April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews

April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

April 16, 2026 · 1h 59m

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This episode covers the latest AI news including major updates from OpenAI, Alibaba, and interviews with three guests discussing new technologies.

Hey ya’ll, Alex here with your weekly AI news catch up. It’s one of those Thursday’s where no matter how well I prep, the big AI labs are hell bent to show up before each other. Alibaba dropped Qwen 3.6 with Apache 2, confirming their commitment to Open Source, then Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 (not quite Mythos) and OpenAI followed with a huge Codex update that includes Computer Use among other things. The highlight of Computer User is the background usage, more on that below. This is all just from today! Previously in the week we had 2 incredible 3D world generators, Lyra 2.0 from Nvidia and HYWorld 2 from Tencent, Windsurf dropping 2.0 version with Devin integration and Google releasing a Gemini TTS , with over 90+ languages support and incredible emotions range, and Baidu open sources Ernie Image, rivaling Nano Banana. Today on the show we had 3 awesome guests, Theodor from Cognition joined to cover the new Windsurf, Kwindla is back on the show to talk about “the side project that escaped containment” Gradient-Bang, a multi agent, voice based space game and Trevor from Marimo joined to talk about pairing your agents with a Marimo notebook. Let’s dive in! 👇 ThursdAI…

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Host: Alex Volkov

Guests: Theodor, Kwindla, Trevor

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Organizations: Alibaba, OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Tencent, Google, Baidu

Products: Codex, Qwen 3.6, Claude Opus 4.7, Lyra 2.0, HYWorld 2, Windsurf 2.0, Gemini TTS, Ernie Image, Marimo notebook

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