Anthropic introduces Claude for small businesses: integration into established business tools with 15 workflows and 15 skills for finance, operations, and marketing, aiming to promote AI adoption among SMEs with limited staff resources.
Claude Cowork and Claude Code share the same agent loop but differ in security risk: Cowork offers more features with a larger attack surface, while Code runs in an OS sandbox. Enterprises must assess these differences when deploying.
Anthropic releases ten agent templates for financial services that drastically accelerate complex processes, integrating with Microsoft 365 and providing access to existing data sources via connectors and MCP apps.
Users can now use GPT-5, Gemini, open-source models via OpenRouter, local models, or enterprise gateways as backends for Claude Cowork and Code in Claude Desktop.
Claude Cowork and Code now support any LLMs such as GPT-5, Gemini, local models, or enterprise gateways, without Anthropic making a formal announcement.
