Anthropic is expanding its directory of connected services for Claude AI chatbots. The platform can now link your accounts with AllTrails, Audible, Booking.com, Instacart, Intuit Credit Karma, Intuit TurboTax, Resy, Spotify, StubHub, Taskrabbit, Thumbtack, TripAdvisor, Uber, Uber Eats, and Viator. Additional services will be added in the future.
More and more AI companies are looking to increase integration with third parties to make their services as useful as possible. The advantage of connecting multiple apps means that chatbots could theoretically perform more complex tasks on your behalf. This expansion shifts its capabilities from the professional and educational environments that Anthropic’s connectors have focused on over the past year to the personal. So, for example, Claude can now plan his hike in AllTrails and create a Spotify playlist that lasts for the duration of the trek.
Anthropic said it is also restructuring the way the app is presented so that it suggests the right service for the task you want to perform. The app should appear dynamically within Claude’s conversation, without requiring the user to swipe between programs. As with most AI actions, Claude is supposed to ask the user before actually performing an action, such as securing a reservation or making a purchase.
