April 15, 2026
Today's Top Stories
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Opus 4.7 and an AI Design Tool Ship This Week — The Information reports Anthropic is readying Claude Opus 4.7 plus a new website-and-slides design tool for launch as soon as this week. Expected focus: longer-horizon autonomy, multi-agent coordination, stronger reasoning.
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Claude Code Routines Go Live — Anthropic shipped Routines as a research preview: saved Claude Code configs that run on Anthropic's cloud via schedule, HTTP, or GitHub triggers. No laptop required. Pro 5/day, Max 15, Team/Enterprise 25.
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Power Users Revolt Over Quiet "Effort" Nerf — Fortune, The Register, and VentureBeat detail growing backlash after Anthropic reduced Claude's default effort level to "medium" to save tokens. Boris Cherny confirmed the change; users say it wasn't disclosed.