OpenAI’s Superapp Takes Shape Inside Codex, Anthropic Drops Opus 4.7, OpenAI Enters Life Sciences
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 17th, 2026. OpenAI dropped a major Codex update that adds background computer use, parallel agents, an in-app browser, memory, image generation, and automations — with Codex’s head openly calling it “building the superapp out in the open” as the platform evolves from a coding agent into a unified AI command center. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, its new top publicly available model that jumps ahead of GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on agentic coding benchmarks — while still trailing the company’s own locked-away Mythos Preview, marking the…
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