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Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

10:01 PM IST · April 17, 2026

Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

The gap between AI insiders and everyone elseis widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything fromfinance appstotalk shows, a certain shoe company justrebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says istoo powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too powerful to demo to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. On this episode of TechCrunch’sEquitypodcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what’s actually being built in AI infrastructure, who’s winning the enterprise battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, and more of the week’s headlines. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Subscribe to Equity onYouTube,Apple Podcasts,Overcast,Spotifyand all the casts. You also can follow Equity onXandThreads, at @EquityPod.

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Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

Anthropicannouncedon Friday that it’s launching Claude Design, a new experimental product that lets users create visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more using Claude. The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily. With Claude Design, users describe what they want, and Claude will create an initial version. From there, users can refine the visuals with direct edits or requests. For example, you could ask Claude to “prototype a serene mobile meditation app. It should have calming typography, subtle nature-inspired colors, and a clean layout.” You could then tweak the colors, the size of the typography, or ask Claude to add a dark mode toggle. While Claude Design may initially seem like it’s looking to compete with popular design app Canva, whichhas just expanded its own AI capabilities,Anthropic told TechCrunch that it’s intended to complement it rather than replace it. The company said its new product is built for people who aren’t starting from a design tool and need to get from an idea to something visual quickly. Once teams create presentation decks or prototypes, they can export them as PDFs, URLs, PPTX files, or send them to Canva. Once in Canva, they are fully editable and collaborative, Anthropic says. Claude Design can also apply a team’s design system to every project it creates so that the results are consistent with the company’s overall visual style. Anthropic says Claude Design is able to do this by reading a company’s codebase and design files. Additionally, teams can refine these components and maintain more than one design system. The new product is powered by Claude Opus 4.7 and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. The launch highlights Anthropic’s ongoing push into the enterprise and prosumer categories, as competition intensifies around AI workplace tools. In January, Anthropic rolled outClaude Cowork, an agentic assistant built for complex tasks. A few weeks later, the company broughtagentic plug-ins to Coworkthat are designed to automate specialized tasks within a company’s various departments. Today’s announcement comes a few days afterBloombergreported that VCs have been offering the company a preemptive funding round that wouldvalue it at $800 billion or more, which would almost match or even surpass its rival OpenAI. But so far, Anthropic isn’t interested in the latest offers, according to the report.

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Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

The gap between AI insiders and everyone elseis widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything fromfinance appstotalk shows, a certain shoe company justrebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says istoo powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too powerful to demo to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. On this episode of TechCrunch’sEquitypodcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into what’s actually being built in AI infrastructure, who’s winning the enterprise battle between OpenAI and Anthropic, and more of the week’s headlines. Listen to the full episode to hear about: Subscribe to Equity onYouTube,Apple Podcasts,Overcast,Spotifyand all the casts. You also can follow Equity onXandThreads, at @EquityPod.

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Wipro’s ₹15,000 Crore Buyback Exposes Indian IT’s R&D Gap

Wipro’s ₹15,000 Crore Buyback Exposes Indian IT’s R&D Gap

₹15,000 crore payout raises debate on capital use amid weak growth and shifting industry economics.

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Canva Introduces Canva AI 2.0, Brings Agentic Capabilities and Memory to Perform Design Tasks

Canva Introduces Canva AI 2.0, Brings Agentic Capabilities and Memory to Perform Design Tasks

Canva introduced a major upgrade to its artificial intelligence (AI) suite on Thursday. Dubbed Canva AI 2.0, the new suite brings an agentic system that understands layered design and can complete complex tasks using a conversational interface. The suite was first previewed at the Canva Create 2026 event, which was hosted at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, California. New features in the suite include multi-channel campaign design, memory, web research, task scheduling, and an improved overall experience.

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