April 20, 2026

A quiet day across AI apps

Full archive memo · 1 app section.

No major AI app updates today, but FatherPhi explored practical ChatGPT uses.

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OpenAI has been all over the news recently, whether that news is about acquisitions , competition with Anthropic , or bigger debates about AI’s impact on society .

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast , Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to round up all the latest OpenAI news.

First, with the team behind personal finance startup Hiro, the company may be hoping to come up with a product that has “more hooks than just a chatbot, and maybe something worth.