🤖 Anthropic drops "OpenClaw Killer"

PLUS: How to build beautiful animated websites with claude Code & Nano Banana 2

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Alvaro Cintas
March 20, 2026

Good Morning! Anthropic just dropped an "OpenClaw killer" called Claude Code Channels, letting you text your AI agent directly over Telegram and Discord to code for you on the go. Plus, I’ll show you how to build beautiful animated websites with Claude Code & Nano Banana 2.

Plus, in today’s AI newsletter:

  • Google Unveils AI-Led ‘Vibe Designing’ with Stitch

  • Anthropic Drops "OpenClaw Killer" with Claude Code Channels

  • Cursor Takes on OpenAI and Anthropic with Composer 2

  • Build Beautiful Animated Websites with Claude Code & Nano Banana 2

  • 4 new AI tools worth trying

AI TOOLS

Google has completely revamped Stitch, evolving it from a simple coding companion into a full-blown AI-native software design platform available on Google Labs. Instead of manually pushing pixels or wireframing, you just use natural language prompts to describe the exact feel and purpose of the app you want to build.

  • Features a new "infinite canvas" that seamlessly blends text, images, code, and UI components into a single workspace.

  • Includes a built-in design agent that understands your overall project context, suggests variations, and tracks different versions so you can experiment without losing progress.

  • Introduces voice-based controls, letting you literally talk to the AI to make real-time layout changes or brainstorm alternative interface options.

  • Integrates directly with development workflows, allowing you to export UI layouts straight into code through its MCP server, SDK, and AI Studio.

Vibe coding with tools like Cursor solved the blank page problem for developers, and now Stitch is doing the exact same thing for frontend design. By letting anyone generate high-fidelity UIs in minutes just by describing the user experience, it completely removes the friction between concept and execution. Whether you're a first-time founder or trying to rapidly build and integrate custom apps to help a small business scale, the barrier to launching a beautiful product just dropped to zero.

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AGENTIC AI

Anthropic just rolled out Claude Code Channels, fundamentally shifting how developers interact with AI by allowing you to hook up Claude Code directly to Telegram and Discord for asynchronous, 24/7 task execution.

  • Instead of the traditional "ask-and-wait" desktop chat window, you can now run a persistent background session and simply text Claude from your phone to execute code, run tests, or fix bugs.

  • It directly targets the appeal of the viral open-source framework OpenClaw, offering that same "always-on" messaging functionality but backed by Anthropic's enterprise-grade security and out-of-the-box ease of use.

  • The architecture relies on the open-source Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the ultra-fast Bun runtime to act as a two-way bridge between the AI model and your messaging apps.

  • Because it's built on MCP, the community doesn't have to wait for Anthropic to ship updates, developers can already start building their own custom connectors for Slack, WhatsApp, and more.

This is a massive shift from AI acting as a reactive "brain in a jar" to a proactive, asynchronous teammate. By internalizing the best features of the open-source agent movement, like mobile messaging and persistent, "always-on" availability. Anthropic is standardizing autonomous AI workers and making the viral, slightly risky "vibe coding" workflows of OpenClaw obsolete for the mainstream developer.

AI TOOLS

Cursor has released Composer 2, a highly efficient, code-specialized AI model built to match the performance of industry giants at a fraction of the cost.

  • Composer 2 is priced at just $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per output, massively undercutting Claude Opus 4.6 ($5.00/$25.00) and GPT-5.4 ($2.50/$15.00).

  • The model was trained exclusively on coding data and long-horizon tasks, allowing it to remain smaller and cheaper while excelling at software development (co-founder Aman Sanger noted it "won't help you do your taxes").

  • It scores a 61.3 on Cursor's internal CursorBench, a massive leap from its predecessor (44.2) and highly competitive with Claude Opus 4.6 (58.2) and GPT-5.4 Thinking (63.9).

  • Cursor is currently in talks for a new funding round at a $50 billion valuation after reportedly crossing $2 billion in annualized revenue.

Building its own model is a matter of strategic survival for Cursor. Right now, Cursor relies on third-party models from Anthropic and OpenAI while simultaneously competing with them for enterprise developer subscriptions. By deploying its own frontier-level, dirt-cheap model, Cursor protects its margins and ensures it isn't squeezed out by the very infrastructure providers it depends on.

HOW TO AI

🗂️ How to Build Beautiful Animated Websites with Claude Code & Nano Banana 2

In this tutorial, you will learn how to defeat the generic "AI slop" look and instantly generate custom, high-converting animated landing pages. By combining Nano Banana 2 for visuals and Claude Code for development, you can create a site with a massive "wow" factor without writing a single line of code.

🧰 Who is This For

  • Small business owners who want to boost web conversions and efficiency

  • Founders needing a premium-looking landing page to test a new business idea quickly

  • Anyone who wants to build stunning web experiences without paying for expensive frontend developers

STEP 1: Generate a Cinematic Starting Frame

Before touching any code, you need a visual foundation. So head over to Nano Banana 2 to create the base image for your hero section. Use your experience with detailed, cinematic prompts to dictate the exact camera type, lighting, and atmosphere you want. If you have reference layouts from sites like Dribbble or Pinterest, use them to guide the style.

Remember that the composition needs to work for a website, leave some "dead space" on one side for your headlines and buttons. Generate a few variations until you get a high-quality static image that perfectly matches your vision.

STEP 2: Animate the Image into a Subtle Video

Take your perfected starting image and run it through an AI video generator like Kling 3.0 or Veo. The key here is to keep it tasteful: prompt the AI for extremely slow and subtle motion (like gently moving smoke or slowly intensifying light). You have two main options for length. You can generate a 15-second video, which gives you more creative freedom but might stutter slightly when it restarts. Or, you can make a 5-second video and have Claude Code loop it automatically later.

Turn off any "enhance" features so you retain full control over the output. Download both the final subtle MP4 and your original static image.

STEP 3: Assemble the Site with Claude Code

Create a new folder on your computer, drop your video and image inside, and launch Claude Code in that directory.

Prompt the agent with clear instructions such as: "Create a landing page for my business. Use the MP4 file for an animated desktop hero section, but use the still image for mobile users so it loads fast. Spin up a dev server when finished." 

For even better results, you can ask Claude to use front-end design plugins like the UI/UX Pro Max skill, or paste in pre-built UI component prompts from libraries like 21st.dev to get exact button styles without endless back-and-forth iterating.

STEP 4: Deploy Your Site to the Web

Once Claude Code has spun up your localhost server and you love the result, it is time to push it live. First, create a free GitHub account and make a new repository. Copy the repo URL, go back to Claude Code, and type: "Commit and push our code to this new repo: [URL]". Claude will handle the upload. Once pushed, sign up for a free Vercel account using your GitHub credentials. Click "Add New Project," select the repository you just created, and hit "Deploy." In minutes, your animated, AI-generated website will be live on the internet!

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground.

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers.

Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers.

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M+ users, up 3x since January.

🚀 Stitch: Google’s tool that lets you design apps just by describing the vibe

🤝 MiniMax M2.7: A proprietary frontier model that literally helped build itself

📱 Dispatch: Control your Claude AI on your computer using your phone

🎥 Replit Animation: Turn text prompts into animated videos

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THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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- Dr. Alvaro Cintas