AI News for April 17, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Claude Opus 4.7 ships with Elo 1753, edging GPT-5.4 on most agentic benchmarks: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 to the public, confirming benchmarks that show it narrowly ahead of competitors.
[TOOLS] OpenAI overhauls Codex with background computer use, takes aim at Claude Code: OpenAI released a major Codex update that lets the coding agent see, click, and type on a user's Mac directly.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a biology-tuned reasoning model for drug discovery: OpenAI debuted GPT-Rosalind, a limited-access reasoning model purpose-built for life sciences.
[TOOLS] Canva AI 2.0 rebuilds the platform around a conversational agent layer: Canva launched AI 2.0 at its Canva Create event, rearchitecting the platform into an agentic system driven by natural-language prompts.
[RESEARCH] Physical Intelligence's π0.7 lets robots tackle tasks they were never trained on: Robotics startup Physical Intelligence published research on π0.7, a model the company says can direct robots to perform tasks outside their training data.
[RESEARCH] Alibaba drops Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, an open model that outdraws Claude Opus 4.7 on some tests: Alibaba released Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters, available as a 20.9GB quantized GGUF that runs on consumer hardware.
[NEWS] Factory hits $1.5B valuation with $150M round to compete in enterprise AI coding: Factory, a startup building AI agents for enterprise engineering teams, raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation.
[RESEARCH] Nvidia's Lyra 2.0 generates 90-meter 3D worlds from a single photo for robot training: Nvidia researchers unveiled Lyra 2.0, a system that turns a single photograph into a coherent 3D environment spanning roughly 90 meters.
[NEWS] Salesforce launches Headless 360, exposing its entire platform to AI agents: Salesforce unveiled Headless 360 at its TDX conference, exposing every platform capability as an API, MCP tool, or CLI command so AI agents can operate the CRM without a browser.
[NEWS] EU proposes forcing Google to share search data with AI rivals: The European Union proposed measures that would open key Google search data to rival search engines and AI chatbots.

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