Google and OpenAI are making a run at Claude’s desktop moat, and Anthropic is making it easy

Google and OpenAI are aggressively entering the desktop AI space that Anthropic has dominated. Google shipped a native Mac Gemini app built in under 100 days, added AI features to Chrome, and is leveraging its Workspace bundle. OpenAI consolidated ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into a single superapp. Meanwhile, Anthropic had a rough week: mixed reviews for Opus 4.7 (users report the model skips reasoning steps, token costs rose), multiple outages, a controversial Claude Code redesign that burned through quotas, third-party access revocations, and a new identity verification requirement. A Fortune report suggests Anthropic quietly reduced default effort levels due to compute constraints, creating an opening for competitors to close the gap.