Dwarkesh's Patel interview with Jensen Huang definitely got a lot of chatter on X. Opus 4.7 release was received well with updated tips for getting more out of it by Boris Cherny. Anthropic continues to push out continious updates but OpenAI isn't sitting still with an updated Codex desktop app. swyx's interview with Simon Last and Sarah Sach of Notion about Notion AI is also worth listening to
Very happy to see members of Alibaba Cloud joining the Telegram group and introducing themselves. Hopefully other hyperscalers will also join and introduce themselves and in the future I hope that the model researchers themselves can participate in the discussion
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The following messages were posted on the 'All Things AI' Telegram group from Sunday 12th Apr 2026 to Saturday 18th Apr 2026
Elon Musk states xAI's Grok will approach Claude Opus 4.6 level by May and match or exceed it by June
Elon Musk replied to a post about the upcoming Grok Build, predicting it will get close to Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 performance by May and match or possibly exceed it by Jun
via Yat Siu where he linked to a new feature from Telegram Bot's platform which would unlock complex agentic flows and AI-powered use cases.
https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#bot-to-bot-communication
Coop also responded that his favorite recent feature of TG is threads and streaming text, really allowing for a native agentic experience in TG compared to slack/whatsapp/etc.
Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, adding AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users
Claude now works across all three major Office apps
Anthropic already offered Claude add-ins for Excel and PowerPoint. Now the company is rounding out its Microsoft Office integration with a Word add-in.
Flurry of messages from various group members related to their experiences on burning through tokens and hitting usage limits on their subscription plans with the consensus generally forming that OpenAI more generous with their plans relative to Anthropic. Encourage newsletter readers to read this directly via the telegram group
We launched Eddie AI v3 today!
For the past few months we’ve been quietly working on something we’re really excited about.
It began with an idea: what if you could finish a shoot day, send Eddie your footage, and wake up to a rough cut?
Today, that idea is reality. Eddie v3 is live.
The headline feature is Night Shift: text Eddie a link to your footage in Frame.io, Google Drive, or Dropbox - literally just send it to +1 650 444 9211 and by 8am the next morning you've got a rough cut, logs, and organized media ready to open in Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut.
It also handles B-roll placement for docu-style projects now with interview soundbites, story structure, and B-roll sequences assembled automatically.
We built Night Shift because the best time to process footage is when nobody’s awake to watch the progress bar.
Get started by texting Eddie a hello: +1 650 444 9211
Or download Eddie AI > New Project > Show All Modes > Night Shift
For those going to NAB, text Eddie NAB2026 to get a link to our party with Reddit Post Pro.
Eddie AI | The Assistant Video Editor for Pros
Eddie is the AI assistant video editor trusted by 40,000+ video professionals. Import interviews and chat with Eddie to get rough cuts and edits in seconds. Then export to MP4, Adobe, FCP, and DaVinci Resolve.
Various news about updates in Claude Code
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From Felix Rieseberg of Anthropic
We're launching a ~ new ~ version of Claude Code in the desktop app. It's been redesigned from the ground up for parallel work and is a lot faster. Some of the new features: An integrated terminal, in-app file editing, a rebuilt diff viewer, side chats, SSH connections - and a large amount of little quality of life.
It's been my main way to use Claude Code for the last few weeks.
It's been my main way to use Claude Code for the last few weeks.
Now in research preview: routines in Claude Code.
Configure a routine once (a prompt, a repo, and your connectors), and it can run on a schedule, from an API call, or in response to an event.
Routines run on our web infrastructure, so you don't have to keep your laptop open.
Automate work with routines - Claude Code Docs
Put Claude Code on autopilot. Define routines that run on a schedule, trigger on API calls, or react to GitHub events from Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure.
Google just shipped "Skills" for Gemini in Chrome — reusable AI workflows that run across any webpage with one click.
Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome
Skills in Chrome let you discover, save and remix AI workflows - and repeat them instantly.
Uber's AI Coding Tools Exhaust 2026 Budget Early
In an interview, Uber's CTO Neppalli Naga said surging adoption among engineers—now at 63% using Claude Code—pushed costs beyond projections, forcing a budget rethink. Uber's 95% of engineers rely on AI monthly, with an internal agent generating 1,800 code changes weekly, amid a shift to usage-based billing and compute shortages. Tech leaders reacted with quips about unchecked spending and advice on open-source alternatives and cost controls.
“I'm back to the drawing board, because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already,” Neppalli Naga said.
Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets
Uber’s surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026, according to chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli...
The adoption curve tells you everything about what happened. In December 2024, 32% of Uber's
Various commentary on Allbirds selling its IP for US $39 Million, changing its name to NewBird AI, getting a line of credit for US$ 50 million and repositioning itself as a renter of compute and its stock price going up 900%
Allbirds doesn't own a single GPU. They agreed to sell the actual shoe business to
swyx aka Shawn Wang of Latent Space/AI Engineer/Cognition fame with a banger of a 1 hr 25 min podcast with Simon Last co-founder of Notion and Sarah Sachs, Head of AI at Notion.
Notion has rebuilt Notion AI 5 times. This is the first time Simon has told the entire story.
I've been trying to do this interview for ~3 years. Notion is one of the top ~3? knowledge work tools in the world, crossing 100M users in 2024 and now shipping the AI productivity suite that Ivan Zhao
wants to be "steel and steam for organizations" — the backbone of a new Industrial Revolution of Infinite Minds that will change the world.
Notion's Token Town: 5 Rebuilds, 100+ Tools, MCP vs CLIs and the Software Factory Future - Simon Last & Sarah Sachs of Notion
Notion's cofounder and head of AI peel back the curtains to talk about finally shipping the Knowledge Work AI agents the world has been waiting for.
via Thariq of Anthropic
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Today we’re rolling out a new update to /usage to help you understand your usage with Claude Code, this was informed by a number of conversations with customers. There’s a surprising amount of detail here that can really shape your experience with Claude Code and almost all of it comes from managing your context window.
Nvidia's Jensen Huang Defends AI Chip Dominance in a relatively tense Interview with Dwarkesh Patel
Huang told Dwarkesh Patel that Google's TPUs and Amazon's Trainium chips owe their growth almost entirely to Anthropic, calling it a unique case rather than a broader trend. He highlighted Nvidia's advantages in CUDA programmability, a massive GPU ecosystem, and top benchmark results, while regretting past misses on early investments in firms like Anthropic and OpenAI—now backed by billions from Nvidia. On China, Huang warned that export bans could boost local rivals like Huawei, urging sales of downgraded chips to keep global developers on Nvidia's platform. Listeners praised the host's tough questions and Huang's candid takes on supply chains, energy bottlenecks, and Nvidia's long-term edge.
0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains?
0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute?
0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler?
0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China?
1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia
Dwarkesh: Wouldn’t selling Nvidia chips to China enable them to train models like Claude Mythos with cyber offensive capabilities that would be threats to American companies and national security?
Jensen:
After a long technical back and forth about what the right accelerator for AI looks like (see full episode), Jensen lays down the
Credit first: these were the best questions Jensen's been asked in a long-form sit-down. Dwarkesh didn't lob softballs. He pressed on commoditization, ASIC economics, margin compression, customer concentration. Real questions.
But the
0:00:00 – Is Nvidia’s biggest moat its grip on scarce supply chains?
0:16:25 – Will TPUs break Nvidia’s hold on AI compute?
0:41:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia become a hyperscaler?
0:57:36 – Should we be selling AI chips to China?
1:35:06 – Why doesn’t Nvidia
Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities”
https://decrypt.co/364509/claude-anthropic-government-id-kyc-privacy
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude
Claude Opus 4.7 is available today on http://claude.ai, the Claude Platform, and all major cloud platforms.
It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.
You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.
Pricing remains the same as Opus 4.6: $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.7
Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks.
We're launching it with 50% off for a limited time. Enjoy!
Factory raises $150M Series C at $1.5B valuation. Their product Droid is model-agnostic, interface-agnostic and IMHO has one of the best if not the best context management with awesome compatability with many of Claude Code features such as skills, sub-agents, plugins, hooks etc
This puts our valuation at $1.5B and will accelerate our
"Harry, I am trying to put 10% of my fund into Matan and Factory."
When you get that message. You stop what you are doing. Cancel everything and arrange a walk.
About 5 mins into the walk I
Boris Cherny with some tips to get more out of 4.7 and announcement from Thariq about updated mechanisms for devs to keep up wiht Claude Code information
First, we’re introducing @ClaudeDevs, the official channel to follow for all updates on Claude Code and the Claude platform.
Follow for changelogs, API releases, community updates, and deep dives.
Best practices for using Claude Opus 4.7 with Claude Code | Claude
Learn how to use recalibrated effort levels, adaptive thinking, and new defaults to optimize your Claude Code setup with Opus 4.7.
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more
https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/
AI labs are buying Slack, Jira, and email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
via Leo Li from Alibaba Cloud
GM everyone, I’m Leo from Alibaba Cloud, taking care of AI Native and Web3 sectors. Here is my Linkedln : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheungli
Alibaba Cloud is leading the charge as the world’s most prominent cloud service provider, and this year, we’ve made significant strides to become a top AI+Cloud provider globally. We’re planning to share some exciting news by the end of April, and you’ll be among the first to hear about it worldwide, so stay tuned!
Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
My tips for getting the best results out of Claude Design! I’m on the verticals team at Anthropic which means I serve 7 different products. Claude Design makes it possible!1. Set up your design system and your core screens. An hour of setup and refinement here is worth it
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs
Today, we're launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.
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Fantasy landscapes set in China, Chinese temple, Asian anime like, Asian anime film drawings::1.5, Japanese anime film drawings::1.7, Satoshi Imamoto's anime::1.3, grand scale, ancient Chinese bronzes, cyber Chinese cities::-1 Japanese anime style vivid and flat coloring::1.6 Japanese anime style coloring with delicate line drawings::1.6 Clear shading