🎨Anthropic rolls out Claude Design
Anthropic just launched Claude Design — a new tool that turns prompts, screenshots, and codebases into interactive prototypes, slide decks, and marketing collateral powered by the company's new Opus 4.7 vision model.
- —Claude reads users' codebases and existing mockups during setup to build a brand system that auto-applies to every future project
- —Users can refine designs through chat, inline comments, direct edits, or custom sliders Claude generates for spacing, color, and layout
- —Finished work can be handed off to Claude Code as a build-ready bundle or exported to Canva, PPTX, PDF, or standalone HTML
- —Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger resigned from Figma's board on April 14, three days before launch, amid rumors of a competing product
Why it matters: Every few weeks, an Anthropic launch shakes a new industry — and this time it is design. With Claude Design, Anthropic is closing the loop from first sketch to shipped product inside a single ecosystem. Add in Cowork, browser agents, and office integrations, and every layer of the software stack is moving under one umbrella.
💡The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases
The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature where team members share how they actually use AI in work and daily life.
- —Zach, AI Writer: Gave Claude his father's complete medication list and medical history, asking for a deep research report on drug interactions. Claude cited up-to-date journals and guidelines, listed dangerous interactions to raise with doctors, and organized everything into a clear action plan
- —Joey, Head of Partnerships: Connected Claude to Slack, Notion, calendars, and Granola for a daily interactive brief covering call prep, priority tasks, tool recommendations, and overnight activity recaps
Why it matters: AI's value isn't replacing professional judgment — it's helping ordinary people build structured understanding fast, whether for medical questions or daily schedule management.
🤓Run your own free coding agent on your laptop
Step-by-step guide to running a free local coding LLM using Ollama, integrated with Claude Code or Codex.
- —Step 1: Analyze your PC specs with Claude or ChatGPT to find the right Ollama coder model
- —Step 2: Browse the Ollama model library, pick the best-suited coder model, copy its launch command
- —Step 3: Open a terminal in your project folder, paste the command to download the model — Ollama drops you into Claude Code pointing at the local model
- —Step 4: In Ollama > Settings > Context, bump the default 4K to 32K or higher to avoid tool call drops
Why it matters: Local AI isn't a replacement for paid Claude Code or Codex — treat it as practice or basic debugging. It can also work as a cheap subagent wired under the paid version.
🚪Three OpenAI leaders exit as reshuffle continues
OpenAI lost three senior execs in one day: ex-CPO Kevin Weil, Sora lead Bill Peebles, and enterprise apps chief Srinivas Narayanan — marking a deepening of the company's strategic restructuring to kill "side quests" and focus on core products.
- —Kevin Weil's OpenAI for Science division is being decentralized into other teams, with the Prism app for scientists woven into Codex
- —Bill Peebles led Sora until OpenAI killed the video app last month over cost, calling its development the "honor and adventure of a lifetime"
- —Srinivas Narayanan ran OpenAI's enterprise apps for three years after 13 years at Facebook; he said on X he's heading to India to care for aging parents
- —Sam Altman wrote in a recent blog that OpenAI is "now a major platform, not a scrappy startup" and needs to "operate in a more predictable way"
Why it matters: Last month we covered OpenAI scrapping "side quests" to catch Anthropic — and a month in, the changes are certainly visible. Whether these departures are a result of that shake-up or personal movements, they are big ones, particularly Weil, who has been the face of science-related efforts at the company.