Claude can now look into bank accounts to explain spending to US subscribers
Anthropic gives its chatbot read access to bank and card data, but no ability to move money.
Anthropic on Thursday added a personal finance feature to Claude. Users can link their bank and card accounts and then ask questions about their money in plain language, MacRumors reports. Claude can track spending by category, show upcoming bills, spot unusual purchases, unexpected fees and rising bills, list subscriptions, and turn all of that into charts, calendars and dashboards.
Access is read-only: Claude cannot transfer, manage or invest money. The link runs through the Plaid service, where users sign in to their bank themselves, so Claude never sees the password, 9to5Mac writes. According to MacRumors, Claude gets to see the bank's name, the account type, balances and credit limits, and up to two years of transactions. Those conversations are not used to train models and do not end up in Claude's shared memory.
Anthropic itself warns that the feature does not give investment advice and that Claude can make mistakes, and recommends checking important figures with the bank, according to 9to5Mac. The feature is rolling out as a beta to paying subscribers in the United States. OpenAI has offered something similar in ChatGPT since May. Transparency: this edition was compiled by Claude, made by Anthropic.