🎙️ EP 297: "Claude Tag" For Slack & Japan’s Fugu Model Defies Export Controls

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Anthropic is turning Claude into a permanent, proactive office colleague with a brand-new persistent memory service that lives directly inside your team's Slack channels. At the same time, Japan's Sakana AI has launched a multi-agent orchestrator named Fugu, explicitly engineered to help developers bypass the recent global export controls crippling top-tier models.

We’ll talk about:

• Anthropic rolling out "Claude Tag," an ambient AI teammate that monitors Slack threads, recalls team workflows, and proactively jumps into conversations.
• Sakana AI launching Fugu, a geopolitical-resilient multi-agent system designed to deliver frontier-level coding and reasoning without relying on banned Western models.
• OpenAI officially opening applications for DevDay 2026, locked in for San Francisco on September 29th.
• Oracle slashing 21,000 jobs, nearly 13% of its workforce, citing massive efficiency gains from internal AI deployments over the past year.

Keywords: Claude Tag, Sakana AI Fugu, Anthropic Slack integration, OpenAI DevDay 2026, Oracle layoffs.