Anthropic’s Claude Tag Slack integration is now in research preview, positioning itself as a persistent AI teammate that lives inside your workspace, accumulates context, and acts more like a colleague than a chatbot. The pitch is familiar; the execution is a step further than what Slack’s existing AI tools have attempted. How the Claude Tag Slack Integration Actually Works Users already had ways to invoke Claude inside Slack: direct messages, channel @mentions for on-demand help, and Claude Code in Slack for routing coding tasks to full sessions on the web. Claude Tag replaces the existing Claude in Slack application entirely,…
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The LastPass Klue data breach has exposed customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and customer support case records, the password manager maker has confirmed, though LastPass says its own infrastructure and password vaults were not touched. The breach did not originate at LastPass. It originated at Klue, a market research and competitive intelligence firm headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. Klue CEO Jason Smith disclosed that attackers were identified inside Klue’s systems on 12 June. So: a vendor your password manager used for sales intelligence suffered a breach, and now your contact details and support ticket history are in…
AI tech layoffs in 2026 are accelerating faster than most forecasters expected, and Oracle just put the sharpest number yet on the trend: 21,000 jobs cut over the past 12 months, a 13% reduction in its global workforce, disclosed in its June 22 annual regulatory filing. The company stated plainly that ‘the adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce.’ Not a rumour, not a leak. A line in a financial filing. The twist is that Oracle is also booming. Oracle IR reported fiscal year 2025 total…
The Mach Industries Series C closed on 2 June 2026, raising $300 million and valuing the defence startup at $1.8 billion, roughly four times where it stood when it raised $100 million at a $470 million valuation in June 2025, according to TechCrunch’s Series C report. The round was led by Infinite Capital and Ribbit Capital, with Bedrock Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Khosla Ventures also participating. Total funding now stands at roughly $485 million. For a company that started with a hydrogen-powered prototype built from Home Depot and Amazon parts, that’s a lot of runway to justify. Six programmes, zero…
The Anthropic export control ban arrived at 5:21 PM ET on 12 June, when the Commerce Department sent a letter to CEO Dario Amodei invoking national security authorities to bar all foreign nationals from accessing Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the company’s two most advanced AI models. The directive applied not just to users abroad but to foreign nationals inside the United States, including Anthropic’s own foreign-born employees. Faced with no practical way to screen every user, Anthropic pulled the models entirely. The immediate trigger, according to multiple reports, was Amazon. Reuters reported that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was among…
Signal president Meredith Whittaker has a message for anyone confiding in their AI assistant: these systems are not your friends, they are not conscious, and they are absolutely paying attention. Whittaker made the remarks in a Bloomberg interview, pushing back on the increasingly cosy framing that surrounds products like ChatGPT and Claude. ‘These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors,’ she said, delivering the kind of flat, unambiguous statement that tends to get lost in the ambient enthusiasm of the AI moment. What Meredith Whittaker Actually Thinks About AI Tools To be clear,…
The iOS 27 new features that arrived alongside Apple’s WWDC25 announcements run considerably deeper than Siri’s AI glow-up. Yes, Apple Intelligence grabbed the keynote spotlight when the conference ran from 9 to 13 June 2025, according to the Apple Newsroom. But buried beneath the AI headlines is a solid haul of practical upgrades to Maps, Wallet, Music, Notes, and more. What Apple Maps and Find My Actually Gained Apple Maps is getting two additions that look suspiciously like a response to Google Maps and social discovery apps. The first is a refresh of Flyover, the immersive 3D city-view feature, with…
Kyber, the Paris-based startup building real-time robot control infrastructure, has closed a $5 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with co-investment from OVNI Capital and Kima Ventures. The firm managing the cheque oversees over $50 billion in assets and has previously backed Anthropic and Mistral AI. For a $5m seed, that is a fairly well-credentialled cap table. The company was founded by Jean-Baptiste Kempf, best known in open-source circles as a core contributor to VLC and FFmpeg. His new project takes the same instinct (make media run faster and more reliably, everywhere) and points it squarely at robots,…
The Walt Frazier Finals suits that lit up every broadcast during the Knicks’ 2026 championship run were made in a week by a fifth-generation family business that started life on the Lower East Side over a century ago. You could be forgiven for spending those games watching the wrong person. The Walt Frazier Finals Suits Behind the Broadcast For the uninitiated: Walt ‘Clyde’ Frazier is the legendary Knicks point guard who led the team to their only two championships, in 1970 and 1973, before the 2026 title. He retired more than 40 years ago and has been a fixture on…
Kate Barton Resort 2027 is the young New York designer’s first venture into pre-collections, and it reads less like a commercial hedge and more like a genuine extension of everything she has been quietly building since she debuted her spring 2023 collection alongside her e-commerce platform.The timing makes sense. Barton has spent the past several seasons nudging her brand beyond the sculptural, liquid eveningwear that first made people pay attention, and a resort offering gives her room to do that without disrupting the runway calendar she has built around a September show and a February New York Fashion Week presentation.…