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Anthropic reveals how Claude “thinks”
A peek inside Claude’s logic, planning and hallucinations.
Mike
March 27, 2025
Welcome back.
Anthropic just gave us a peek inside Claude’s "mind", revealing how their AI plans, reasons, and even hallucinates.
It's a fascinating glimpse into how these models think behind the scenes.
Let's dive in.
In today’s release:
1. Tracing the thoughts of Claude
2. Ideogram 3.0 is here
3. Microsoft releases AI agents
Tracing the inner workings of Claude’s “mind”
Anthropic has released two papers offering a deeper look into how its language model, Claude, processes information. The research introduces new interpretability methods that trace the model’s internal circuits, revealing how Claude plans, reasons, and even fabricates explanations.
Using a technique they describe as an “AI microscope”, researchers found that Claude often thinks across languages using shared conceptual structures. In one study, the model demonstrated the ability to plan ahead when writing poetry, selecting rhyming words before composing a line.
Planned generation: The model selects target words in advance when rhyming or solving constraints.
Hallucination mechanism: Claude’s default is to refuse to answer unless “known answer” features are triggered.
Reasoning fidelity: In some cases, Claude creates logical-sounding explanations after reaching a conclusion.
The findings suggest that language models like Claude don’t merely react word-by-word; they often reason ahead, repurpose learned strategies, and balance competing objectives like coherence and safety. This line of interpretability research could be critical for detecting unreliable behaviour, understanding model decisions, and improving future alignment efforts.
How can you use this to your advantage?
These interpretability tools offer a new way to audit models beyond surface outputs. As AI systems become more complex and integrated into sensitive domains, being able to observe how decisions are formed, rather than just what’s said, may be key to building more trustworthy systems.
Ideogram 3.0 raises the bar for AI image generation
Ideogram has launched Ideogram 3.0, a major update to its text-to-image tool that offers more realistic visuals, stronger style control, and high-quality text generation. The new version makes it easier than ever to create everything from brand logos to photorealistic scenes.
With a new feature called Style References, users can upload up to three images to guide the look of what they generate. This makes it easy to match a specific style without needing to describe it in words. There's also a “Random style” option to explore presets from a massive library of over 4.3 billion styles, and once you find one you like, you can save and reuse it with a simple style code.
Text rendering: Accurately generate artistic, stylized, or complex text.
Professional tools: Create logos, posters, and product visuals in seconds.
Realism upgrade: Better lighting, detail, and environment quality.
Ideogram 3.0 also delivers advanced layout and text design, which is especially useful for marketing and branding. You can now design logos, social ads, or landing pages without needing a professional design tool.
How can you use this to your advantage?
Whether you're building a brand, launching a product, or designing social content, Ideogram 3.0 gives you fast, high-quality visuals with minimal effort. It’s especially powerful for those who want professional-level design but don’t have the time, budget, or team to make it from scratch.
Microsoft releases Researcher and Analyst AI agents
Microsoft is introducing two new AI agents, Researcher and Analyst, designed to help users handle complex work tasks directly inside Microsoft 365. These tools use deep reasoning and securely access your company’s data, including emails, meetings, files, and more, to deliver insights and analysis quickly and accurately.
The Researcher helps with multi-step research tasks, combining OpenAI’s research model with Microsoft’s internal tools to create go-to-market plans, client reports, and trend analysis. Analyst, built on OpenAI’s o3-mini model, acts like a data scientist, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing complex data with Python code you can review in real time.
Researcher: Gathers and connects data from internal docs and tools like Salesforce or Confluence.
Analyst: Handles multi-step data tasks and live code execution to solve advanced queries.
Rollout: Launching in April for Microsoft 365 Copilot users via the new Frontier program.
Security-first: Access is governed by the Copilot Control System, ensuring compliance and data safety.
These tools mark a shift from AI as a helper to AI as a reasoning partner, handling multi-layered thinking and automating business tasks end to end.
How can you use this to your advantage?
If your work involves research, reporting, or data analysis, these tools can cut hours of manual effort. Researcher and Analyst help you move faster, think deeper, and deliver polished work with less friction, directly inside the tools you already use.
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A Cambridge AI model can detect celiac disease from biopsy scans as accurately as a human pathologist but much faster. It could drastically cut diagnosis times, easing pressure on the UK’s NHS and reducing patient waitlists.
Twin’s first AI agent automates invoice collection for Qonto customers, retrieving missing invoices from thousands of services. It’s a no-prompt, user-friendly agent that could pave the way for broader B2B automation tools.
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UX Pilot → Superfast UX/UI Design with AI.
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AND THAT’S A WRAP
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Mike