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7 updates · 3 appsApril 18, 2026

Claude launches new design tool for creating visuals with AI

OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots. Kevin Weil, who led the com… AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which…

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Claude

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Expanded summary · Claude

You can now use a new product called Claude Design to create visual things like designs, prototypes, and slides.

Claude launched a new design tool.

Expanded summary · Claude

It lets you build code-powered prototypes using your voice, video, and built-in AI.

Frontier design: Anyone can build code-powered prototypes with voice, video, shaders, 3D and built-in AI. 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.

Over the coming weeks, we'll make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design, so you can connect it to…

Over the coming weeks, we'll make it easier to build integrations with Claude Design, so you can connect it to more of the tools your team already uses.

Original reportingIntroducing Claude Design by Anthropic LabsRead original

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You can ask Claude to help you design things, like a calming mobile meditation app with specific colors and layout.

Claude launched a new design tool.

ChatGPT

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Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed 'side quests' TechCrunch

Kevin Weil, who led the company’s science research initiative, and Bill Peebles, the researcher behind AI video tool Sora, both announced their departures on Fri…

Original reportingKevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed 'side quests' | TechCrunchRead original

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Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere? TechCrunch

OpenAI is losing two of the architects of its most ambitious moonshots.

Kevin Weil, who led the com…

Original reportingAre we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere? | TechCrunchRead original

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

Weil’s departure comes a day after his team released GPT-Rosalind , a new model to accelerate life sciences research and drug discovery.

Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s former chief product officer who was recently tapped to build a new AI workspace for scientists, Prism, is leaving the company, WIRED has confirmed. Weil was previously an early executive leading product at Instagram.

Weil, who joined OpenAI in June 2024, announced last September that he would be starting a new initiative inside of the company called OpenAI for Science.

Original reportingOpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the CompanyRead original

Cursor

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AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2 billion in fresh capital, according to four sources familiar with the matter.

Battery Ventures, a new investor, may also participate in the financing, according to two sources.

Strategic investor Nvidia is also expected to write a check, one person said.

Original reportingSources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges | TechCrunchRead original