It's Wednesday, April 22nd: This week, builders can spin up entire campaigns from a single prompt with Canva AI 2.0, turn a codebase or a brief into pitch-ready visuals with Claude Design, and run 1T-parameter coding agents through Cloudflare with Kimi K2.6.
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In Today’s Top Tools, we spotlight some of the most innovative, creative AI apps that we recommend adding to your stack.
✨ Canva AI 2.0 Turns One Prompt Into a Full Campaign
Canva’s new AI 2.0 (released April 16) turns the design app into a conversational workspace – describe what you want, get editable decks, social posts, and full multichannel campaigns back in one shot. With 265 million monthly users already on Canva, this is one of the biggest single-day product launches in the design space this year.
The structure of Canva 2.0 consists of four parts:
Conversational Design: natural-language prompts become fully editable outputs in one shot
Agentic Orchestration: one instruction coordinates multi-step goals like "build the launch campaign across every channel"
Object-Based Intelligence: edit a single element without regenerating the whole file
Living Memory: learns your style and brand over time, updates designs automatically as brand imagery change
Canva now connects to Slack, Notion, Zoom, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar. Plus, its proprietary models run "up to seven times faster and 30 times cheaper than comparable frontier alternatives," according to the company. That pricing position, plus owning its own models and infrastructure, is what COO Cliff Obrecht pointed to when he said, "If we're not going to disrupt ourselves, then we're going to be disrupted."
Canva AI 2.0 is a research preview rolling out to the first one million users who spot it on the Canva homepage, with broader availability coming in the next few weeks.
🎨 Claude Design Turns Ideas Into Pitch-Ready Visuals
On April 17, Anthropic Labs shipped Claude Design – a long-awaited feature by users. Hand it a prompt, a codebase, or a brief and it returns prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, or full design systems. All the while, Claude Opus 4.7 is running under the hood and Canva’s Design Engine makes the rendering clean.
With Claude Design, you can now:
Export to PDF, URL, PPTX, or push straight into Canva for team editing
Upload your codebase or existing design files and the tool applies your brand automatically
Iterate through natural-language refinements or direct element edits
Claude Design is in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. The product runs on Claude Opus 4.7 and uses Canva's Design Engine to render visual output.
🛠️ Kimi K2.6 Lands on Cloudflare with 1T-Parameter Agentic Coding
Moonshot is the Chinese AI lab behind Kimi, and on April 20 their newest coding model landed on Cloudflare's developer platform. It's one of the strongest non-American coding models available right now, it scores in the same range as GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on the benchmarks developers actually care about, and you can call it from any app built on Cloudflare with essentially no setup.
Kimi K2.6 is designed for agentic workloads that used to require heavy orchestration:
Agent swarm orchestration with 300 sub-agents running 4,000 coordinated steps
Coding-driven design: prompts turn directly into production interfaces
Vision input for multi-modal tasks
Configurable thinking and reasoning mode
Multi-turn tool calling
Benchmarks
The model scores competitively against GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on specialized tests: BrowseComp (83.2), SWE-Bench Verified (80.2), and Terminal-Bench 2.0 (66.7).
How to Use It
The model ID is @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6. You can call it three ways:
Workers AI binding from inside a Cloudflare Worker
REST API via
/ai/runOpenAI-compatible endpoint at
/v1/chat/completions
Full observability and caching are available through AI Gateway. You can also find pricing details on the Workers AI pricing page.
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In this section, we feature a few standout opportunities leading AI companies, non-profits, and other organizations. Each role is selected for impact and relevance to our community.
🔬 Work at a Lab / AI Safety
Roles at frontier labs, safety organizations, and research institutions
RESEARCH ENGINEER / SCIENTIST, ALIGNMENT SCIENCE — Anthropic | San Francisco, CA (Competitive Salary + Equity)
RESEARCH ENGINEER, INTERPRETABILITY — Anthropic | San Francisco, CA (Competitive Salary + Equity)
MACHINE LEARNING SYSTEMS ENGINEER, RL ENGINEERING — Anthropic | San Francisco / New York / Seattle (Competitive Salary + Equity)
ANTHROPIC FELLOWS PROGRAM (AI SAFETY) — Anthropic | Remote (US / UK / CA) ($3,850/week stipend + $15k/month compute)
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP — Pivotal Research | London, UK (Paid Fellowship)
🚀 Work in Industry
Roles at funded AI startups and private companies
AI ENGINEERING LEAD — Aden | San Francisco, CA or Remote ($250K–$350K + 1.00%–2.50% Equity)
AI ENGINEER, QUALITY — Fieldguide | San Francisco or Remote (USA) ($170K–$220K + Equity)
FORWARD DEPLOYED ML ENGINEER — Triomics | New York, NY ($170K–$190K + Equity)
MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER, PHYSICAL AI — Encord | San Francisco, CA ($150K–$200K + Equity)
AI PRODUCT ENGINEER — CoLoop | London, England (£90K–£130K GBP + Equity)
🏛️ Work in AI Policy / Governance
Roles in government, think tanks, NGOs, and policy organizations
POLICY ADVISOR, COALITIONS — Encode | Washington, DC metro area (Competitive Salary)
AI SCIENCE ADVISOR, CA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES — California Council on Science and Technology | Sacramento, CA (Competitive Salary)
CAST FELLOWSHIP (AI SECURITY / POLICY) — RAND Corporation | RAND Offices, Multi-location (Competitive Stipend)
HORIZON FELLOWSHIP (EMERGING TECH POLICY) — Horizon Institute for Public Service | Washington, DC (Paid Fellowship)
TECHNOLOGIST-IN-RESIDENCE FELLOWSHIP — Council on Foreign Relations | CFR Offices (Paid Fellowship)
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