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Small businesses employ nearly half the American workforce, but most of the AI conversation skips right past them. Here are a few things we heard from small business owners at our SMB tour stop in Baton Rouge: “More time for me means faster growth and faster opportunities to make a real impact. It means showing up bigger for the people I love and serve, and the next generation of business owners. It also means more freedom, more flexibility, more travel, and more time to do the things I love.” - Lakeisha Robicheaux, CEO, Chief of Minds “I learned how powerful Claude Cowork is for my small business to maximize the tools I already use. My advice for other owners: jump right in.” - John Roberts, CEO + Co-Founder, Attract Accounting Advisors “Seeing women and men from all kinds of careers come together for this workshop, and watching Baton Rouge embrace AI and move forward with it, was amazing“ - Kyle Hilliard, CEO + Co-Founder, Hilliard House & Holdings LLC

This July, 11 cities are hosting Claude Conversations where communities will discuss hard questions around AI. Two weeks after gathering, each city will run a Claude Impact Lab: a full-day hackathon where the community builds its own local answer. The first wave of Claude Conversations will focus on three questions: • What does AI mean for my job? • What is AI doing to me, my kids, my community? • Who decides the rules? Find your city: luma.com/claudecommunity

Each Claude model is built for a different kind of work. Use this as a guide for when to pick each one. Fable
 • Best for long-horizon tasks with many connected steps, dense source material, and building something from a rough idea. Opus
 • Best for complex research, long technical documents, and methodology critique. Sonnet
 • Best for writing, coding, analysis, and multi-step work. Haiku
 • Best for quick lookups, simple summaries, and pulling specific information from text. If you're not sure which model to pick, start with Sonnet.

We're introducing Claude for Teachers: free access to premium Claude capabilities for verified K-12 educators in the US, with a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states. Ask for a lesson plan, and Claude starts from your state standards and high-quality curricula by connecting through Learning Commons. It then drafts a plan and student-facing materials you can revise and take into class. Claude for Teachers is built for K-12 privacy. We never train our models on your conversations, and student information is protected by a data processing agreement written to comply with FERPA. Read more about how Claude for Teachers works: https://lnkd.in/eHdK8rw9

Eli Feldman opened his first restaurant five months before a pandemic. Three locations later, he's still chasing the same idea: food worth eating, served by people who earn enough to make it a career. Here's how Shy Bird uses Claude to make it work: http://Claude.com/shybird

Two new flagship models, Claude on every major desktop OS, and a handful of features designed to make Claude easier to work with across teams and devices. June, in review: Claude Fable 5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Tag Claude Design updates Claude Code artifacts Claude Desktop for Linux Cowork on web and mobile Claude Science Chat and Cowork, together A new way to reflect with Claude

During our recent Impact Lab in Rio, around 100 people spent a day building solutions to real problems posed by the city, using Claude and municipal data.