Anthropic launches Claude Meetings beta for video calls

The notable shift here is distribution rather than capability: putting Claude inside live calls as a visible participant moves it from a tool users open to a presence other participants must account for, which changes the social dynamics of a meeting as much as the workflow. Gating it to Team and Enterprise plans signals Anthropic is targeting organizational seats, where meeting transcription and participation are already contested ground among productivity suites. Whether the visible-participant framing proves an asset for adoption or a friction point for the people on the other side of the call is the open question.