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Anthropic's Claude AI now connects with a broad set of lifestyle apps (AllTrails, Instacart, Spotify, Uber, Booking.com, Audible, and more), enabling it to plan activities, pull playlists, or handle multi‑step tasks across services within the chat, with dynamic in‑chat app suggestions and user confirmation before taking actions like reservations or purchases.
AllTrails, a popular hiking app, has become essential for hikers of all levels, offering details on hundreds of thousands of trails worldwide. The app's user base includes both experienced hikers and beginners, with many discovering it through online searches. Originally founded in 2010, AllTrails has seen significant funding and growth, particularly during the pandemic, making it a go-to resource for planning and navigating hiking adventures.
Google Maps is introducing new features to help users navigate national parks, including highlighting entire trails on the map, surfacing helpful details from the Maps community, identifying popular places in a park, providing more precise directions, and offering offline maps for download. The features will be available for all US national parks in April and will roll out to parks worldwide in the coming months. The launch sees Google Maps competing with AllTrails, a fitness and travel mobile platform that provides users with crowdsourced reviews and images.