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Anthropic moved Claude into Slack yesterday, where anyone on the team can tag it into a channel like a colleague and hand off real work. Give it a task and it runs the job on its own, posting back what it made and even chasing down threads that have gone quiet. Inside Anthropic, that same Claude already writes 65% of the product team's code. Let's dive in!
In today’s insights:
Claude Clocks Into Your Slack as a Coworker
Oracle Cuts 21,000 Jobs to Fund Its $56 Billion AI Bet
The Mind Behind Siri's AI Reboot Quits Apple
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ANTHROPIC
🏷️ Claude Clocks Into Your Slack as a Coworker
Evolving AI: You can now hand Claude jobs straight from a Slack channel..
Key Points:
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, and once tagged it breaks a request into steps and posts the finished work back in the thread.
One Claude lives in every channel so any teammate can pick up where the last person stopped.
The beta is live now on Slack for Enterprise and Team customers.
Details:
Claude Tag remembers the channel as it reads along so a task rarely needs explaining twice and a stalled thread gets a nudge once ambient mode is on. Rather than wait for a prompt it can line up its own tasks and work them over days. The same habit already handles metrics and support tickets and now writes 65% of the product code inside Anthropic.
Why It Matters:
Anthropic is sketching a workplace where the coworker in the thread never logs off and acts before anyone asks. For the person at the desk the job shifts toward steering and checking what a Claude already produced. A piece of everyday judgment now sits with a system that keeps working after people go home.
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Key Points:
Oracle's SEC filing points to AI as a direct cause of the cuts.
Severance and exit costs reached $1.8 billion, up from $374 million.
Headcount fell to 141,000 from 162,000 over the past year.
Details:
Oracle revealed the cuts in its annual filing with the SEC, where it spent $55.7 billion on capacity in a single year and sent free cash flow to negative $23.7 billion. Most of that money built data centers for customers like OpenAI, which is why Oracle now carries $638 billion in signed contracts it has yet to deliver. The same filing warned the restructuring could leave the company short of skilled workers.
Why It Matters:
OpenAI's need for computing power helps decide who keeps a job at one of the oldest names in software. For anyone in a steady corporate role, the hard part of Oracle's filing is a record backlog and mass layoffs landing together. The companies spending hardest on AI are the ones letting the most people go.
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Evolving AI: Josh Elman is leaving Apple for a16z to fund the next wave of consumer AI.
Key Points:
His biggest Apple project was helping rebuild Siri around Apple Intelligence.
Earlier in his career he grew Twitter nearly 10x and made early bets on Discord and TikTok.
At a16z he will fund early consumer AI apps he believes are finally ready to go mainstream.
Details:
Apple brought Elman aboard in 2020 and gradually moved him from App Store discovery into the core of its Siri rebuild. He is leaving just two weeks after that overhaul reached iPhones and a little over five years after he joined. Before Apple he spent close to a decade as an investor at Greylock while also running product at Robinhood. That operating record is what a16z gains as it places him on its consumer apps team beside Anish Acharya and Alex Rampell.
Why It Matters:
a16z is putting serious money behind consumer AI and pairing it with a product veteran known for spotting the apps people love. For everyday users that raises the odds the AI tools landing on their phones are built to earn a real place in daily life. With his eye steering those bets the coming year should bring more assistants and apps designed around how people live.
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