafting the brief in one place
  • Figma open, iterating on ad creative without exporting anything

No more copying and pasting between 12 tabs. You make the change, or you ask Claude to.

If you’re building a marketing tool, shipping a great connector just became one of the most important things on your roadmap.

I think Corey has the most interesting point here. Some of these (Webflow, HubSpot) are already on Anthropic’s list, but the bigger shift is that a good interactive connector becomes something every SaaS vendor will want to build. Because it is built on MCP Apps rather than something Claude-only, the same app should also work in other AI tools that support the extension 😊

Is this the end of Microsoft Office? 🤣

Of course, X immediately decided that Anthropic had just killed half of the software industry.

The slight overreactions

Anthropic just killed:

> Google Sheets
> Excel
> TLDraw
> Airtable
> Miro
> Excalidraw
> FigJam
> Whimsical
> Lucidchart
> Lucidspark
> Mural
> Tableau
> Looker
> Power BI
> Metabase
> Hex
> Julius
> Mode
> Sigma
> ThoughtSpot
> Omni
> Lightdash
> Preset
> Redash
> Deepnote
> Observable
> Evidence
> Qlik
> Domo
> Rows
> Smartsheet
> Coda
> Notion databases
> Equals
> Causal
> Pigment
> Quadratic
> Sourcetable
> Grist
> Baserow
> NocoDB
> SeaTable
> Stackby
> Zoho Sheet
> Apple Numbers
> LibreOffice Calc
> Datawrapper
> Flourish
> Polymer
> Akkio
> Eraser
> Napkin
> Draw io
> Visio
> Gliffy
> Creately
> Milanote
> Stormboard
> Conceptboard
> Klaxoon
> Heptabase
> Kinopio
> Obsidian Canvas
> Canva Whiteboards
> Microsoft Whiteboard
> Zoom Whiteboard
> Apple Freeform

Everything’s totally fine.

Interesting take 🤣 Slightly overreacting, I think, especially as Anthropic itself partners with several of the companies on that list (Smartsheet, Omni and Sigma, for example) and says Sheets has only simple spreadsheet functionality for now.

Claude just launched Whiteboards, Sheets, and Data.

Apps that should be worried:

> Google Sheets
> Excel
> Airtable
> Notion databases
> Smartsheet
> Miro
> FigJam
> Lucidchart
> Excalidraw
> Mural
> Canva Whiteboards
> Microsoft Whiteboard
> Apple Freeform
> Tableau
> Power BI
> Looker
> Metabase
> Hex
> Observable
> Visio

Everything’s totally fine.

Claude is coming for software 👀

.@AnthropicAI is building every SaaS product into @claudeai – and making them free for life.

@Office365, @google, @canva, @figma…. right down the line.

and this can’t be antitrust if the products are FREE FOR LIFE – right?! docket @DavidSacks!

MICROSOFT is no longer the bundler – they are now the bundled.

The biggest threat to Microsoft Office is “Claude Office.”

Anthropic is dumping free Office products and features to its giant AI customer base.

Microsoft has no choice: they must launch a CLAUDE competitor quickly.

‼️Anthropic just build a Microsoft office clone with native Claude functionality.

Elon: “OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive”

He was right … Microsoft is about to be decimated

ANTHROPIC LAUNCHES CLAUDE SHEETS, WHITEBOARDS & LIVE DATA DASHBOARDS

Anthropic is expanding Claude with new productivity tools, moving further into Microsoft $MSFT’s territory.

Here’s what’s new:

• Claude Sheets (beta): Build and edit spreadsheets with formulas, tabs, formatting, and dropdowns. Export to Excel when needed.

• Claude Whiteboards (beta): Brainstorm with AI, collaborate with teammates, assign tasks, and turn plans into documents or presentations.

• Claude Data: Create live dashboards connected to company databases like BigQuery and Redshift, with certified metrics, data analysis, and live sharing.

• Interactive apps: Open Adobe, Notion, Atlassian, Box, and other connected applications alongside Claude, allowing users and AI to work in them together.

Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data are available on all paid plans.

The launch comes as Anthropic begins its IPO roadshow.

Microsoft is seriously falling behind in the AI race, despite having one of the biggest software ecosystems in the world.

They already own Excel, Power BI, Whiteboard, GitHub, Azure, and Microsoft 365. They have the infrastructure, enterprise customers, and billions to invest in AI.

Yet Anthropic is now rolling out Claude Whiteboards, Sheets, and Data, bringing planning, spreadsheets, and data analysis into one AI-powered experience.

Microsoft has been building Copilot across its products for years, but the experience still feels fragmented across different apps.

That’s the problem. Microsoft has all the pieces, but competitors are making those pieces work together more naturally.

To be fair to Vipin, the point about Copilot feeling fragmented across apps is one I have some sympathy with. But “decimated” is a big word for a beta spreadsheet 🤣

The counterpoints

Excel will be fine. No enterprise is ditching Excel for this.

Claude sheets even exports to excel…

Microsoft is on every side of this. They’re buying into the IPO next week, Anthropic owes them ~$45bn in cloud spend, and they resell the model through Copilot. They’re an investor, landlord, reseller, and now the competition.

They want Anthropic to do well. Funny $MSFT dipped on this.

LOL. Google Sheets was free too.

Companies have entire operations built around Microsoft 365. A free document editor doesn’t unwind that.

Meanwhile, Microsoft already offers Claude inside Copilot.

Who’s bundling who?

I am definitely more in this camp. The financial details in Gabriel’s post are his claims, not something I have checked, but the general point stands: Microsoft is a partner, a reseller and now also a competitor. Josh’s “Who’s bundling who?” is the best line of the lot 🤣 Organisations have years of processes, compliance and licensing built around Microsoft 365, and a new beta spreadsheet in Claude does not undo that overnight.

Where I think it does matter is for smaller teams and for “quick” work: the tracker, the budget, the retro board. Those are exactly the things people currently create in Excel or Miro and then forget about, and having them sit next to the conversation with Claude could be really handy.

And speaking of Microsoft already offering Claude inside Copilot…

Claude models enabled by default in Copilot for EU tenants

This is a separate piece of news, but very much worth highlighting for anyone managing Microsoft 365 in Europe.

Microsoft will enable Claude models in Copilot by default for EU tenants on 9 December 2026!

Claude models are currently disabled by default for tenants in the EU and EFTA. On December 9, 2026, Microsoft will enable Claude models for tenants that haven’t made a selection for Anthropic under AI providers operating as Microsoft subprocessors in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

With Claude models coming into the EU Data Boundary, Microsoft is also simplifying the controls they provide admins by retiring the option to allow Claude models only in Copilot in Microsoft 365 apps. Tenants using this option will move to All users on December 9.

Other selections you’ve already made will be respected. If you’re already using Claude models, no action is needed, and processing moves into the EU Data Boundary automatically once available. If you don’t want Claude models enabled by default, an admin can opt out before December 9, 2026. After December 9, admins can also disable the use of Claude models at any time.

Official announcement

The source is Microsoft 365 Message Center post MC1546438, “Action may be required: Claude models in Copilot are coming into the EU Data Boundary and will be enabled by default”, which follows Microsoft’s blog post:

Bringing Claude models in Microsoft Copilot into the EU Data Boundary

Today, we’re announcing that Claude models by Anthropic in Microsoft Copilot are coming into the EU Data Boundary, strengthening model choice for organizations across Europe. This means customers will no longer need to choose between access to Claude models and the Microsoft regional data-processing commitments they rely on.

What will happen?

According to MC1546438:

NOTE

This change applies to EU Data Boundary-eligible tenants in the EU and EFTA. The Message Center post does not mention the UK, so UK tenants should not assume their Claude default is changing; check Microsoft Learn and your own admin centre before relying on it.

If you do not want Claude models enabled for everyone, an admin with the AI Administrator or Global Administrator role should, before 9 December 2026, go to the Microsoft 365 admin center > Copilot > Settings > View all > AI providers operating as Microsoft subprocessors > Anthropic, select No users or Specific users and groups, then Save. Microsoft also recommends letting your helpdesk and compliance teams know about the change.

Bringing the processing into the EU Data Boundary is good news, as it removes one of the main reasons European organisations kept Claude switched off. But a default that flips to “All users” is exactly the kind of change that should go through your governance process first, rather than being discovered on 10 December 😉

My take

Two big days in a row from Anthropic 🤣

The free full reset is the bit that will make most people happy right now, and I really appreciate Anthropic owning up to the limit issues instead of quietly fixing them. Whiteboards, Sheets and Data, plus full-tool interactive connectors, feel like a big step towards Claude being the place where work actually happens, not just a chat window you copy and paste out of.

Is it the end of Microsoft Office? No. Is it a sign of where things are heading? Very much so 😊 I have not tried any of the new features yet, but with a full reset to play with, I know what I will be doing this week 😉

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