To give Claude web access, click the sliders button in the prompt box, and enable the Web search toggle switch. The AI bot will then refer to the web at large as and when it deems it appropriate to your query, but if you want to make sure it uses online information as part of its response, include something like "search the web" in your prompt.

Anthropic has rolled out a new API for its line of chatbots, Claude, that now allows it to search the web for various sources of information.

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Claude, developed by the AI safety startup Anthropic, has been pitched as the ethical brainiac of the chatbot world. With its focus on transparency, helpfulness and harmlessness (yes, really), Claude is quickly gaining traction as a trusted tool for everything from legal analysis to lesson planning.

Anthropic is launching a new API that allows its Claude AI models to search across the web. Developers using it can build Claude-powered apps that deliver up-to-date info, the company said in a ...