Anthropic loses product lead Catherine Wu behind Claude Code to OpenAI

Catherine Wu, who led product for Claude Code at Anthropic, is joining OpenAI to run product management for "Core Products," OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux welcomed her with the quip "CatGPT." Wu said she wants to build agents that take work off users' plates while keeping them in control, and growth marketing manager Austin Lau is also moving from Anthropic to OpenAI. Anthropic has also recently lost skills and context engineer Thariq Shihipar and Anthony Morris, who built Claude Code Desktop, though neither has gone to OpenAI, at least not yet.