The Neural Daily 2026-04-26: SusHi Tech and Thinking Images

Japan moves to reclaim its tech crown at the SusHi Tech Tokyo summit while OpenAI tries to win back developers with an open-source Privacy Filter and the "visual reasoning" of GPT-Image-2. We pull back the curtain on Anthropic’s secret agent experiments and OpenAI’s "Spud" to see if the autonomous office is a dream or a high-speed wreck waiting to happen. From sovereign AI doctrines to the rise of the "stupidity tax," the digital neighborhood is getting a lot more expensive—and the agents are officially negotiating behind your back.