Anthropic launches Claude Meetings for real-time participation in Google Meet calls

Nov 10, 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings in November 2026, letting its AI join live Google Meet calls to take notes and act in connected apps, available on Team and Enterprise plans. The release also includes Whiteboards in beta, Sheets for spreadsheet creation, and Claude Data (formerly Claude Dashboards), which queries sources like Amazon Redshift. Claude Data becomes on by default for Enterprise plans November 19, 2026.

Claude Meetings feature

▪Claude Meetings is available for Anthropic's Team and Enterprise plans
▪Claude Meetings does not work for organizations with zero data retention (ZDR), HIPAA-ready configuration, or customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)
▪Claude Meetings will not join a call with outside guests unless an admin allows it, and leaves if an outside guest joins
▪Anthropic said Claude Meetings is on by default for Team plans, but Enterprise admins can choose who gets access to it
▪Claude Meetings allows users to add Claude to a Google Meet call to take notes and update documents the team is working on during the conversation

Whiteboards beta feature

▪Claude's Whiteboards feature can group crowdsourced notes into themes and action items
▪For Anthropic Enterprise plans, the Whiteboards feature is off by default but can be adjusted in Artifacts settings
▪Anthropic said Claude's Whiteboards output can be exported to a deck, document, or other tools for next steps
▪Anthropic released a Whiteboards feature in beta as part of its November 2026 product launch
▪Anthropic said Claude's Whiteboards feature can turn a verbal plan into a board with a timeline, owners, and dates for real-time team collaboration

Claude Sheets feature

▪Anthropic said Claude Sheets files can be exported to .xlsx or CSV format for use in Excel
▪Claude's Sheets feature allows users to create shareable spreadsheets from a prompt and edit inside cells with trackable changes
▪Anthropic said Claude Sheets supports continued work in partner tools including Airtable, Asana, monday.com, and Smartsheet
▪For Anthropic Enterprise plans, the Whiteboards feature is off by default but can be adjusted in Artifacts settings

Claude Data tool

▪Anthropic said Claude Data's live sharing feature allows colleagues to see up-to-date numbers in a shared dashboard without access to the underlying data connectors
▪Claude Dashboards, which launched in beta the month prior to November 2026, was renamed Claude Data
▪Claude Data can query company data from large external services such as Amazon Redshift and ClickHouse
▪For Anthropic Enterprise plans, Claude Data will be on by default starting November 19, 2026
▪Claude Data, formerly known as Claude Dashboards, includes tracked changes and faster loading through caching

Anthropic enterprise strategy

▪Anthropic has maintained a lead over OpenAI by focusing on enterprise clients first, while OpenAI has prioritized consumer products
▪Anthropic has designed Claude as the starting point for a range of workplace deliverables, rather than maintaining distinct siloed applications

AI workplace software competition

▪Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI alleging OpenAI infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems
▪In September 2026, OpenAI released ChatGPT Space at its Dev Day, which houses document and slide creation tools reminiscent of Google Workspace