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🤖 Claude Can Now Create Files

🤖 Claude Can Now Create Files

PLUS: Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event

Cliff Worley
September 15, 2025

Happy Monday!

This week brought some exciting news: Claude can now create and edit files! Whether you’ve been dreaming of making a PowerPoint with Claude or having it handle an Excel file, now it’s all possible. This is a major leap forward in AI capabilities. And there’s more: VO3 has joined the fun by being able to create vertical videos. It’s hard to keep up with all these changes, but it’s clear that the AI scene is buzzing with activity! Oh, and I’ve got a fresh new prompt for you to try out this week!

PROMPT: I want to achieve [insert task]. Write the best possible prompt I should give you to get a 10/10 result. Then use that optimized prompt to complete the task.

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Enjoy!

In Today’s Edition:

🤯 Claude can now create and edit files
🛠️ 7 new AI tools that will increase your productivity
😮 Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event
🤖 AI tool that automates email drafting, reply suggestions, and organization

Read time: 4 minutes

🎨 AI ART

Me and my boy ChatGPT

📰 AI INDUSTRY NEWS

🛠 NEW AI TOOLS

✉️ Serif — AI tool that automates email drafting, reply suggestions, and organization.

🤖 Monica — All-in-one AI assistant: chat, writing, and translation

🎓 Oboe — Personalized course generator via single-prompt learning.

📝 YouMind — AI-creation studio to learn, write & organise ideas.

🔍 ZeroGPT — Tool to detect AI-generated text/plagiarism.

🛠️ Latitude — Open-source platform to build AI agents via natural language.

🗣️ Vidvoi — AI voiceover & script tool for videos.

🎨View our database of marketing tools mentioned all past newsletters:

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📹 TIKTOK OF THE WEEK

Claude Can Create Powerpoint, Excel, and PDF Files🤯

@brandnat
INSANE! @Claude can now create and edit powerpoint, excel, pdf AND fill out forms ?!? #claude #artificialintelligence #ai #aiforbusiness #brandnat

🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK

So far all the signs appear to be that people who are good at their field or craft are able to take advantage of AI the most.
Those who can write the precise specs for a coding agent to go off and do work, or craft the clearest prompts for various knowledge worker tasks, are
— Aaron Levie (@levie)
5:02 AM • Sep 8, 2025

Story of every CEO right now 😂
— AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success)
6:37 PM • Sep 3, 2025

i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human
🧵 what led up to this breaking point
— andrew gao (@itsandrewgao)
12:06 AM • Sep 6, 2025

Claude's new ability to work with Excel files is the best I have seen so far
I have given it existing spreadsheets to work with and asked it to create new ones. Good use of formatting, formulas, etc.
It created all of this, including 406 formulas, from one prompt (& its solid).
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
2:50 AM • Sep 10, 2025

☕️ THE EXTRAS

One year ago today, I wrote OpenAI Unveils o1, A Model That Can Fact-Check Itself
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn

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That’s it for this time! See you next week.

— Cliff Worley