Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7 While Keeping Its More Capable Model Locked Away
Anthropic ships Opus 4.7 with serious coding and vision gains, and openly admits its more powerful Mythos model is too dangerous to release broadly.
Day: April 16, 2026
Canva’s AI 2.0 Turns the Entire Design Process Into a Conversation
Canva’s AI 2.0 replaces the template-first workflow with agentic orchestration, a proprietary design model, and persistent memory — its biggest architectural overhaul since 2013.
Dorsey and Sequoia’s Botha want to replace middle management with a “world model”
Jack Dorsey and Sequoia’s Roelof Botha argue middle management exists to route information — and Block just cut 40% of its workforce betting AI can do that job better.
Anthropic shipped 8 new ways to work with Claude in six weeks
Anthropic shipped eight new ways to work with Claude in six weeks — from free memory to Claude Code auto mode — and the pattern is a land grab, not a roadmap.
Lovable adds built-in payments, catching up to Bolt on monetization
Lovable’s AI app builder now generates working payment flows directly from chat, with Paddle, Stripe, or Shopify handling the backend and tax compliance built in.
Google puts Gemini prompts one click away with new Chrome Skills
Google rolled out Skills in Chrome on April 14, letting Gemini users save working prompts and trigger them with a single click — a feature Anthropic’s Claude in Chrome already offered, minus the paywall.
Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS ships with 200 audio tags and undercuts ElevenLabs on price
Google’s new Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS undercuts ElevenLabs on price while shipping 200+ audio tags, native multi-speaker dialogue, and support for over 70 languages.
Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 This Week as OpenAI’s “Spud” Sits One Checkpoint Away
Anthropic is expected to ship Claude Opus 4.7 within days as OpenAI’s codename-Spud model finishes pretraining — two rival labs colliding on release week.