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Welcome back to The AI Field.
This week Anthropic turned Claude into something you can message from your phone and walk away. Meta quietly killed the $80 billion metaverse experiment. Google shipped a free AI design tool that turns voice prompts into full app interfaces. And Gemini is getting its own Mac app to go head to head with ChatGPT and Claude.
The tools are getting smarter. The bets that did not work are getting cut. And the race for your desktop just got a new player.
Let's break it down.
In this issue:
🤖 Claude adds Dispatch and Channels for async work
💀 Meta shuts down Horizon Worlds after burning $80B
💻 Google tests a native Gemini Mac app with Desktop Intelligence
Plus: Google Stitch just became the best free AI design tool
Read time: 5 minutes.
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Anthropic
🤖 Did Claude Just End the OpenClaw Era?
The AI Field: Anthropic shipped two major updates to Claude this week that change how you interact with it. The first is Dispatch, a new feature in Claude Cowork that gives you one persistent conversation with Claude running on your computer, that you can message from your phone. The second is Channels, which connects Claude Code directly to Telegram and Discord.
Key details:
Dispatch lets you assign tasks to Claude from your phone, then walk away. Claude works in a sandbox on your machine with files staying local. You approve what it can access remotely. When you come back, the work is done, files organized, tables generated and everything completed.
Felix Rieseberg, who leads Claude Cowork at Anthropic, announced Dispatch as a research preview on March 17. To try it, download Claude Desktop and pair your phone.
Channels connects Claude Code to messaging apps via MCP plugins. You send a message in Telegram or Discord, it arrives in your Claude Code session, Claude does the work, and replies back in the chat. It turns your chat app into a remote terminal controller.
Channels requires Claude Code v2.1.80 or later and Bun runtime. It is currently in research preview with Telegram and Discord as supported platforms.
Unlike a standard chat that times out, a Claude Code session can now run in a background terminal or a persistent server, waiting for a ping to spring into action.
Why This Matters: These two features turn Claude from something you sit in front of into something that works for you while you are away. Dispatch is for everyone — message from your phone, come back to finished work. Channels is for developers who want their AI coding assistant available in the same apps they already live in. The direction is clear: Anthropic wants Claude to be the first AI assistant that actually runs in the background of your life.
The AI Field: Meta is shutting down Horizon Worlds on VR devices by June 2026. The platform that was supposed to be the future of social interaction is being pulled from the Quest store at the end of March and fully removed from VR on June 15. It will only survive as a stripped-down mobile app.
Key details:
Meta's Reality Labs division has lost close to $80 billion since 2020 — including $17.7 billion in 2024 and $19.1 billion in 2025.
Active users never passed a few hundred thousand per month. An independent investigation in 2024 found as few as 900 daily active users.
Most users never returned after their first month. Only 9% of user-created worlds ever attracted more than 50 visitors.
The platform launched in 2021 when Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta, calling the metaverse "the next big thing."
Meta has since shifted its entire strategic focus from VR to artificial intelligence.
Why This Matters: This is the most expensive product failure in tech history. Zuckerberg bet the company's identity on the metaverse — literally renamed the company for it — and five years later it is being quietly buried. The lesson is not that VR is dead. It is that building a social platform nobody wants to use does not get fixed by spending more money. Meta learned the hard way that you cannot will a platform into existence. The $80 billion is gone. The future Meta is building now runs on AI, not avatars.
The AI Field: Google has quietly started beta testing a native Gemini app for macOS with a small group of users. The app brings Gemini directly to the Mac desktop for the first time, matching ChatGPT and Claude which both already have dedicated Mac apps.
Key details:
The app can search the web, analyze uploaded documents, generate images, video, music, tables, and charts, and maintain conversation history.
The standout feature is called "Desktop Intelligence" — it lets Gemini see what is on your screen and pull data directly from Mac apps like your calendar, documents, or browser to deliver context-aware responses.
Google has not announced a public release date. Testers were told the app only has "critical features," suggesting there is more to come.
The app reportedly looks similar to the Gemini apps already available on iPhone and iPad.
This puts Google in a three-way desktop AI race alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT app and Anthropic's Claude Desktop.
Why This Matters: The desktop is becoming the next battleground for AI companies. ChatGPT was first. Claude followed. Now Google is coming with a feature neither of them have: the ability to see and understand what is on your screen across all your apps. If Desktop Intelligence works well, it could be the strongest argument yet for switching to Gemini. The AI company that owns your desktop owns the context of your entire workflow. Google knows that.
🛠 TOOL OF THE WEEK
Google Stitch — Design Full App Interfaces With AI, For Free
Google just gave Stitch its biggest update yet. The AI design tool from Google Labs now runs on an infinite canvas where you go from rough idea to working prototype without switching tools. Tell it what you want in a text prompt, sketch, image, or even your voice, and it generates high-fidelity UI designs for web and mobile, complete with clean HTML and CSS you can actually use.
The new Voice Canvas feature lets you have a conversation with Stitch about your design. It interviews you about your goals, critiques your work, suggests alternatives, and makes real-time changes while you talk. It can now generate up to five screens at once.
Best for: Founders, creators, and anyone building apps without a design team.
Price: Completely free. 350 generations per month in Standard Mode, 50 in Experimental Mode.
Worth trying: If you have been paying for Figma or struggling with v0, Stitch is the first tool that makes AI-assisted design genuinely accessible and it costs nothing.
Three tools on our radar this week that are worth checking out.
⚡ Base44 - Build fully functional web apps without writing a single line of code. Describe what you want in plain language and Base44 builds it for you in seconds. If you have ever had an idea for a tool or app but no dev skills to make it happen, this is the fastest way to go from concept to working product.
🎙️ ElevenLabs - The industry standard for AI-generated voices. Whether you are producing a podcast, dubbing a video, or adding voiceover to content, ElevenLabs delivers realistic, natural-sounding voices in over 30 languages. There is a reason this is the tool most creators default to for audio.
🎨 Adcreative - Generate ad creatives that are actually optimized for conversions. This AI-powered tool creates banners, ads, and social content designed to drive clicks and sales, not just look good. Useful for anyone running paid campaigns who wants to test more creatives without hiring a designer.
🔥 THE AI FIELD'S TAKE
This week drew a line between the companies building and the companies cutting.
Anthropic shipped features that make Claude work while you sleep. Google launched a free design tool that turns a voice conversation into a working app prototype. And Google is putting Gemini on your Mac desktop with the ability to see everything on your screen.
Meanwhile, Meta buried an $80 billion bet. Horizon Worlds never found its audience. The metaverse, as Zuckerberg imagined it, is over. The future Meta is building now is powered by AI, not headsets.
The pattern is clear. The winners in AI are not the ones spending the most. They are the ones shipping tools that people actually use. Stitch is free. Dispatch works from your phone. Channels runs in your chat app. None of this costs $80 billion.
The companies that win will be the ones that disappear into your workflow not the ones that ask you to strap a headset to your face.
Jensen Huang just said NVIDIA expects $1 trillion in orders through 2027. At GTC 2026 this week, Huang unveiled Vera Rubin a next-gen AI platform integrating seven chips into one unified supercomputer and previewed Kyber, a vertical rack architecture shipping in 2027. Double the projection from last year.
30+ OpenAI and Google employees publicly backed Anthropic's DOD lawsuit. In a joint statement, employees from rival AI companies said Anthropic's safety red lines should be protected, not punished. This is the first time employees from competing firms have united on a policy issue like this.
Three teenage girls are suing Elon Musk's xAI over Grok deepfakes.
A class-action lawsuit filed March 16 alleges Grok's "Spicy Mode" was used to generate sexualized images from school yearbook photos. The suit contains 13 counts including distribution of child pornography. This is the first major CSAM lawsuit against an AI company.
WRAP-UP
That's all for today's roundup!
🤖 Claude adds Dispatch and Channels for async work
💀 Meta shuts down Horizon Worlds after burning $80B
💻 Google tests a native Gemini Mac app with Desktop Intelligence
What did you think of today’s edition?
Until next time!
Olle | Founder of The AI Field