Anthropic Adds Spreadsheets, Whiteboards and Data Tools to Claude

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Anthropic announced on November 10, 2026 that Claude is expanding into a broader workspace with spreadsheets, a whiteboard, and a data tool. Claude Sheets and Claude Whiteboards are in beta, while Claude Data, formerly called Dashboards, is available now and can pull from sources such as Snowflake and Salesforce. A meeting note-taker, Claude Meetings, has been announced but has no release date. The company is also broadly releasing interactive connectors that let users edit documents from apps like Confluence and Notion directly inside Claude, with partners including Adobe, Box, and HubSpot. Because the rollout is gradual, many users may not yet have access to these features.

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