DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, April 17, 2026

Send us Fan MailDX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, April 17, 2026Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 with gains on advanced software engineering and a 1M-token context window. OpenAI fires back with a major Codex update that lets the agent operate Mac desktop apps, browse the web, and run in parallel. Google finally launches a native Gemini Mac app. Elon Musk's xAI turns Colossus into a cloud business, renting tens of thousands of GPUs to Cursor. Meta details a Capacity Efficiency agent platform that has already recovered hundreds of megawatts of power. Stellantis and Microsoft sign a five-year AI partnership. Salesforce declares a headless, API-first pivot at TDX. American Express acquires Sam Altman-backed expense startup Hyper. Resolve AI raises $40M at a $1.5B valuation, Wealth.com closes a $65M Series B led by Schwab, and InsightFinder lands $15M for AI-agent observability. And Manycore Tech debuts on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as the world's first publicly listed spatial intelligence company.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #ClaudeOpus #AgenticAI #DXToday