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Anthropic’s Claude for Word is another challenge to Microsoft’s software empire, and a bid to appeal to lawyers

Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word, another challenge to Microsoft’s software empire and a bid to appeal more to the legal profession.

The AI startup, having pushed Claude into Excel and PowerPoint earlier this year, said its latest add-in for Word is “designed for professionals who work extensively with documents, particularly in legal review, financial memo drafting, and iterative editing.”

On Saturday, Anthropic said Claude for Word would allow users to ask questions about their documents and get answers with clickable section citations.

Other features include the ability to edit selected text while preserving surrounding styles, numbering, and formatting, while a “tracked changes mode” would allow users to accept or reject every edit as a revision, Anthropic explained.

Claude could also work through comment threads, editing the anchored text and replying with what it changed, according to the release.

Anthropic gave examples of prompts lawyers could try when reviewing a legal contract while using Claude for Word.

  • “Summarize the key commercial terms: parties, term, governing law, and anything off-market.”
  • “Flag provisions that deviate from standard market position, ranked by severity.”
  • “Make the indemnification mutual and insert our standard fallback language.”
  • “Work through all five reviewer comments as tracked changes.”
  • “What did the counterparty change, and which revisions are dealbreakers?”

It’s currently available only to Team and Enterprise plans.

With this and other recent launches, Anthropic is making clear it no longer wants to be known primarily as a tool for developers. It wants Claude embedded across the enterprise, supporting finance teams, HR departments, analysts, and executives alike.




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How a 162-year-old Turkish delight shop became a global dessert empire

Hafiz Mustafa has been perfecting Turkish delight since 1864. Now with three factories and 24 locations, including in London and Dubai, the company is preparing for even greater expansion, with potential branches in the US.

But instead of franchising or mass-producing its sweets, Hafiz Mustafa insists on making everything fresh in-house to maintain authenticity. We visited Istanbul to see how this 162-year-old confectioner is protecting tradition while competing in the modern global dessert market.


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SpaceX ran a Super Bowl ad — a first for Elon Musk’s business empire

  • SpaceX ran its first Super Bowl ad on Sunday, promoting its Starlink internet service.
  • It’s the first time any of Elon Musk’s companies have run an ad at the Super Bowl.
  • Tesla and SpaceX have avoided traditional advertising in the past, but that is beginning to change.

SpaceX has made its Super Bowl debut ahead of a potential record-breaking IPO.

The rocket company ran its first Super Bowl ad for its Starlink satellite internet on Sunday, the first time any of Elon Musk’s companies have run an ad at the showpiece event.

The 30-second spot features audio from a speech by legendary science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, set to footage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Starship rocket boosters returning to Earth.

It shows Starlink operating in a series of remote locations and touts the satellite internet service’s mission of “fast, affordable internet, available everywhere.”

The ad marks a departure for Musk’s companies, which have in the past shunned advertising in favor of using the billionaire’s outspoken public persona for publicity.

Tesla reportedly laid off its entire marketing team during widespread workforce cuts in 2024, while SpaceX has typically relied on eye-catching rocket tests, such as its Starship booster catch, to boost its public profile.

Both companies have started running advertising in recent years across a number of platforms, including Musk’s X, and Starlink has previously featured in Super Bowl ads run by partners such as T-Mobile.

SpaceX running its own stand-alone Super Bowl ad is a significant development, with 30-second ad slots costing between $8 million and $10 million on average this year, per broadcaster NBCUniversal.

It comes as SpaceX gears up for a public offering later this year that could value the rocket company at as much as $1.5 trillion.

Last week, Musk announced that SpaceX would merge with his AI startup xAI, in a move the world’s richest man said would help launch a network of solar-powered orbital data centers to train powerful AI models.

SpaceX’s recent success has been driven in large part by Starlink, which uses a constellation of more than 9,000 low-orbit satellites to provide wireless internet. In December, the company said Starlink has 9 million customers and is active in 155 countries.




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