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📰 AI NEWS

• 🚀 Claude Steps Into s Smart Move in AI-Powered Spreadsheets

• 🎙️ OpenAI Enhances GPT-5 to Better Support Mental Health Emergencies

• 📈 Odyssey-2 Redefines AI Video: Real-Time Worlds You Can Control

LATEST DEVELOPMENT

🚀 Claude Steps Into Excel: Smart Move in AI-Powered Spreadsheets

Anthropic has introduced Claude for Excel (beta) — a major step in bringing AI assistance directly into everyday spreadsheet work. The new integration adds a sidebar inside Excel where users can ask Claude to interpret data, fix errors, create templates, and even build new workbooks from scratch.

To strengthen its role in finance, Anthropic also launched seven new connectors linking Claude to platforms like Aiera (for earnings call transcripts), LSEG (for live market data), and Moody’s (for credit ratings). On top of that, new finance-focused Agent Skills enable Claude to prepare cash flow models, company analyses, and coverage reports with ease.

Currently available in research preview for Max, Enterprise, and Teams users, this launch places Claude alongside ChatGPT and Copilot in the race to make spreadsheets truly intelligent.

👉 Why it matters: By embedding AI directly within Excel — and connecting it to real financial data — Anthropic is making a strong push toward more reliable, insight-driven financial workflows.

🎙️ OpenAI Enhances GPT-5 to Better Support Mental Health Emergencies

OpenAI has introduced new safety and empathy updates in GPT-5 to better identify and respond to users experiencing mental health crises. These improvements were developed in collaboration with over 170 mental health professionals from around the world.

The upgraded model now shows a 91% compliance rate with clinical safety protocols, a notable improvement from GPT-4o’s 77%. GPT-5 has also been trained to respond with empathy while avoiding reinforcement of delusional thoughts and to maintain its safeguards consistently during long conversations.

OpenAI revealed that about 0.07% of its 800 million weekly active users exhibit signs of potential psychosis or mania — representing millions of high-risk interactions every week. These updates arrive amid growing legal and ethical scrutiny over how AI handles vulnerable users and mental health scenarios.

👉 Why it s latest improvements mark an important, though complex, step toward responsible AI care.

📈 Odyssey-2 Redefines AI Video: Real-Time Worlds You Can Control

Odyssey has unveiled Odyssey-2, a groundbreaking AI model that turns video generation into a real-time, interactive experience. Unlike traditional AI video tools that take minutes to render short clips, Odyssey-2 can stream footage instantly at 20 frames per second, creating an open-ended visual world that evolves as you type.

Each frame is generated dynamically — no pre-planning, no waiting — responding to the user’s text prompts in real time through an integrated chat interface. As users explore, Odyssey-2 continuously updates the scene, adjusting lighting, motion, and physics-based dynamics like waves, reflections, and movement to create natural-looking environments.

👉 Why it t just another AI video generator — it’s a step toward interactive, living media where viewers become participants. While the visuals may not yet match top-tier models like Veo or Sora, its real-time responsiveness and open-world potential could reshape how we experience digital storytelling.

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