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🎨 Anthropic launches Claude Design to challenge Figma

📺 Reed Hastings is leaving Netflix after 29 years

🧬 OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research

💻 MacBook Neo sells out for April amid high demand

🧠 Physical Intelligence says its robot brain learns untaught tasks

✂️ New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone

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• Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a new product that lets users create visual designs, interactive prototypes, and slide decks through text prompts, directly competing with Figma, Adobe, and Canva.
• The tool is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, released the same day, which supports images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge and scored 98.5% on XBOW's visual-acuity benchmark versus 54.5% for its predecessor.
• Anthropic's chief product officer Mike Krieger resigned from Figma's board on April 14, just days before the launch, complicating a partnership where Figma had recently built features around Claude Code integration.

• Reed Hastings, who co-founded Netflix and served as its chairman, is leaving the company's board when his term expires in June after spending 29 years building the streaming giant.
• Hastings said he will focus on "philanthropy and other pursuits," and in a statement he highlighted member joy and building a culture that others could inherit and improve.
• Netflix reported $12.25 billion in first-quarter revenue, a 16.2% increase from last year, and said it plans to expand into new areas including generative AI.

• OpenAI has released an early version of GPT-Rosalind, a new AI model designed to help researchers speed up the process of discovering new drugs and turning scientific studies into patient treatments.
• The model is built for life sciences research, including analyzing large volumes of data, and is available as a research preview to select business customers like Amgen, Moderna, and the Allen Institute.
• OpenAI joins a growing number of tech companies trying to show that AI can lead to scientific breakthroughs, with GPT-Rosalind representing its first dedicated push into health-care and drug discovery.

• Apple's MacBook Neo has completely sold out for April deliveries, with new orders from the company's website now showing estimated ship dates starting in early May.
• More than a month after its March 11 release, the $599 laptop continues to sell faster than Apple can produce it, and CEO Tim Cook called it the best Mac launch week ever for first-time buyers.
• Retailers like Amazon and Walmart still have some MacBook Neo stock available sooner than Apple, with Amazon offering a 30-day low price of $589.99 and Walmart shipping select colors overnight.

• Physical Intelligence published research showing its new model, called π0.7, can direct robots to perform tasks they were never explicitly trained on, a result the company's own researchers say surprised them.
• In one test, π0.7 figured out how to use an air fryer despite having only two loosely related episodes in its training data, and after step-by-step verbal coaching it successfully cooked a sweet potato.
• The startup has raised over $1 billion at a $5.6 billion valuation and is reportedly in talks for a new round that would nearly double that figure to $11 billion.

• A Chinese research ship has tested a new deep-sea device that can cut through submarine data cables at depths of up to 13,123 feet, raising security concerns about undersea infrastructure.
• The device relies on an electro-hydrostatic actuator that powers a diamond-coated grinding wheel strong enough to slice cables armored with layers of steel, rubber, and polymer.
• Chinese military and civilian organizations have filed multiple patents for cable-cutting tools in recent years, while Chinese-registered ships have been linked to damage to subsea cables worldwide.

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