Week of October 12 | What's New

Release notes 3

What University IT changed in Stanford's AI services this week.

Sat, Oct 10
Claude Science enabled in Claude for Education (opens in a new tab)

Claude Science is a desktop app for scientific research and analysis, including work with data and code. Anthropic's setup guide lists the supported operating systems and how to get started.
Sat, Oct 10
Remote Control enabled for Claude Code (opens in a new tab)

You can continue a local Claude Code session from your phone or a web browser, as long as the computer running the session stays on. Anthropic's guidance explains how the feature works.
Sat, Oct 10
Morning Consult connector enabled for Claude (opens in a new tab)

If you have access to Morning Consult Intelligence, you can use the connector to ask Claude questions about its consumer research data feeds. Find it on Stanford's available connectors page.

What the vendors and the wider AI world announced.

Want Employees to Embrace AI? Stop Selling It as a Productivity Tool (opens in a new tab)

Stanford research at three firms: people use AI more when it is framed as making work more interesting, not faster; paralegals used one tool 58 percent more.

StanfordWed, Oct 7
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 (opens in a new tab)

Anthropic's fastest, lowest-cost model, built for high-volume work such as summaries and classification; Anthropic lists it for Enterprise plans in Claude.

AnthropicWed, Oct 7
Anthropic's 2026 Usage Policy update (opens in a new tab)

New rules for using Claude, Stanford's included, from November 12: clearer limits on deception, weapons and surveillance; legitimate research is still allowed.

AnthropicThu, Oct 8
A University's Research on Its Own AI Tool Raised More Questions Than Answers (opens in a new tab)

Maryland's randomized trial of a course AI tutor: about 15 percent of students used it, most asked for answers, and final grades dipped slightly.

insidehighered.comWed, Oct 7
Technology Officers Navigating 'Age of Perpetual Change' (opens in a new tab)

The 2027 EDUCAUSE Top 10 puts finding where AI adds real value at No. 1 for campus technology leaders, the first time an AI issue has led the list.

insidehighered.comMon, Oct 5

Live Technology Training classes this week and next.

Intro to Claude: Getting Things Done with Anthropic AI (opens in a new tab)

Wednesday Oct 14, 1 to 4 pm, live online, $325: getting started with Claude, including extended thinking, research and web search; more dates to December.

StanfordSession on Wed, Oct 14
Documents to Video in Minutes with Gemini Notebook (opens in a new tab)

Wednesday Oct 14, 9 to 10:30 am, live online, $150: turn the documents you upload into a narrated video overview with Gemini Notebook.

StanfordSession on Wed, Oct 14
Transform Excel Data with Claude AI For Actionable Insights (opens in a new tab)

Wednesday Oct 14, 1 to 4 pm, live online, $325: use Claude to find the trends in Excel data and turn them into summaries and talking points.

StanfordSession on Wed, Oct 14
Navigating Stanford's AI Toolkit: Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini (opens in a new tab)

Thursday Oct 22, 9 am to noon, live online, $300: which AI tools are approved for Stanford work and what data each may hold, with practice in all three.

StanfordSession on Thu, Oct 22
Stanford AI Playground: The Next Level (opens in a new tab)

Thursday Oct 22, 9 am to noon, live online, $200: past the basics in the AI Playground, with presets, the Prompt Library, Memories, Artifacts and File Search.

StanfordSession on Thu, Oct 22