Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools

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View this email online in your browser  January 26, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools: Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon. Read More Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti: More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.  Read More TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok US deal finalized: Skylight, co-founded by CEO Tori White and CTO Reed Harmeyer, offers a built-in video editor; user profiles; support for likes, commenting, and sharing; and the ability for community curators to create custom feeds for others to follow. Read More Be the first to know when news breaks Subscribe to our News Alerts, and you won't miss a thing. Breaking news, exclusives, and special reports—straight to your inbox. Sign up for News Alerts! A message from Antigravity Antigravity A1: World's First 360 Drone The first ever drone built for full 360-degree flight complete with VR-style goggles. Capture everything around you in a single take (in full 8K!), with immersive point-to-fly control and seamless automatic editing. From Jan 26 to Feb 9, all three A1 bundles are 15% off for a limited time. Discover A1 Afternoon Must-Reads Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference: Maia comes equipped with over 100 billion transistors, delivering over 10 petaflops in 4-bit precision and approximately 5 petaflops of 8-bit performance — a substantial increase over its predecessor. Read More Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown : From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine. Read More Nvidia invests $2B to help debt-ridden CoreWeave add 5GW of AI compute: CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia's products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture. Read More Vinod Khosla publicly disavows Keith Rabois' comments on ICE shooting: Unwavering Trump loyalist and VC Keith Rabois caused his colleague and his firm's founder to distance themseves from his comments on ICE. Read More Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out: British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago. Read More A message from TechCrunch Events Disrupt 2026: +1 pass 50% off ends this Friday Save 50% on a +1 ticket — offer ends this Friday or when the first 500 passes are gone! Lock in Disrupt tickets at Super Early Bird pricing now and join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators Oct 13–15 in San Francisco for curated networking, 250+ speakers, 200+ sessions, and 300+ startup demos. Register Now You missed these chats from Disrupt: Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens. Watch on Cheddar.com Watch on Streaming Last but Not Least Nvidia's new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago: Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107

Apple's new AirTag is louder and can be found across longer distances

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View this email online in your browser  January 26, 2026 TechCrunch Top 3 Apple's new AirTag is louder and can be found across longer distances: Apple's new AirTag is louder and supports better finding at longer distances. Read More Nvidia's new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago: Nvidia announced three new AI weather tools today. Together, they promise to improve the accuracy of weather forecasts while also making them accessible to more users. Read More ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk's Grokipedia: Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk's xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT. Read More Be the first to know when news breaks Subscribe to our News Alerts, and you won't miss a thing. Breaking news, exclusives, and special reports—straight to your inbox. Sign up for News Alerts! A message from PulpaTronics RFID tags don't have to be costly and unsustainable. PulpaTronics offers fully recyclable, metal-free RFID tags for inventory tracking. Unlike 45 billion single-use tags made with metal antennas, we transform paper into conductive circuits to cut CO2 emissions by 60% and costs by 30%. We're fundraising to scale up manufacturing. Join us so we can help you achieve your ESG goals and better margins Learn More Morning Must-Reads Nvidia invests $2B to help debt-ridden CoreWeave add 5GW of AI compute: CoreWeave will also integrate Nvidia's products across its platform, including the new Rubin chip architecture. Read More This founder cracked firefighting -- now he's creating an AI gold mine: The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls "the muscle on the ground." Read More Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they're building a model to prove it: Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building the next generation of foundation models for collaboration, not chat. Read More Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February: We're about to get our first real look at the results of the recently announced AI partnership between Apple and Google. Read More Google says it's fixed Gmail issues with spam and misclassification: If your Gmail account doesn't seem to be working properly today, you're not alone. Read More A message from TechCrunch Events Disrupt 2026: +1 pass 50% off ends this Friday Save 50% on a +1 ticket — offer ends this Friday or when the first 500 passes are gone! Lock in Disrupt tickets at Super Early Bird pricing now and join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators Oct 13–15 in San Francisco for curated networking, 250+ speakers, 200+ sessions, and 300+ startup demos. Register Now You missed these chats from Disrupt: Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens. Watch on Cheddar.com Watch on Streaming Last but Not Least Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out: British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago. Read More Check out some of our other newsletters: StrictlyVC TechCrunch Events TechCrunch Mobility Want to adjust your daily newsletter schedule? You can do it right here Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Unsubscribe Member Center Privacy Policy Copyright © 2026 TechCrunch Media LLC 501 2nd Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94107