Claude Cowork folded into chat, Meta held liable for scam ads, online card payments up 41 percent
Today's 3 verified headlines: Anthropic merged Claude Cowork and Claude chat into one experience, moved Claude Design inside conversations and introduced Claude Docs and Claude Slides as betas on paid plans, with the rollout starting on Pro and Max over the coming weeks. The Frankfurt am Main Regional Court held Meta liable for fraudulent third-party ads on Facebook and Instagram, ruling that a platform ranking its feed algorithmically cannot claim it had no knowledge; the decision is not final. According to the August 2026 bulletin of Türkiye's Interbank Card Center (BKM), online card payments rose 41 percent year over year to 923.9 billion lira, while the internet's share of total card spending stayed at 30 percent. Full analysis, sources and business impact live on each story's own page.
Anthropic merges Claude Cowork into chat, adds Claude Docs and Slides
On September 16, 2026 Anthropic announced that Claude Cowork and chat are merging into a single Claude experience: users no longer choose where a task goes, Claude works out what it needs. Claude Design now runs inside conversations, and two new features, Claude Docs and Claude Slides, were introduced; all three are in beta on paid plans, with Enterprise admins deciding when to switch them on. The rollout starts on Pro and Max plans over the coming weeks across web, desktop and mobile; no dates were given for Team and Free. Claude Code remains a separate product. Availability for Türkiye and any pricing change are not stated in the announcement.
Frankfurt court holds Meta liable for scam ads
On September 16, 2026 the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court held Meta liable for fraudulent third-party ads that ran on Facebook and Instagram; a personal-finance portal's trademark and its founder's name had been used in fake investment ads. The plaintiffs filed nearly 260 reports in August 2024 alone, and Meta took up to 62 days to delete them. In the court's view, a platform that ranks its feed algorithmically and places ads through automated auctions cannot rely on the no-knowledge defence under the Digital Services Act. The ruling is not final and can be appealed; it has no direct effect in Türkiye, but it strengthens the hand of brands that report copycat ads and keep records.
BKM: online card payments grew 41% in August
According to the August 2026 bulletin of Türkiye's Interbank Card Center (BKM), reported by Anadolu Agency on September 17, payments made with credit, debit and prepaid cards reached 2,990.4 billion lira, up 39 percent year over year, while transaction count rose 11 percent. Online card payments grew 41 percent, from 654.3 billion to 923.9 billion lira, and online transaction count increased 13 percent. The internet's share of total card spending is 30 percent, unchanged from a year earlier, and 81 percent of in-store card payments are contactless. All rates are nominal lira figures; the bulletin gives no inflation adjustment, month-over-month comparison or sector breakdown.
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