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April 17, 2026

ChatGPT, Claude, OpenAI Codex and 1 more shipped updates

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT

The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul

The stakes are especially high for OpenAI’s corporate future, as a bad outcome in this case could negatively impact its plans to file for an IPO later this year. The ChatGPT-maker is racing against Anthropic and Musk’s SpaceX (which now ow… | Despite generating billions of dollars in revenue, OpenAI is still overseen by a nonprofit today. Musk was one of the original cofounders of the OpenAI nonprofit and donated ab… The stakes are especially high for OpenAI’s corporate future, as a bad outcome in this case could negatively impact its plans to file for an IPO later this year. The ChatGPT-maker is racing against Anthropic and Musk’s SpaceX (which now ow… Despite generating billions of dollars in revenue, OpenAI is still overseen by a nonprofit today. Musk was one of the original cofounders of the OpenAI nonprofit and donated about $38 million to it during those early days, but he split off… The first concerns whether OpenAI breached its charitable trust. Musk alleges that in the…

Source · The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
Source · The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul
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Claude

Claude

Krieger, who previously co-founded Instagram and the AI-powered news app Artifact, became the top product executive at Anthropic in 2024 and joined the board of Figma less than a year ago.

Figma is the developer of a popular tool for user experience designers who build interfaces for websites and apps. The company has collaborated closely with Anthropic to integrate the frontier lab’s AI models into its products as ass… | Krieger, who previously co-founded Instagram and the AI-powered news app Artifact, became the top product executive at Anthropic in 2024 and joined the board of Figma less than… Figma is the developer of a popular tool for user experience designers who build interfaces for websites and apps. The company has collaborated closely with Anthropic to integrate the frontier lab’s AI models into its products as ass… Krieger, who previously co-founded Instagram and the AI-powered news app Artifact, became the top product executive at Anthropic in 2024 and joined the board of Figma less than a year ago. But companies like Anthropic and OpenAI still have to prove their ultra-capable models can truly replicate the domain experience and relationships…

Source · Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product | TechCrunch
Source · Anthropic CPO leaves Figma's board after reports he will offer a competing product | TechCrunch

Claude

Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities.

Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities. | Anthropic’s new, 158,000-square-foot office footprint will have space enough for 800 people—four times its current head count—giving it room to potentially outscale OpenAI, which itself recently announced an… Anthropic is moving into a new London office as it seeks to expand its research and commercial footprint in Europe, setting up a scrap between the leading AI labs for talent emerging from British universities. Anthropic’s new, 158,000-square-foot office footprint will have space enough for 800 people—four times its current head count—giving it room to potentially outscale OpenAI, which itself recently announced an expansion in London. UK government officials had reportedly attempted to coax Anthropic into expanding its presence in London after the company recently fell…

Source · Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion
Source · Anthropic Plots Major London Expansion

Claude

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

Instruction following . Opus 4.7 is substantially better at following instructions. Interestingly, this means that prompts written for earlier models can sometimes now produce unexpected results: where previous models interpreted instructi… | Improved multimodal support . Opus 4.7 has better vision for high-resolution images: it can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than thre… Instruction following . Opus 4.7 is substantially better at following instructions. Interestingly, this means that prompts written for earlier models can sometimes now produce unexpected results: where previous models interpreted instructi… Improved multimodal support . Opus 4.7 has better vision for high-resolution images: it can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than three times as many as prior Claude models. This opens up a wealth… Real-world work . As well as its state-of-the-art score on the Finance Agent evaluation (see…

Source · Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Source · Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

OpenAI Codex

OpenAI Codex

The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.

The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.

Source · Codex for (almost) everything
Source · Codex for (almost) everything

Cursor

Cursor

The promise of physical AI is that engineers will be able to program physical agents the same way they do digital ones.

The promise of physical AI is that engineers will be able to program physical agents the same way they do digital ones. | 8220;How can we do the best possible job reducing that gap, to make simulation feel just like the real world from the perspective of your autonomous system?” Antioch co-founder Harry Mellsop said. | Mellsop started the New York-based company with four co-founders in May of last year. Two of… The promise of physical AI is that engineers will be able to program physical agents the same way they do digital ones. 8220;How can we do the best possible job reducing that gap, to make simulation feel just like the real world from the perspective of your autonomous system?” Antioch co-founder Harry Mellsop said. Mellsop started the New York-based company with four co-founders in May of last year. Two of the other founders, Alex Langshur and Michael Calvey, joined him to co-found Transpose, a security and intelligence startup, and sell it to Chaina…

Source · This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI | TechCrunch
Source · This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI | TechCrunch