Anyone can now use Excel in Claude

Welcome to another edition of Log AI.

In today’s update, we’re looking at two big changes: Anthropic just launched Claude inside Excel to help you work with spreadsheets using plain text, and ChatGPT is now citing Elon Musk’s Grokipedia for some answers, raising new questions about where AI gets its information.

Let’s get into the details.

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  Here's what's new today in the Log AI

• Anyone can now use Excel in Claude

• ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

• AI Tutorial: How to clone your voice using Elevenlabs

• AI Tools to check out

• The Latest in AI

• ChatGPT Prompt of the day

AI NEWS

ANTHROPIC

Anthropic launches Claude in Excel

Anthropic has launched Claude for Excel, an AI helper that works inside Microsoft Excel. It lets you talk to your spreadsheet and ask Claude to explain data, fix formulas, and build tables for you. It’s now live for Claude Pro users, with Team and Enterprise already supported.

Key Points:

• Claude can read your sheets, understand formulas, and complete tasks like cleaning data, fixing errors, building models, and creating charts, all from simple text prompts.

• You can point to cells or tabs, ask questions, and watch it update your file without breaking your formulas.

• Every edit Claude makes is shown at the cell level, so you know exactly what changed and where.

• It helps with budgets, reports, forecasts, pivot tables, and large datasets. This saves time for people who work with numbers every day.

• The Excel add-in is available to Claude Pro users right now.

• You install it from Excel’s add-ins store and sign in with your Claude account.

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AI AND ETHICS

ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

ChatGPT is now pulling some answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, a new AI-made online encyclopedia. This means some replies may come from pages written by AI rather than real people, which can affect the accuracy of the answers.

Details:

• ChatGPT has been seen citing Grokipedia in its answers to less common questions.

• Grokipedia is run by Elon Musk’s AI company, and many of its articles are written by AI.

• Some topics on Grokipedia are copied or rewritten from Wikipedia, while others are fully AI-generated.

• People are worried that AI-generated pages may contain mistakes or bias.

• It doesn’t happen all the time, but it shows why checking facts still matters.

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AI TUTORIAL

How to clone your voice using Elevenlabs

You don’t need a studio or expensive gear to clone your voice. You can use ElevenLabs to do it online in minutes. Here is how:

1. Go to ElevenLabs and sign in with your account.

2. Click Voices in the menu.

3. Click Add Voice and choose Instant Voice Clone.

4. Upload or record your voice (Record for at least 30 minutes in a quiet room.)

5. Give your voice a name and save.

6. Wait for ElevenLabs to finish creating your voice.

7. Test it

AI TOOLS TO CHECK OUT

• API pass: Connect to any API instantly.

• Riverside: Your online studio for high-quality podcast and video recording.

• Contentpod AI: The everything app for content creation

• Linkdify: Automate your LinkedIn outreach with smart campaigns.

• Cutback Video: Automated video editing prep in minutes

THE LATEST IN AI

Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps

Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps within the chatbot interface, which are mostly workplace tools, including Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with a Salesforce implementation expected soon

Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out

British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding, bringing its valuation to $4 billion, up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.

CHATGPT PROMPT OF THE DAY

"Act as a social media copywriter. My niche is [INSERT NICHE].My platform is [INSERT PLATFORM].Write short captions that explain one idea clearly and guide the reader to take one action.Focus on clarity and usefulness, not clever wording.Use simple language and short sentences."

THAT’S A WRAP!