AI/XR roundup: Robert Downey Jr. joins Snap SPECS, Anthropic launches Claude Duet

AR Insider's weekly roundup: Snap enlisted Robert Downey Jr. to promote its SPECS AR glasses starting at $2,195, Anthropic introduced the proactive Claude Duet agent, and OpenAI, Anthropic and Nvidia set record quarterly lobbying spending of $1.5M, $2.1M and $2.2M respectively.

• Snap: Downey Jr. is honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer for SPECS, shipping this fall from $2,195
• Anthropic unveiled Claude Duet, an agent that finds tasks and works via a cloud computer
• Quarterly lobbying: Nvidia $2.2M, Anthropic $2.1M, OpenAI $1.5M
• Meta raised the low end of its 2026 capex forecast to $135B, keeping $145B as the top