5 November 2026
Cat Wu, a product leader on Anthropic's Claude Code, joins OpenAI
First reported
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- Cat Wu, who led product for Anthropic's Claude Code coding tool, is moving to OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.
- At OpenAI she will run product management for what the company calls its Core Products team.
- She says she wants to build AI agents that take routine work off users' hands while keeping people in control.
Our read
Only 1 of 30 newsletters, Latent Space, covered this move, which was first reported on 2026-11-04. Our archive has three earlier Claude Code stories, the most recent from 2026-11-02 on rules to stop the tool cloning specific games.
Earlier on this story
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Cat Wu's departure from Anthropic and move to OpenAI Core Products
Reported by The Decoder, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, OpenAI