Claude Joins Your Team. Grok Moves Into Word. Copilot Cowork Goes Live.

Welcome

I have three products worth acting on this week. Anthropic launched Claude Tag, which puts @Claude inside your Slack workspace as an actual team member: your people tag it with tasks in any channel, and it works through them asynchronously while everyone else focuses on real work. Companies running it in beta report recovering 5-plus hours per week of collective research time.

Grok for Word launched as a free Microsoft 365 add-in that turns rough meeting notes into a structured document inside Word itself, no copy-paste loop, in under 10 minutes. And this week's Productivity Gem shows you exactly how to wire Claude Tag into a dedicated Slack research channel in 45 minutes, so the whole setup is done before Friday.

01 / Quick Hits

Claude Fable 5 leaves standard plans. As of June 23, Fable 5 is no longer included in Pro, Max, Team, or seat-based Enterprise subscriptions at no extra cost; continued access requires a separate add-on, so review who on your team relies on it before the next billing cycle. Read more ->

Grok 4.3 arrives on Amazon Bedrock with a 1-million-token context window, configurable reasoning levels, and tool calling, at $1.25 input and $2.50 output per million tokens, currently the lowest-cost US-lab frontier reasoning model on Bedrock. Read more ->

ChatGPT Enterprise can now take actions in Slack, not just search it: join a channel, create a reminder, upload a file, or update a profile, with admins controlling which actions are enabled from the Apps console. Read more ->

ChatGPT Enterprise gets a credit usage dashboard. The Global Admin Console now shows credit consumption across ChatGPT and Codex by user, product, and model, with workspace limits, group caps, and individual overrides; check it before your next budget review. Read more ->

Noam Shazeer joins OpenAI as Lead for Architecture Research, announced June 18. His signature contribution is efficiency at scale, so cheaper, faster GPT models are the likely near-term result; watch for architecture announcements in Q4. Read more ->

02 / Top AI Updates

1. @Claude Is Now on Your Team in Slack

Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a product that joins your Slack workspace as a team member. Anyone tags @Claude in a channel with a task; Claude works through it asynchronously, posts the result in the thread, and builds context across conversations so you stop re-explaining the same background each time. An ambient mode monitors channels and proactively flags things you should know. Available in beta for Enterprise and Team customers, with a 4-step setup that takes under 20 minutes.

Why it matters: I think async delegation inside Slack is the first agent pattern that fits how teams already work. Prove it in one channel before you roll it wide.

Action items:

• Confirm your Claude plan is Enterprise or Team, then connect your Slack workspace from claude.ai admin settings.
• Create one test channel, give Claude a single data source, and set a monthly spend limit before going broad.
• Tag @Claude with one real research question and judge the output before any team rollout.