You can use Slack, Asana, and Figma directly inside Claude now - here's how

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Claude can now interface with workplace apps within a chat.
• The chatbot could become the main digital interface for business.
• Other AI developers are also trying to expand their reach.

AI startup Anthropic announced Monday that Claude can now interface directly with popular workplace productivity apps like Figma, Asana, and Slack within a chat, negating the need for users to work between separate tabs.

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Arriving two weeks after the research preview launch of Claude Cowork -- a feature designed to deliver the agentic capabilities of Claude Code to non-coding tasks -- the news underscores what's become an increasingly clear objective from Anthropic: make Claude the primary interface of users' working lives.

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