OpenAI VP Science Kevin Weil shared that he’s launching ChatGPT 26, a program to support young people using frontier AI for science. The program will host selected students at OpenAI HQ, give them access to the latest tech, and provide $10K cash grants. He mentioned meeting a young astronomer who used AI to identify 1.5 million new celestial objects, earning a job offer and a fighter jet ride from NASA as a signing bonus. https://x.com/kevinweil/status/2036095876628693168
Linear Head of Product Nan Yu highlighted how Codex noticed a line in his prompt that obliquely referenced a feature behind a feature flag elsewhere in the app — something he believes most human reviewers would miss. https://x.com/thenanyu/status/2036095568733143258
Anthropic Researcher Alex Albert recommended reading a guest post by theoretical physicist Matthew Schwartz about AI helping science. He found Opus 4.5 to be roughly the level of a second-year grad student and it helped accelerate his research by 10x. https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/2036232980059062550
Anthropic AI’s Thariq announced that Claude Code can now control your computer, noting they acquired a computer use company and shipped the feature just 4 weeks later. https://x.com/trq212/status/2036302910498173034
Box CEO Aaron Levie wrote a comprehensive thread on computer use and code-writing as the ultimate primitives for AI agents. He argues most knowledge work requires hopping between multiple applications and working with data in workflows, so agents need to traverse these systems to automate real enterprise work. He acknowledges security, permissions, and access control challenges ahead, noting this will be uncomfortable for some incumbents while welcoming for tools that have seamless APIs. https://x.com/levie/status/2036290915950797314
Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan shared that he used GStack (YC’s new AI coding tool) to get the YC internal Bookface codebase running in Conductor — a 1.84M line codebase with 14 years of technical debt that he originally built in 2013. He noted that GStack works great for solo devs and new projects, but the skills transfer to giant codebases too. https://x.com/garrytan/status/2036330296308802012
OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger (the CLAW himself) posted that CodexBar 0.19.0 is out with Alibaba Coding Plan support, subscription history charts, and big Claude stability improvements. He also noted that most PRs he reviews have issues found by Codex, and most folks send too localized, small fixes that would make projects unmaintainable. https://x.com/steipete/status/2036252448399171717
Every CEO Dan Shipper commented that the future is “vibe coding” — if you can vibe code it, you can vibe fix it, but you can’t always vibe fix it quickly. https://x.com/danshipper/status/2036146776319687644
Roblox Product Lead Peter Yang noted it’s incredible to see Anthropic ship basically everyday, calling it the bar for what AI native development looks like. He also shared advice for a friend whose high schooler is getting rejected from colleges: gatekeepers can’t stop you if you just persist in building something people want. https://x.com/petergyang/status/2036212646962434395
Replit CEO Amjad Masad shared a viral TSA wait time app built on Replit. https://x.com/amasad/status/2036272008158433564
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced he’s leaving the Helion board as Helion and OpenAI start exploring working together at significant scale. He remains excited about a future with abundant energy. https://x.com/sama/status/2036137695605563682
VC Matt Turck observed it’ll be hard to explain to future generations that there was a time, before Claude Code, when people with an idea would sometimes spend years looking for a “technical co-founder.” https://x.com/mattturck/status/2036182407779365309
Google Labs announced that after exploring virtual try-on with their experimental app Doppl, the technology is now available across Google product listings and image results. The Doppl app will shut down April 30, 2026. https://x.com/GoogleLabs/status/2036188820128071786
Anthropic’s Claude announced that mobile app users can now assign tasks from their phone and come back to finished work on their computer, with features like scanning email every morning or pulling reports every Friday. https://x.com/claudeai/status/2036195797881028970
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