Claude Can Now Build and Host AI-Powered Apps

Anthropic, this week, introduced a beta feature that allows Claude to build, host, and share AI-powered apps within the chatbot, leveraging its Artifacts capability, as shown in the video below. Developers can see and interact with these apps, iterating faster on their creation, as Claude creates artifacts that interact with the chatbot through an API. "Simply describe what you want to create, and Claude will write the code for you," explains the start-up. "Describe any app idea to Claude—a personalized storytelling tool, coding tutor, creative writing assistant—and watch it come to life, no coding required." It's a kind of vibe coding feature, but with the ability to see results inside Claude.  

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Harvard Releases a Dataset that Contains a Book Collection of 394 Million Titles

Harvard University has released a dataset of library books, named Institutional Books 1.0, for researchers, which contains over 394 million records, according to the AP. These materials, preserved and organized by generations of librarians, comprise nearly one million books in 254 languages, dating back to the 15th century. The largest concentration of works is from the 19th century, on subjects such as literature, philosophy, law, and agriculture. Supported financially by Microsoft and OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is collaborating with libraries and museums worldwide on how to prepare their AI collections for the public. "Librarians have always been the stewards of data and the stewards of information," said Aristana Scourtas, who manages research at Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab. These datasets were shared this month on the Hugging Face platform, which hosts open-source AI models that anyone can download.  

OpenAI Gets a $200 Million Contract to Develop AI Models for the Pentagon

OpenAI was awarded a $200 million, one-year contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop "prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains." The Defense Department specified that the contract is with OpenAI Public Sector LLC. The new contract represents a small portion of OpenAI's revenue, which is generating over $10 billion in annualized sales. In March, the company announced a $40 billion financing round at a valuation of $300 billion. In April, Microsoft, which supplies cloud infrastructure to OpenAI, announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency had authorized the use of the Azure OpenAI service with classified information. Also, this year, OpenAI said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for "national security missions." Currently, OpenAI is working to build additional AI infrastructure in the U.S. under the $500 billion Stargate project. In 2024, Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, announced plans to collaborate with Palantir and Amazon to provide its AI models to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

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Claude.ai Began Rolling Out a “Voice Mode” Feature on its Chatbot

Anthropic’s Claude began rolling out a “voice mode” (currently in beta) for its Claude chatbot apps last week. This feature enables users to engage in and maintain complete spoken conversations with Claude, according to the AI startup. Additionally, Anthropic’s voice mode enables users to discuss topics such as documents and images and select from five distinct voice options. Users can also switch between text and voice on the fly and view a transcript and summary of conversations. The capability comes with limits for free users, including a 20-30 conversation limit. Only paid Claude subscribers can use a Google Workspace connector that allows voice mode to access Google Calendar appointments and Gmail emails. Google Docs integration is exclusive to Claude Enterprise plans. OpenAI, Google’s Gemini Live, and xAI’s Grok already offer a similar voice feature, allowing users to interact with bots by speaking instead of typing. We're rolling out voice mode in beta on mobile. Try starting a voice conversation and asking Claude to summarize your calendar or search your docs. pic.twitter.com/xVo5VHiCEb — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) May 27, 2025 Voice mode in beta is available in English and coming to all plans in the next few weeks. Download the Claude mobile app: https://t.co/kvn5yp6fAl — Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) May 27, 2025

The Ohio State Will Require College Students to Be Fluent on AI

The Ohio State has launched a program named "AI Fluency Initiative" that will embed AI education throughout the undergraduate curriculum and ask every student to use artificial intelligence. “Through AI Fluency, Ohio State students will be fluent in both their major field of study and the application of AI in that area,” Ravi V. Bellamkonda, executive vice president and provost at the Ohio State University (OSU), said. OSU will officially incorporate AI fluency into every major, offering general education courses and helping faculty adapt existing courses to incorporate AI. The university will now require students to take an AI skills seminar, incorporating workshops into the existing framework, such as the First-Year Seminar program.

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