Claude Updates: Interactive Tools & AI-Resistant Evals

Anthropic has announced a major update to Claude, introducing native interactive tool support that allows the AI to interface directly with external applications. This "Agentic" leap means Claude isn't just chatting anymore—it's doing.

Interactive Tools: The New Standard

The new "Interactive Tools" capability allows enterprise users to connect Claude to Google Docs, internal databases, and custom APIs. Instead of copying and pasting text, users can now ask Claude to "Summarize the Q3 report in Drive" or "Check the inventory status for SKU-123," and Claude will execute the API calls securely.

Fighting "Benchmark Gaming"

In parallel, Anthropic's engineering team released a critical paper on "AI-Resistant Technical Evaluations." As models become more powerful, they often "memorize" public benchmarks (like HumanEval or GSM8K), leading to inflated scores.

Anthropic's new methodology involves:

• Dynamic Evaluation Sets: Tests that change parameters on every run.
• Reasoning Traps: Questions designed to trick models that rely on pattern matching rather than true logic.
• Private Holdout Sets: Zero-contamination data kept offline.

This ensures that when we say a model is "smarter," it actually is—not just better at taking tests.