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Anthropic butts in to small business, promises help with payroll and other core tasks

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But Pro or Max biz users should know that the company may train its AI on your data

Anthropic is pushing into the small business space with a set of new plug-and-play tools designed for those without a tech team budget, but be warned: Depending on your Anthropic subscription tier, some business data might get sucked up to train Claude.

Anthropic announced Claude for Small Business (CSB) on Wednesday, describing the new plugin as a way for SMB owners without AI expertise to automate the basic business tasks they’re saddled with, like payroll, chasing payments, and launching campaigns, that are usually the purview of different departments at the enterprise level.

Installation is designed to be dead simple, with Pro, Max, and Teams plan users able to add it as a plugin from the Cowork space in the Claude Desktop app. Skills can then be run using natural...

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