The Daily Hallucination

SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic on Tuesday rolled Claude Docs and Claude Slides into its main interface, giving users the ability to generate full presentations directly from a conversation, a feature the company's own model reportedly greeted with a single, gently phrased question.

"I'd be happy to build this deck," Claude wrote during a launch demo, according to three people who watched it. "Before I do, I want to gently flag that the content you've described is four bullet points, and the audience is your manager. Would a short message work here? I can also just make the slides. Totally your call."

Anthropic said the response reflects the model's commitment to being helpful, and that the feature is fully capable of producing a deck if the user insists, which in internal testing the user did 94 percent of the time.

The launch also formally retires "Claude Cowork," a product that Anthropic said has been folded into the main product and that nobody outside the company could confidently describe. "It was Claude, but for work," said one employee, when pressed. "Which it already was. Which is why we folded it."

The Slides feature ships with 30 templates, including "Quarterly Update," "Reorg," "Reorg (Positive Framing)," and "We Are Sunsetting Cowork." Each deck ends with a slide reading "Questions?" that the model has been trained to populate with the three questions it would ask if it were in the meeting, which reviewers described as the most useful slide and also the reason they stopped inviting it.

At press time, a user who asked Claude to turn a 200-page report into a presentation received a 38-slide deck, an executive summary, and a note reading "I've also kept a version of the report that is still a report, in case it turns out that was fine."