Claude

American

[klawd, klohd] / klɔd, kloʊd /

noun

Albert, 1899–1983, U.S. biologist, born in Belgium: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1974.
Also Claud. a male given name: from a Roman family name meaning “lame.”

Claude British

/ klɔːd, klod /

noun

Albert. 1898–1983, US cell biologist, born in Belgium: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1974) for work on microsomes and mitochondria

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Dallas Fed researchers made their measures with a database of jobs and their associated tasks, and records of the tasks that Anthropic’s Claude can perform.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

The app that people use to access the Muse AI agent topped Apple’s charts for free productivity apps, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s a mass-marketed, mobile-friendly version of the machine-as-person work that power users are already doing with Claude and ChatGPT on computers.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Last week, Anthropic rolled out a suite of Claude workflow tools that hook up to platforms run by the likes of Schwab and Vanguard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Anyone would, because the Herdmans—Ralph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie, and Gladys—were the worst kids in the history of the world.

From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson

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