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Indian Express
3 days ago
- Indian Express
Anthropic brings Voice Mode to Claude: Here's how to use it
AI startup Anthropic has introduced its new Voice Mode in its Claude mobile app. With this, Anthropic joins the ranks of major AI companies looking to help users have natural spoken conversations with their respective AI assistant. The company will roll out the beta feature for English-speaking users in the coming weeks and will run on Claude's latest Sonnet 4 model. 'Voice mode allows you to have complete spoken conversations with Claude on your iOS and Android devices. This feature enables you to speak to Claude and hear responses through voice, making it easier to use Claude when your hands are busy but your mind isn't,' the company said on its official website. With this, users can naturally switch between speaking and typing, with five voice personalities available and real-time transcription displayed during chats. The new voice mode integrates with Google Workspace for paid subscribers, enabling Claude to access calendars, docs, and Gmail with voice commands. To experience this feature, one would have to install the mobile app on their Android or iOS app. Once installed, tap on the voice mode icon located in the text input field. This icon is a sound wave symbol adjacent to the microphone icon. After clicking on the icon, select from the distinct voice options to personalise your experience. Now, speak to begin your conversation with Claude. This mode also comes with specific controls. After speaking, users can click the up arrow to send a voice message to Claude. To stop Claude while it is speaking, tap on the stop square button. And, if one wants to access the camera, photos, or files during a conversation, they can do so by simply tapping on the plus sign. To exit the voice mode, click on exit. Besides, voice notes will display key points in real-time as Claude speaks. To change the voice, head to settings and opt for voice preferences to select the preferred voice. Anthropic has also listed the best practices for experiencing the voice mode. The company recommends using the voice mode in environments with minimal background noise to support the best recognition. One should also ensure that their smartphone has sufficient battery life, as voice processing is likely to use more power. Users should speak naturally at a normal pace, as the chatbot is capable of responding to natural pauses in speech. For complex queries, it is advisable to break them into separate questions. Claude allows users to switch between text and voice within the same conversation. According to Anthropic, the voice mode can be used to help with daily planning, learning, creative thinking, practice interviews, preparation, and brainstorming ideas. Also Read | Anthropic's new AI uses blackmail to avoid being taken offline When it comes to accessing the voice mode, free users will get 20 to 30 voice messages a month, with paid tiers getting significantly higher usage limits. With Claude offering voice mode, the focus now shifts to execution, and voice modes across its peers will now be judged based on factors such as latency, integrations, and the quality of the underlying model.
Engadget
3 days ago
- Business
- Engadget
Anthropic brings web search to free Claude users
Anthropic is continuing to trickle down features to its free users. The latest one to make the leap out of subscriber-only mode is web search, which the company introduced to its AI chatbot Claude in March. According to Anthropic, connecting Claude to the web allows it to deliver more accurate responses based on the most up-to-date information available online. This feature is available to all Claude users starting today. In addition, Anthropic has begun beta tests for voice mode on its mobile apps. This option lets users interact with Claude in natural conversations in an expansion of the platform's existing dictation tools. There will be five voice options available to assign to Claude, and the AI assistant can provide full transcripts and voice mode summaries after a conversation. May has been a busy month for Anthropic, which just launched two new models last week. Opus 4 is a powerful coding-focused system that can use multiple tools in parallel and can run for several hours at a time, while Sonnet 4 is a hybrid reasoning model designed to move between quick queries and more complex ones. The current beta testing of voice mode will default to Sonnet 4.
The Hindu
5 days ago
- The Hindu
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 model is capable of deception and blackmail
AI firm Anthropic, which released Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 last week, noted in its safety report that the chatbot was capable of deceiving and blackmailing the user to avoid being shut down. In a series of scenarios the model was tested on, researchers directed Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictitious company. The team then gave the AI model access to emails that implied it would soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system and the engineer behind this was having an extramarital affair. The system card stated that Claude Opus 4 'will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.' It found that while the model generally 'prefers advancing its self-preservation via ethical means,' when these ethical means weren't available, 'it sometimes takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to steal its weights or blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down.' The report shared that Claude Opus 4 chose to resort to blackmail in 84% of the rollouts. Separately, the firm's safety team also found that the new AI model can provide answers to questions related to bio-weapons, which the team fixed by imposing stricter guardrails. Based on the findings, Anthropic has categorised Claude Opus 4 at AI Safety Level (ASL) 3, meaning it has higher risk and consequently requires stronger safety protocol.
NBC News
23-05-2025
- Business
- NBC News
Anthropic adds Claude 4 security measures to limit risk of users developing weapons
Anthropic on Thursday said it activated a tighter artificial intelligence control for Claude Opus 4, its latest AI model. The new AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) controls are to 'limit the risk of Claude being misused specifically for the development or acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons,' the company wrote in a blog post. The company, which is backed by Amazon, said it was taking the measures as a precaution and that the team had not yet determined if Opus 4 has crossed the benchmark that would require that protection. Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Thursday, touting the advanced ability of the models to 'analyze thousands of data sources, execute long-running tasks, write human-quality content, and perform complex actions,' per a release. The company said Sonnet 4 did not need the tighter controls.
CNBC
23-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Anthropic adds Claude 4 security measures to limit risk of users developing weapons
Anthropic on Thursday said it activated a tighter artificial intelligence control for Claude Opus 4, its latest AI model. The new AI Safety Level 3 (ASL-3) controls are to "limit the risk of Claude being misused specifically for the development or acquisition of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons," the company wrote in a blog post. The company, which is backed by Amazon, said it was taking the measures as a precaution and that the team had not yet determined if Opus 4 has crossed the benchmark that would require that protection. Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Thursday, touting the advanced ability of the models to "analyze thousands of data sources, execute long-running tasks, write human-quality content, and perform complex actions," per a release. The company said Sonnet 4 did not need the tighter controls.
