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Today: Meta puts AI wearables in front of a mass-market audience with $299 glasses, Anthropic and Sakana AI rethink how assistants and models are packaged, and dealmaking continues with Qualcomm and Superhuman. Here are five developments worth knowing from the past few days.
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Products & Features
Meta launches its own-brand AI smart glasses starting at $299. On June 23, Meta introduced a line of screenless smart glasses sold under the Meta name rather than the Ray-Ban or Oakley brands, priced at least $80 below its prior entry-level model. Built with EssilorLuxottica and offered in 26 styles across three collections, the glasses run Meta AI powered by Muse Spark — described as the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs — and support voice queries, translation, and hands-free photos and video, with more than eight hours of battery life. They went on sale the same day in the US, Canada, the UK, and several European markets. (CNBC) (TechCrunch) (CNN)
Anthropic puts an always-on Claude inside Slack channels. Anthropic released Claude Tag in research preview on June 23, an assistant that lives in a team's Slack channels under a single organization-level identity rather than only replying in private messages. Because members share the same Claude, they can see what it is working on and continue tasks others started, and it can proactively post summaries, reminders, or context pulled from elsewhere in a company. It is available on Claude Team and Enterprise plans and replaces the earlier Claude-in-Slack integration, which Anthropic plans to retire on August 3; the company said it now routes roughly 65% of its own code changes through an internal version. (TechCrunch) (Engadget) (The New Stack)
Models & Research
Sakana AI releases Fugu, a multi-agent system presented as a single model. The Tokyo lab launched Fugu and Fugu Ultra on June 22, an orchestration system exposed through one OpenAI-compatible API that internally routes requests among specialized models using a trained roughly 7-billion-parameter "conductor." Drawing on the company's ICLR 2026 research, the conductor assigns Thinker, Worker, and Verifier roles dynamically and decides which models to activate for a given task. Sakana published results across eleven engineering, scientific, and reasoning benchmarks comparing the two variants against frontier models including Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.5. (Sakana AI) (Nikkei Asia)
Industry & Business
Qualcomm is in advanced talks to acquire AI software firm Modular for about $4 billion. Bloomberg reported on June 22 that Qualcomm is nearing a deal for Modular, the company behind the Mojo programming language and the MAX inference platform, at a valuation roughly 2.5 times the about $1.6 billion it reached less than a year earlier. The move would extend Qualcomm's push beyond smartphone chips into data-center AI and put its software stack more directly against Nvidia's. Bloomberg cautioned that terms could change and that a deal is not guaranteed; Qualcomm shares fell on the report. (Bloomberg) (Investing.com)
Superhuman acquires AI-detection startup GPTZero. Email and productivity company Superhuman said on June 23 that it is acquiring GPTZero, the AI-text-detection startup founded by Edward Tian that grew to more than 19 million registered users and about $30 million in annual recurring revenue. GPTZero's tools — including AI-content detection, plagiarism analysis, hallucination detection, authorship verification, and AI-image recognition — will be folded into Superhuman Go, the company's assistant. All of GPTZero's roughly 30 employees and both co-founders are joining; financial terms were not disclosed. (TechCrunch) (Superhuman)
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