Snap is investing $3.5 billion in AR glasses called Specs priced at $2,195, positioning them as business tools for a post-smartphone era. CEO Evan Spiegel claims strong preorder interest and has announced partnerships with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce to integrate workplace capabilities. The bet faces skepticism given previous failures by Meta and Google in AR hardware.
Anthropic is merging its Claude Chat and Claude Cowork products into a unified assistant, alongside new beta features like Claude Docs and Claude Slides. The consolidation aims to create an AI superapp that handles multiple tasks within a single interface, mirroring similar efforts by competitors like OpenAI to reduce tool fragmentation and increase user engagement.