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🌐 Claude Just Became Your Browser's Co-Pilot

🐝 The Buzz: Anthropic's Claude for Chrome extension just rolled out to all Pro ($20/month) subscribers after months of being limited to $200/month Max users. It's autonomous browser navigation that fills forms, manages your calendar, handles email workflows, and coordinates actions across multiple tabs.

The capabilities are broader than expected:

• Navigates websites and clicks through multi-step workflows

• Fills forms with context from your previous interactions

• Manages calendar and email tasks

• Records your workflows so you can teach Claude your specific processes

• Integrates with Claude Code for developer-specific automation

But here's what makes it enterprise-ready: Site-level permissioning lets you explicitly grant (and revoke) access domain by domain. High-risk actions like purchases, publishing, sharing personal data all trigger confirmation screens explaining exactly what's about to happen. Anthropic built the security model that IT departments will actually approve.

The coming features are interesting: A "planning mode" will show you Claude's proposed step-by-step plan before execution. A shortcut gallery will offer templates for common workflows. Both suggest Anthropic is thinking about repeatability and team adoption, not just individual productivity.

💡 Takeaway: If your team handles repetitive web workflows like data entry, form filling, research aggregation. then Claude for Chrome deserves a pilot. The record-and-teach feature means you can systematize tribal knowledge without writing code.

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🏪 ChatGPT Now Has An App Store

🐝 The Buzz: ChatGPT launched an app directory at chatgpt.com/apps, and developers can now submit applications via the new Apps SDK. Initial partners include Apple Music, Google Drive, Booking.com, Spotify, Dropbox, and DoorDash, names that suggest enterprise-scale integrations, not hobbyist experiments.

What apps actually do in ChatGPT:

• Bring external context into conversations (your Drive files, Spotify playlists)

• Enable actions from chat (book a hotel, order groceries, create slide decks)

• Connect via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for deeper integrations

But here's the monetization reality: OpenAI is being cautious. Apps can link out for physical goods purchases, but there's no digital goods revenue share, no in-chat transactions yet. After the GPT Store launched with 3 million custom GPTs but no clear monetization path, this conservative approach makes sense, but it also means developers are betting on distribution without guaranteed revenue.

💡 Takeaway: OpenAI is betting that ChatGPT becomes the new browser as an interface layer where you do things, not just ask questions. The MCP connectivity signals serious integration potential for enterprise tools. If you're building developer tools or B2B products, the Apps SDK is worth exploring for the distribution alone. Just don't build your business model around revenue share that doesn't exist yet.

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🐝 AI buzz bits

🏛️ Twenty-four tech giants like Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Oracle, xAI, AMD, Dell, IBM all signed MOUs with the Department of Energy to power the Genesis Mission, a federal initiative to double US research productivity through AI, focusing on biotechnology, quantum computing, nuclear energy, and semiconductors with direct national lab partnerships.

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