Digest: April 14–19, 2026

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 amid investor offers valuing the company at $800B; OpenAI expanded Codex into a full computer agent and signed a $20B+ chip deal with Cerebras.

Author: Michael Kokin ·

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, and investors floated an $800B valuation for the company. OpenAI expanded Codex into a full-blown computer agent and signed a $20B+ chip supply deal with Cerebras. Cursor was in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation.

🤖 AI

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 — better engineering tasks, high-res vision, and sharper instruction following; includes a built-in Cyber Verification Program for cybersecurity. Source

OpenAI introduced GPT-Rosalind — a specialized model for drug discovery and biological research, with improved reasoning and integration with scientific databases. Source

Perplexity launched Personal Computer — an AI platform with a new OS model: the agent autonomously pursues goals through probabilistic planning and deep web search rather than executing commands. Source

Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS — prompt-controlled text-to-speech with support for accents, voice characters, and speech dynamics. Source

💻 Software

OpenAI expanded Codex into a computer agent — background computer control, multi-agent workflows, PR review. In a separate demo, Codex exploited a Samsung Smart TV via a kernel vulnerability in ntksys. Source

Anthropic launched Claude Design — a product for quickly creating visual content with no design skills required. Anthropic's CPO promptly stepped off the Figma board. Source

Anthropic added Routines to Claude Code — repeatable tasks now run on cloud infrastructure without needing to keep your Mac on (Pro: 5/day, Max: 15/day). Source

Google built a desktop agent to compete with Cowork — the agent expansion in Gemini Enterprise added a task interface and a "Require human review" toggle. Source

⚙️ Robots and hardware

Musk's Terafab team reached out to chip manufacturers for quotes — offered to pay above market for priority supply, pushing toward vertical integration to route around the ASML bottleneck. Source

Apple sent Siri engineers to an AI coding bootcamp — around 200 engineers are learning to code with AI ahead of an updated Siri announcement at WWDC in two months. Source

💰 Business

Investors pitched Anthropic at an $800B valuation — the company has so far turned down several new round offers; an IPO as early as October 2026 is also reportedly on the table. Source

OpenAI signed a $20B+ supply deal with Cerebras — a 3-year agreement covering GPU servers and a potential OpenAI stake in Cerebras, which is prepping for an IPO in Q2. Source

Cursor was in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation — surging enterprise growth for the AI editor caught the attention of major investors. Source