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Anthropic dropped Opus 4.7 across Claude products, the API, Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, and GitHub Copilot, with a sharp jump on coding (SWE-Bench Verified 80.8% to 87.6%) and vision (CharXiv 69.1% to 82.1%). Cursor's Michael Truell reports CursorBench 58% to 70%, Box says model-call volume dropped 56%, Rakuten says throughput tripled. Pricing didn't change at $5/$25 per million tokens, but the new tokenizer eats 1.0-1.35x more tokens for the same input — a quiet price hike disguised as a flat sticker.

Why it matters: Anthropic also openly admitted it's holding back a more capable model called Mythos under Project Glasswing, gated to ~40 partners for safety review. The new SOTA is also the deliberately-restrained one. That's a first for the industry.

Launched April 17 from Anthropic Labs, Claude Design turns prompts (or your codebase) into prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral, then exports to Canva, PDF, PPTX, or standalone HTML. Powered by Opus 4.7. Figma closed -6.84%, Wix -4.7%, GoDaddy -3%, Adobe -2.7%. Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger resigned from Figma's board on April 14, three days before launch. Reviewers are mixed — PCWorld blew through 80% of their weekly allowance in 30 minutes, a designer called it 'a slot machine that doesn't hit' — but investors aren't waiting for nuance.

Why it matters: First time Anthropic has gone after a specific software category instead of just shipping a model. The whole design and web-publishing stack got repriced in one day.

Literally one hour after Opus 4.7 went live, OpenAI shipped a Codex update with background computer use on macOS, an Atlas-based in-app browser, gpt-image-1.5, scheduling automations, memory preview, and 90+ plugins (Atlassian Rovo, GitLab, Microsoft). Codex now drives macOS apps with its own cursor while multiple agents run in parallel. The product hit 3M+ weekly users with token usage up 70% MoM, and ~50% already use it for non-coding work. Sam Altman's launch tweet jabbed Anthropic: 'Tibo if you start rate limiting me or making me use worse models...'

Why it matters: OpenAI is openly repositioning Codex as ChatGPT + Codex + Atlas in one shell — the same agentic super-app shape Anthropic is building. The next AI battle is whose agent owns your desktop.

In a 90-minute Dwarkesh Patel sit-down (348K YouTube views, the most-watched AI video of the cycle), Huang dropped his polished keynote voice for a 40-minute argument that China already has enough domestic compute to train a Mythos-class frontier model — so cutting off Nvidia chips just shoves Chinese developers off CUDA. Critics (Zvi Mowshowitz, Transformer's Shakeel Hashim, IFP's Alec Stapp) flagged the same internal contradiction: chips can't be both indispensable and already abundant. Headline line: 'DeepSeek on Huawei first would be a horrible outcome for our nation.'

Why it matters: The interview essentially admits Nvidia's commercial margin window in China is fragile, even as Trump just cleared ~82,000 H200 shipments at a 25% tax. The export-control conversation just got way harder to defend.

First domain-specific frontier model from OpenAI — a Life Sciences reasoning system available via ChatGPT, Codex, and the API for vetted U.S. enterprise customers (with explicit bioweapon-risk gates). On Dyno Therapeutics' independent eval, best-of-ten outputs scored above the 95th percentile of human experts on RNA prediction. Launch partners: Amgen, Moderna, Thermo Fisher, Allen Institute, Los Alamos. Market reaction: Recursion and Schrodinger each fell more than 5%, IQVIA -3 to 3.5%, Charles River -2.6%.

Why it matters: OpenAI is moving from 'general assistant' to 'trusted scientific steward,' and the first wave of preclinical CROs and computational drug-discovery shops are getting repriced in real time.