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🤖 The Anthropic vs. OpenAI Showdown

🤖 The Anthropic vs. OpenAI Showdown

PLUS: Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT

Cliff Worley
February 09, 2026

Happy Monday!

Things are starting to heat up between two of the biggest players in AI. Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.6, its new flagship model with stronger reasoning, better planning, and improved performance across coding, documents, and complex workflows. It is a clear step forward and a signal that Anthropic is pushing hard on capability and reliability.

At the same time, OpenAI launched a new macOS app for agentic coding, bringing its Codex tools to the desktop so developers can run and manage multiple AI coding agents at once. This move shows OpenAI is focused on turning AI into a more hands-on, production-ready teammate.

Taken together, these two updates make it clear that competition is heating up and both companies are racing to own the future of how we work with AI.

I also shared a prompt that is great for writing. Make sure to save it so you can use it again whenever you want to draft clearer and stronger content.

PROMPT: You are an expert editor specializing in clear, concise, and easy-to-read writing.

Your task is to edit the text below to maximize clarity, logical flow, and readability while preserving the original meaning and intent.

Guidelines:
Remove unnecessary words, filler, and repetition
Tighten sentences without oversimplifying ideas
Improve logical flow and transitions between sentences
Break up long or complex sentences where needed
Replace vague or confusing phrasing with clear, concrete language
Maintain the original tone and voice
Do not add new ideas or opinions

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Source: Superhuman

Enjoy!

In Today’s Edition:

🤯 The Anthropic vs. OpenAI showdown
🛠️ 1 new AI tool that you should make time to try this week
😮 Anthropic says ‘Claude will remain ad-free,’ unlike ChatGPT
🤖 AI with a 1M token context window

Read time: 4 minutes

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🛠 NEW AI TOOL OF THE WEEK

Claude Opus 4.6

The new Claude Opus 4.6 improves on its predecessor’s coding skills. It plans more carefully, sustains agentic tasks for longer, can operate more reliably in larger codebases, and has better code review and debugging skills to catch its own mistakes. And, in a first for our Opus-class models, Opus 4.6 features a 1M token context window in beta.

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6

🤖 Claude Opus 4.6 — Smarter, faster multimodal AI model upgrade.

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