Friday, April 24, 2026 — Wolf Digest

What this episode covers

Audio briefing for Friday, April 24, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) GPT-5.5 launch: frontier model + Codex superapp (OpenAI) — OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, positioned as "a new class of intelligence for real work" and rolled out across ChatGPT and the Codex app, with API access held back pending additional safeguards. (2) DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash — largest open-weights model ever, aggressive pricing — DeepSeek ended its five-month silence since V3.2 Speciale with two preview models in the V4 series, both MIT-licensed, both 1-million-token context, both mixture-of-experts. (3) What We Learned Building Cloud Agents — Cognition published a long follow-up to its earlier posts on multi-agent patterns, this time dissecting the infrastructure demands of cloud-based software engineering agents. (4) UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling — UniT, the top-voted paper on Hugging Face Daily Papers for April 24, tackles one of the core bottlenecks in humanoid foundation models: the kinematic mismatch that makes massive egocentric human video data hard to use… Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-24.html

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