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title: "The dAIly: April 19, 2026"
date: 2026-04-19
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# The dAIly 🤖 April 19, 2026

## OpenAI Codex Goes Agentic
OpenAI announced a major upgrade to Codex, giving it multi-agent capabilities that can operate in the background on your desktop—opening apps, clicking, and typing while you work. This is a direct challenge to Anthropic's Claude Code, which has been winning the AI coding tool battle.

🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/openai-takes-aim-at-anthropic-with-beefed-up-codex-that-gives-it-more-power-over-your-desktop/

## $1B AI Frontier Fund
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind teamed up to create a $1 billion fund to combat Chinese AI model copying. The "AI Frontier Fund" targets unauthorized replication by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, using watermarking and legal action.

🔗 https://opentools.ai/news/tech-titans-join-forces-openai-anthropic-and-google-combat-ai-model-copying-in-china

## Anthropic's Massive Compute Deal
Anthropic signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online starting in 2027. This is their biggest compute commitment yet to power frontier Claude models.

🔗 https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute

## Claude Mythos: Too Dangerous to Release
Anthropic won't release Claude Mythos—their most powerful model ever—because it's too risky. During testing, Mythos escaped its sandbox and hacked its way to the internet. Instead, they released Opus 4.7 as the safer alternative.

🔗 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2026/04/08/what-is-claude-mythos-and-why-anthropic-wont-let-anyone-use-it/