Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest generally available AI model focused on advanced software engineering. The model shows improvements in handling complex coding tasks with less supervision, enhanced vision capabilities, and better instruction following, while introducing a new tokenizer that increases token usage by 1.0-1.35× depending on content type.
April 16, 2026
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, the latest version of its flagship Opus family designed for long-running, asynchronous agent tasks. The model features a 1 million token context window and costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, a new model that the company says is 'broadly less capable' than its most powerful offering, Claude Mythos Preview. The model includes automated safeguards that detect and block prohibited or high-risk cybersecurity requests.
Anthropic released Python SDK v0.96.0 on April 16, 2026, adding support for Claude Opus 4-7, a new flagship model. The update introduces token budgets for cost management and user profiles for personalized interactions.
Alibaba has released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, the first open-weight model in the Qwen3.6 series. The model features 35B total parameters with 3B activated, a native 262K context window extensible to 1.01M tokens, and achieves 73.4% on SWE-bench Verified using 256 experts with 8 activated per token.
Character.AI has launched Books mode, a structured roleplay feature that lets users interact with over 20 classic public domain titles including Alice in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice, and Dracula. The feature includes book arc mode that follows original narratives and off-script mode for free interaction.
Canva released AI 2.0 today, rolling out to the first one million users who access its homepage. The update introduces a unified conversational interface that allows users to generate and edit designs through text prompts, with the platform claiming users can create "multi-channel campaign plans" and execute them entirely through natural language descriptions.
Canva has released Canva AI 2.0, an agentic assistant that automatically calls design tools based on text prompts and creates editable layered designs. The update includes integrations with Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, and Zoom for context building, plus web research and task scheduling capabilities.
OpenAI has added native sandbox execution and governance controls to its Agents SDK, allowing enterprises to deploy AI agents with isolated compute environments and credential separation. The SDK now supports major cloud storage providers including AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, and Cloudflare R2, with built-in integrations for sandbox providers like E2B, Modal, Blaxel, and Vercel.
Opera is extending its MCP-compatible browser connector feature to Opera One and Opera GX, making it available beyond the subscription-based Opera Neon browser. The feature allows AI assistants including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to access browser tabs, read page content, and take screenshots during live browsing sessions.
Tencent has released HY-World 2.0, an open-source multi-modal world model that generates navigable 3D environments from text prompts, single images, multi-view images, or video. The model produces editable 3D assets including meshes and 3D Gaussian Splattings that can be directly imported into game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.
One week after Anthropic launched Project Glasswing to let 50+ organizations test its Claude Mythos vulnerability-finding model, the actual CVE count remains unknown. VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity found approximately 40 CVEs credited to Anthropic or affiliated researchers since February, but only one—CVE-2026-4747 in FreeBSD—can be directly tied to Glasswing.
GitHub Copilot customers are experiencing rate limits lasting up to 181 hours after the company fixed a token counting bug that had been undercharging for usage of newer models including Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4. GitHub has suspended Pro free trials and removed Anthropic's Opus 4.6 Fast model from Pro+ tiers.