November 03, 2025
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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Anthropic just launched Claude for Excel in beta, embedding their AI directly into spreadsheets as a sidebar that reads, edits, and explains every change for finance teams.
Will this integration finally bridge the gap between AI capabilities and everyday business workflows?
In today's recap:
Anthropic embeds Claude directly into Excel for finance work
Cursor's multi-agent system completes complex coding in seconds
Canva unveils Creative OS with rebuilt video and email tools
New AI tools & prompts
ANTHROPIC
Claude AI comes to Excel for Finance
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Recaply: Anthropic is rolling out Claude for Excel in beta, bringing AI directly into spreadsheets. It works as a sidebar that reads, edits, and explains every change. Finance teams can now fix formulas, review data, or build new models without leaving Excel. The beta is open to Max, Enterprise, and Teams users, with 1,000 early access spots.
Key details:
Claude appears in Excel as a sidebar, showing all edits and explanations for full transparency.
It can fix errors, fill templates with new data, and create spreadsheets from scratch while keeping existing layouts.
New connectors connect Claude to data from Aiera, LSEG, Moody's, and other finance sources for real-time market info.
Six new Agent Skills launch for finance tasks, including discounted cash flow models, earnings analyses, and initiating coverage reports.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads the Finance Agent benchmark with 55.3% accuracy on Vals AI tests.
Why it matters: Finance teams spend hours in Excel. Claude streamlines analysis by combining familiar tools, real-time data, and specialized finance skills, reducing friction while boosting productivity and accuracy.
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CURSOR
Cursor unveils multi-agent coding system
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Recaply: Cursor just unveiled Cursor 2.0 featuring Composer, a new AI model that runs four times faster than similar tools. The update introduces a new multi-agent interface several AI assistants work together, helping developers complete complex coding tasks faster and more efficiently.
Key details:
Composer finishes most coding tasks in under 30 seconds, speeding up multi-step development.
The new multi-agent interface lets users run several AI assistants at the same time without them interfering with each other.
Cursor 2.0 includes a built-in browser tool that allows the AI to test its own code and fix mistakes automatically.
The model uses codebase-wide semantic search, helping it understand and navigate large software projects more effectively.
Early testers report the speed improvements make iterating on code feel more natural and enjoyable.
Why it matters: Speed has always been the biggest complaint about AI coding assistants. By making Composer four times faster, Cursor addresses a key frustration that slowed down developer workflows. The ability to run multiple agents simultaneously also hints at a future where AI handles routine coding tasks while humans focus on creative problem-solving.
CANVA
Canva reimagines design with Creative OS
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Recaply: Canva just announced its Creative Operating System, its biggest update yet. The update revamps video editing, introduces email design tools, and brings AI deeper into the creative process.
Key details:
Video 2.0 brings a rebuilt editor with faster timelines, viral-ready templates, and AI-assisted edits.
The world's first Design Model learns your brand style to create editable, on-brand layouts automatically.
Email Design lets users create, preview, and export HTML emails for any platform.
Interactive Forms collect responses directly inside documents and presentations.
Affinity's tools are now built in, giving access to pro-level photo and vector editing.
Why it matters: Canva’s “Imagination Era” push blends simplicity with power. By merging AI, pro tools, and easy design features, Canva removes friction between idea and execution, helping its 260M users create more, faster, all in one place.
NEWS
📰 What matters in AI right now?
OpenAI launched character cameos in Sora 2, enabling users to create and reuse custom characters across video generations with starter options like Frankenstein and Dracula.
Getty Images signed a multi-year licensing deal with Perplexity, providing high-quality imagery for AI search while improving attribution and source crediting.
Perplexity launched Perplexity Patents, a free AI-powered patent research tool that searches using natural language queries across patent literature and related sources.
Grammarly rebranded as Superhuman and launched Superhuman Go, an AI assistant that connects with Gmail, Jira, and Google Drive to automate tasks like ticket logging and scheduling.
Opera introduced Deep Research Agent in Opera Neon, combining multiple AI models to deliver comprehensive research results with top benchmark performance for accuracy.
Moonshot released KIMI CLI, an open-source command-line AI agent for developers featuring shell integration, Agent Client Protocol support, and MCP compatibility.
OpenAI announced Aardvark, a GPT-5-powered security agent in private beta that autonomously discovers and fixes code vulnerabilities, achieving 92% detection accuracy in tests.
IBM launched Granite 4.0 Nano models, ranging from 350M to 1.5B parameters, outperforming similar-sized competitors on instruction following and tool-calling tasks.
Google upgraded NotebookLM with an 8x larger context window, 6x longer conversation memory, and customizable chat goals, boosting response quality by 50%.
PRODUCTIVITY
🧰 AI Tools to Check Out
🎬 Screen Studio: Create beautiful screen recordings with auto‑zoom
📝 DocHub: Edit and sign PDFs online with ease
🤖 LiveChat: Add AI‑powered live chat support to websites instantly
🧩 ChatFast: Build custom GPT chatbots from your own data, no coding needed
📲 ManyChat: Automate chat flows on Instagram, WhatsApp, and TikTok with AI Steps
🧭 Sider: Sidebar to chat with GPT‑4.1, Claude, Gemini, read files, and do OCR
🏗️ PromeAI: Turn design sketches into realistic architectural renderings
🗣️ Talkio: AI voice tutors for practice and pronunciation in 40+ languages
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