Anthropic Prepares Active Assistant Orbit: Integrating Six Major Tools Including Gmail, Slack, and GitHub

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According to monitoring by Beating, community users have discovered a new feature called Orbit in Anthropic’s latest web and mobile builds. From the code descriptions, Orbit appears to be an active briefing and insights system that spans Claude and Claude Code, utilizing an opt-in mechanism that can sense the user’s time zone and automatically generate personalized briefings from connected work tools. The currently identified connectors cover six major applications: Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Calendar, Drive, and Figma. Orbit is currently only available as a toggle in the settings panel, representing a typical gray stage before formal release. Anthropic’s developer conference, Code with Claude, will take place on May 6 in San Francisco, and it remains uncertain whether Orbit will be officially unveiled at the event. Last September, OpenAI launched a similar active asynchronous assistant, ChatGPT Pulse, and Google Gemini and Perplexity are also preparing similar features, making active briefings a standard capability for AI assistants. Orbit’s differentiation lies in its explicit integration with GitHub and Figma, targeting developers and designers rather than the general office crowd.

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