🧑💻 Anthropic brings Claude Code to Slack
Developers can now tag @Claude in a thread and spin up a full coding session - context from recent messages, progress updates, links to PRs, the works. It’s a beta, but it feels like the workflow is the product, not just the model. Honestly, it’s sneaky-powerful: fewer tabs, more shipping. Cursor and Copilot do bits of this, sure, but living where teams already chat is… sticky.
📊 OpenAI touts an enterprise surge after a quiet ‘code red’
OpenAI dropped usage data framing ChatGPT as the office workhorse - message volume up big, workers say they save serious time. A bit chest-thumpy, but the numbers land. There’s subtext: pressure from Google on consumer subs, Anthropic strong with B2B. OpenAI’s saying, we’re not just vibes… we’re invoices.
🦾 SoftBank and Nvidia eye Skild AI at a $14B valuation
Talks are on for a more-than-$1B round valuing Skild AI around $14B. Wild jump. Skild builds foundation models for robots - software brains, not the bodies. Investor heat for humanoid robotics is back, again, maybe for real this time… or so it seems. Still, general-purpose bots are notoriously stubborn.
🏛️ White House moves toward a single national AI rule
The plan: one federal rulebook to override the patchwork of state AI laws. Big Tech cheers; state leaders bristle. Classic tug-of-war. If it lands, compliance gets simpler - innovation narrative, yada yada. But preemption fights? Those get messy, fast.
💽 U.S. allows Nvidia to sell H200 chips to approved buyers in China
Policy dial turns a notch: Nvidia can ship certain advanced parts to vetted customers. Not a floodgate - more a measured spigot. Chip geopolitics keeps doing chip geopolitics. Everyone claims balance; nobody looks entirely relaxed.
📱 Meta buys AI wearable startup Limitless
Meta is absorbing the team behind that pendant recorder. Sales pause for now; existing users get support, and the talent heads into Meta’s device push. It’s the same bet, louder: ambient AI that’s always on you. Slightly uncanny… but also kind of inevitable.