The day in AI

Friday 17 April 2026

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Launches and products

17 Apr 2026AnthropicClaude Design Claude Design, an Anthropic Labs product on Opus 4.7, makes designs, prototypes, slides and one-pagers with team design systems applied automatically.

People and teams

Bill PeeblesOpenAI → unknown. Left after three years as OpenAI shut down Sora (about $1M a day in compute, per TechCrunch) and refocused on enterprise AI and a 'superapp'.

Kevin WeilOpenAI → AI science startup (reported). OpenAI for Science was absorbed into other research teams as OpenAI cut 'side quests'; he left a day after GPT-Rosalind shipped. BI says he now runs a science startup seeking a $750M+ valuation.