Claude adds live dashboards and animations you can edit

Two betas, three tools leave beta

Anthropic’s launch puts Dashboards on paid plans and Motion on Team and Enterprise. Docs, Slides and Design leave beta for every plan, including Free. For Enterprise organisations, the two new betas remain off until an owner enables them.

A number you can trace back to its query

The Dashboards guide describes a connection to a data warehouse or an app such as Salesforce. Claude writes the SQL—the instruction that asks the database for particular records—and shows it beside each chart, along with the last-refresh time. A visible query helps explain a number; it does not establish that the query counted the right thing.

Sharing is less straightforward than the launch’s broad wording suggests. Artifacts start private, and Team and Enterprise work stays inside the organisation by default. The sharing guide still excludes connected-app artifacts from public “anyone with the link” sharing and says viewers use their own data connections. The announcement does not explain how that restriction applies to the new dashboards.

Animation you can edit, then take further

Motion writes code to animate text, charts, shapes and images. Its help page describes changing an individual word, number or timing in the editor or through conversation, then exporting an MP4. It does not generate filmed-looking people or scenes.

Runway’s launch-partner announcement describes the next step: take the animation into Runway to add generated footage, images or sound and assemble a longer piece. That is a separate finishing stage. Anthropic lists Canva and Captions as coming soon, rather than available destinations.

Existing Design users have a deadline

The standalone Design site is due to close on 14 December 2026. The migration guide says design systems can move now and existing projects keep working until closure. Chats and comments do not carry over, and public links to standalone projects stop working when it closes. Moving a design system is not the same as preserving all of its surrounding conversation.