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Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Your Slack workspace has a new coworker — Claude. |
Anthropic just debuted Claude Tag, which brings the agentic capabilities previously limited to Claude Code and Cowork into Slack channels, enabling entire teams to simply tag the AI to handle tasks ranging from engineering to marketing. |
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In today’s AI rundown: |
Claude joins Slack as an agentic coworker Meta doubles down on AI smart glasses Build a Clippy-like desktop pet for Codex Programming language for AI-driven biology 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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ANTHROPIC |
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Image source: Anthropic |
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The Rundown: Anthropic just launched Claude Tag, a new way to make its AI assistant available inside Slack, letting teams tag it like a teammate to handle tasks asynchronously and build context across channels, codebases, and tools over time. |
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While Claude Code brought agentic capabilities to individuals, Claude Tag takes it to teams, with the AI handling tasks for members in a Slack channel. You just have to tag @Claude with the task, and the AI will break it into stages, work through them using approved tools and data, and respond when done. Claude learns over time, builds context about the work being done, and can even take action across different channels — but only where it has access. It also uses an ambient mode, where Claude fetches information from relevant channels and follows up on tasks that have gone quiet and may need attention.
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Why it matters: Andrej Karpathy calls Claude Tag the “3rd major redesign of LLM UI UX,” and it’s hard to disagree. Going from chat and desktop to Slack — where most business context and tools live — is a natural next step. With Anthropic already rolling it out today, this release will surely hurt more than a few “agentic coworker” startups. |
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TOGETHER WITH HUBSPOT |
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The Rundown: HubSpot’s free, comprehensive “How to Use ChatGPT at Work” guide provides 100+ ready-to-use prompts to help professionals boost efficiency and adopt AI-driven workflows. |
Inside, you’ll find: |
A quick crash course to master ChatGPT in under 30 minutes Practical industry use cases to spark real-world inspiration 100+ prompts to streamline tasks and accelerate productivity Expert tips to tackle common AI roadblocks with confidence
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Get your free copy and join 10,000+ professionals leveling up with AI. |
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META |
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Image source: Meta |
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The Rundown: Meta is doubling down on the AI wearable space with the launch of “Meta Glasses,” a new $299 line of smart glasses built in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and powered by its Muse Spark AI out of the box. |
The details: |
Meta Glasses come in three designs — Meta Adventurer, Meta Fury, and Meta Glasses by Kylie — spanning 26 styles across colors, lenses, and frames. The Kylie variant, at $399, is designed to be a fan-favorite with an embedded gem, a custom chime, and the option to use Kylie Jenner’s voice for Meta AI. The glasses use Meta’s Muse Spark AI, promising smarter answers, better visual understanding, turn-by-turn navigation, and live translation. While the hardware remains the same as previous models, the price is the highlight, with Meta ditching the Ray-Ban/Oakley branding for affordability.
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Why it matters: Meta’s AI glasses play has been far from perfect, but the company still holds ~80% of the market. With this release, it is implementing a two-tier strategy — Ray-Ban for fashion credibility, Meta Glasses for price accessibility — that aims to close all remaining gaps and further increase the lead over rivals, especially Google. |
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AI TRAINING |
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The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to create a Clippy-like custom animated desktop pet for Codex. It will sit on your screen and show progress updates — keeping you informed while your agent works in the background. |
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Open the Codex app, update it, then go to Settings → Appearance → Pets to explore the built-in pets and see how they behave while Codex is working Ask Codex for four simple mascot concepts that are readable at small sizes and work well on transparent backgrounds. Pick one and simplify it if needed Prompt “Use @hatch-pet to create a custom Codex pet,” describing your mascot. Codex will generate the pet pack, poses, and desktop overlay assets When the generation finishes, return to Settings → Appearance → Pets, click Refresh, select your new pet, and click Wake to bring it to life on your desktop
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Pro tip: Keep your mascot simple. Clear animal or creature designs tend to generate more consistent sprite packs than complex characters with lots of details. |
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PRESENTED BY GOOGLE |
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The Rundown: The ‘Startup technical guide: AI agents’ is a vital resource from Google for Startups and Google Cloud, designed to provide companies with a detailed technical roadmap covering the critical components, architectural considerations, and best practices for creating robust, scalable, and production-ready agents. |
In this guide, you’ll explore: |
Mapping critical AI agent components Building scalable agents on Google Cloud Proven deployment best practices for startups
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Get the guide. |
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AI BIOLOGY |
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Image Source: Laboratory of Evolutionary Design |
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The Rundown: Brian Hie — the Stanford professor behind Evo genomic language models — just released Proto, an open framework that lets researchers compose AI biology models and tools into unified pipelines, rather than running them in isolation. |
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Over 120 AI biology models exist, but combining them has been impossible due to incompatible software, conflicting dependencies, and different input formats. Proto brings a shared language, taking a research goal, composing relevant models, scoring, and steering work across DNA, RNA, proteins, and ligands. In tests, it designed cell-line-specific splicing patterns with 32% success, testing only 65 candidates, vs. 7% with previous methods testing ~1,000. AI agents can also write Proto programs, with the team using Claude to diversify 249 human protein complexes and specify a lung cancer therapy.
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Why it matters: AI biology models and tools have never been more capable, but most researchers still can’t combine them for maximum benefit. Proto is the integration layer that changes that. If it becomes the standard interface for biological AI, every new model plugs straight in. It won’t cure diseases on its own, but it will pave the way for it. |
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🗣️ MAI-Voice-2 - Microsoft’s AI for speech generation in 15 languages 📰 Unlimited OCR - Baidu’s new OCR model, processes 40+ pages in one pass 📃 OCR 4 - Mistral’s OCR model with layout-aware document understanding 📹️ Flow - Google’s creative AI studio, now generates videos with real locations
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AWS Summit Washington, DC, begins June 30. Explore the latest AI innovations, network with peers, learn from experts. Save your spot for free.* |
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said in an Axios interview that AI could “destroy small businesses” by making it harder for them to persuade agents to buy their products. |
OpenAI researcher Shyamal Anadkat left the AI lab and returned to India, teasing a new AI venture and arguing that global AI breakthroughs can be built anywhere. |
The Trump administration is pressuring Meta to submit its models for government reviews, as the U.S. increases scrutiny of advanced AI over security concerns. |
Nvidia launched BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, which gives AI agents callable tools for protein structure prediction, molecular docking, generative chemistry, and more. |
Krea open-sourced Krea 2 Raw and Krea 2 Turbo, releasing an undistilled image model for fine-tuning alongside a fast 2K image generator for consumer hardware. |
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Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier. |
Today’s workflow comes from reader Tricia in Hampstead, NH: |
“I am a special education teacher who has used AI to make learning accessible for my students...I used to spend hours developing activities. Now I can use AI as a brainstorming partner to develop and improve instructional lessons and activities. |
Also, tabulating data is a big part of monitoring student success. Now, I can use AI not only to develop data collection systems but also to analyze and present data in a way that is meaningful and accessible to parents. I also used to have to coordinate individual learning for my disabled students. Now I can enter a specific target skill or level and develop lessons specific to that need. |
After 30 years in special education, I feel like a first-year teacher again. Although I am still learning, the new, daily options for broadening my options are exciting and accessible. The user-friendly nature of The Rundown doesn’t leave people like me behind. Instead, it invites us into this new technology that will revolutionize all fields.” |
How do you use AI? Tell us here. |
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See you soon, |
Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown |
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