Anthropic is expanding the application landscape of Claude Cowork, extending the reach of artificial intelligence (AI) into core business areas such as investment banking and human resources (HR). Following a recent series of new feature releases that shook the market, Anthropic seems to be proving that it is not a disruptor, but a reliable partner, with this round of AI tool releases boosting the stock prices of its partners.
On Tuesday, Eastern Time on the 24th, Anthropic launched 10 new AI plugin tools for the Claude Cowork agent during a live event, covering multiple vertical scenarios including investment banking, wealth management, HR, private equity (PE), and engineering design. The aim is to automate workflows in these professional fields and deeply integrate AI agents with tools in investment banking and human resources.
The partners disclosed by Anthropic this time include financial data providers FactSet, LSEG, Slack under Salesforce, DocuSign, and Thomson Reuters. PwC US also announced a partnership with Anthropic for enterprise-level AI plugins.
Scott White, head of Anthropic's enterprise products, told the media that Claude's goal is to deliver better outcomes for clients rather than replace them. He said, &#34;This is not a product that tries to take over every workflow. What we provide is infrastructure and intelligence so that partners and clients can integrate their business knowledge, professional experience, trust relationships, and customer resources.&#34;
During the Anthropic launch event, several partner stocks rose. On Tuesday morning, FactSet was up nearly 7.5%, DocuSign was up over 7%, LegalZoom was up more than 6%, and Thomson Reuters, which had plummeted earlier this month due to news of Anthropic developing legal services, saw its stock rise by more than 14% at one point, marking the largest intraday gain since October 2008.
By the close, Thomson Reuters was up 11.4%, FactSet was up 5.9%, and DocuSign and LegalZoom were both up about 2.6%.
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After Kate Jensen, head of Anthropic's Americas region, pointed out that Spotify and Salesforce are using Claude to streamline processes, Spotify's stock briefly turned positive, with an increase of up to 3%, while Salesforce's stock increase expanded to nearly 5.9%. Spotify closed down nearly 0.5%, while Salesforce closed up over 4%.
Due to general market concerns about the content released by Anthropic, the three major U.S. stock indices closed down at least about 1%, with the iShares software industry ETF IGV down nearly 5%. During the Anthropic launch event on Tuesday, this ETF was up nearly 2.9% at one point, closing up 1.9%, but it has seen a cumulative decline of nearly 26% since 2026
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<h2>Claude Cowork Moves from Research Phase to Enterprise-Level Product, Enterprise Clients Can Customize Plugins</h2>
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork last month as a research initiative, which triggered significant fluctuations in software stocks. Tuesday's release marks the official transition of the product to an enterprise-level offering.
The latest AI plugins released by Anthropic cover multiple vertical industries such as HR, investment banking, and design, and allow enterprise clients to customize configurations based on their organizational standards.
Enterprise clients can now integrate Claude Cowork with commonly used business tools like Google Drive, Gmail, DocuSign, FactSet, WordPress, and LegalZoom, and deploy customizable plugins in areas such as financial analysis, stock research, private equity, wealth management, engineering, and human resources, directly encoding proprietary knowledge and workflows into the plugins. Users can also facilitate bidirectional transfer of files and data between Microsoft tools like PowerPoint and Excel and Cowork.
Scott White, who is responsible for the Claude AI model product work at Anthropic, stated that the company's goal is to bridge the gap between employees using AI to handle work queries and using professional tools to perform specific tasks. This positioning means that Claude Cowork is not only to act as an information assistant but also to be deeply embedded in the actual workflows of enterprises.
Kate Jensen, head of Anthropic's Americas region, said, &#34;We have truly introduced the contextual information and management controls that enterprises have always valued, thereby creating a user experience that is fundamentally different from before.&#34; She also compared Claude Cowork to Claude Code, stating, &#34;Engineers consider Claude Code an indispensable tool. We hope every knowledge worker can have the same feeling about Cowork.&#34;
Currently, Anthropic has over 300,000 enterprise clients, with enterprise business accounting for about 80% of total revenue, primarily leveraging its models to enhance work efficiency, particularly in the field of computer programming, where it has established a leading position with its AI programming assistant Claude Code. The company recently completed a new round of financing, reaching a valuation of $380 billion.
<h2>Comprehensive Partner Ecosystem Launched, Focus on Finance and Professional Services</h2>
In this release, the financial sector is a core focus of Anthropic's new customizable plugins, including dedicated plugins for financial analysis, stock research, private equity, and wealth management.
Thomson Reuters is one of the standout beneficiaries of this release. The company announced that its AI tool CoCounsel for legal and business professionals has surpassed 1 million professional users, while also confirming deep collaboration with Anthropic's Claude model. Additionally, its AI architecture integrates OpenAI's GPT and Google's Gemini
RBC Wealth Management is also listed as one of the corporate clients using Anthropic AI agents.
PwC US issued a statement saying it has reached an agreement with Anthropic to accelerate the deployment of enterprise-level AI plugins in &#34;highly regulated&#34; industries, with the first areas of focus covering finance, healthcare, and life sciences. PwC will assist its clients in integrating Claude, including the Claude developer platform, Claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code.
In addition, pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, as a corporate client of Anthropic, has customized the Claude tool for the highly specialized work scenario of clinical research reports. These reports can typically be up to 300 pages long, and completing one used to take several months, with employees averaging about two per year; after introducing the customized Claude platform, the process that originally took 10 weeks has been compressed to 10 minutes.
<h2>Anthropic Responds to Market Turbulence: AI is a Growth Engine, Not a Replacement Threat</h2>
Anthropic's release event comes at a highly sensitive point in the market. Previously, Anthropic quietly launched a Claude Cowork plugin aimed at automating legal work, leading to a loss of approximately $830 billion in global software market value over six trading days; subsequently, Anthropic released a new version of its Opus model focused on financial research, which triggered a collective decline in financial services stocks.
Last Friday, Anthropic launched the code security scanning tool Claude Code Security, which also triggered a massive sell-off in the cybersecurity sector that continued from last Friday into this Monday.
The chain reaction in the capital markets caused by Anthropic's recent series of product launches reflects growing investor concerns about the disruptive effects of AI. The question of which companies and services will ultimately be replaced by AI remains unresolved.
In response, Scott White, head of corporate products at Anthropic, stated that linking market performance directly to a single product release is &#34;somewhat of an over-interpretation or overreaction,&#34; and emphasized that the company's AI models are helping corporate clients achieve growth, rather than simply replacing existing businesses.
Peter McCrory, head of economics at Anthropic, stated during a live broadcast that no large-scale replacement phenomenon has been observed in the labor market so far, but acknowledged that the impact of AI on different positions will show differentiation.
McCrory said, &#34;Experienced, high-skilled workers may benefit more from AI,&#34; and added, &#34;I do worry about positions that are purely execution-based,&#34; pointing out that the work done by data entry clerks and technical document writers is the type of task that Claude &#34;can reliably handle.&#34;
Mizuho analysts noted in a recent research report that there was a clear &#34;panic sentiment&#34; in the market before Anthropic's release event, which may be the fundamental reason for the pullback in US stocks on Monday. The report stated:
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&#34;No one is willing to bet on the direction before another AI product launch. Every piece of news from Anthropic is interpreted by the market as an 'incremental competitive threat' to existing software companies, regardless of whether this interpretation is fair. As a result, investors choose to stand on the sidelines rather than trying to game it in advance. Selling first and asking questions later is much easier than being trapped by another round of headline-driven declines.&#34;
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JP Morgan analyst Brian Essex also wrote in a report on Monday, &#34;Disproving a negative proposition (proving that these companies will not be disrupted) remains highly challenging, which supports the 'sell first and ask questions later' market environment we have observed recently.&#34;
<h2>Anthropic Accelerates Corporate Expansion, Competing for High-Value Market Position</h2>
Anthropic's intensive product launch pace this year reflects its strategic intent to accelerate expansion in the enterprise market. The company, along with its competitor OpenAI, has invested significant resources over the past year into AI applications in specialized fields such as financial services and healthcare, with the core drive being to attract more enterprise clients and support their high valuations.
Anthropic currently faces competitive pressure from multiple sources, including Google, OpenAI, and Musk's xAI. Both Google and Amazon are investors in Anthropic. The company has stated that it has not yet made a decision regarding an IPO.
In terms of product layout, Anthropic is leveraging the existing momentum of Claude Code to move forward. Jensen stated that Claude Code has achieved large-scale adoption in numerous enterprises over the past year, which is an important foundation for Anthropic to build its reputation in the enterprise sector. The comprehensive enterprise transformation of Claude Cowork aims to replicate this successful path across a broader range of knowledge work scenarios, extending from programming to high-barrier fields such as finance, law, and healthcare

Anthropic released multiple AI plugins for the Claude Cowork intelligent agent, allowing enterprise clients to integrate the agent with commonly used business tools such as Gmail, DocuSign, FactSet, WordPress, and LegalZoom, and to deploy customizable plugins in areas such as financial analysis, stock research, private equity, wealth management, engineering, and HR. PwC has reached an agreement with Anthropic to accelerate the deployment of enterprise AI plugins in highly regulated industries. Partners like FactSet saw their stock prices surge, with Thomson Reuters rising by as much as 14%. Anthropic executives stated that the recent stock price decline may be somewhat overreacted or misinterpreted, emphasizing that the company's AI models help businesses achieve growth rather than replace existing operations; they have not found evidence of AI massively replacing jobs, acknowledging that the impact of AI will vary across different positions, with concerns about roles focused on execution

- Anthropic has expanded its AI tool, Claude Cowork, into critical business sectors like investment banking and HR, aiming to improve workflows with ten new plugins.  
- The release involved partnerships with major firms including FactSet and Salesforce, contributing to a rise in partner stocks, as investors respond to the potential for AI-driven efficiency.  
- Despite market concerns regarding AI's impact on employment, Anthropic maintains that its technology is designed to enhance productivity rather than replace existing jobs.

Don't disrupt, cooperate! Anthropic upgrades enterprise-level AI tools to expand into investment banking, HR, and other scenarios