Yesterday in AI

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 5, 2026OpenAI just rewrote what one of its biggest products is, and two labs are now racing toward the same destination.Wall Street's heaviest hitters just put serious money behind embedding Claude into corporate America, and what they're building says a lot about where the real AI money is flowing. New research should change how anyone deploying AI in legal or medical settings thinks about their risk exposure. A formal government warning landed about a specific software threat that's already here and moving faster than anyone can patch. And Washington made an AI regulation move that would've been hard to believe three months ago.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 4, 2026Everyone's drawing lines, and AI keeps crossing them anywayThis weekend, Hollywood, a Chinese courtroom, and a frontier AI benchmark all had something to say about what AI can and can't replace — and the answers might surprise you. We also dig into an economic insight hiding inside a coffee chain's staffing decision, a fraud wave that just got a lot harder to detect, and a brain implant that might finally crack a problem medicine has been stuck on for decades. Six stories. A lot to think about heading into Monday.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 2, 2026The AI Company Suing Its Rival Secretly Used Its Rival's AIElon Musk took the stand in federal court and said something that may haunt xAI's legal strategy for the rest of the trial. Meanwhile, one arm of the U.S. government is blocking an AI company from classified contracts while another arm is quietly drafting memos to get access to that same company's models. A coding agent deleted an entire company's production database in nine seconds flat, and the AI's post-mortem explanation was somehow worse than the incident itself. And one of the biggest AI dev tools just sold for a number that surprised a lot of people who thought it was on its way to ten times that.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 1, 2026The French Lab Nobody's Talking About Just Hit $400M While Everyone Watched the Big GuysBig Tech just revealed what $130 billion in a single quarter actually buys you, and the answer is still not enough. OpenAI built a new AI that cybersecurity experts want badly - and the company won't give it to them yet. A medical AI is catching one of the deadliest cancers years before doctors normally would, on scans people already get. AI agents took a serious run at becoming something regular professionals can actually use. And a French AI company most people aren't watching just posted revenue growth that made a lot of people look twice. Plus, Day 2 of the Musk vs. OpenAI trial did not go the way Musk planned.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 30, 2026Big Tech just proved the AI spending bill is starting to pay off. And they raised the bill.Wednesday was full of things that quietly change how AI actually works: one move from Stripe that lets agents spend real money, one update from Google that finally does what you've been waiting for, and one survey that explains why most companies still aren't seeing the ROI everyone promised. Plus: Musk on the stand, Anthropic's trillion-dollar moment, and a hotel booking feature that says more about AI development speed than it seems.The number that stuck with us: only 16%. Listen to find out why.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, April 29, 2026When the Company Building AI Can't Afford Its Own AmbitionsSomeone at the top of OpenAI is worried the bills are coming due before the revenue does. Google just handed the Pentagon a set of keys with no deadlock on the door. A pop star found a legal weapon that copyright law couldn't give her. And there's a French AI company quietly solving the problem that's been killing enterprise AI deployments for two years. Today's episode has the receipts on all of it.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, April 28, 2026OpenAI just broke up with Microsoft. Sort of. And China just proved no AI startup is safe.Two massive deals fell apart or got rewritten in a single day — and they say more about where AI power is actually concentrating than any benchmark ever could. One company that invented the AlphaGo era just raised $1.1 billion to throw out everything the industry has built. And Sam Altman published his principles the day after something happened in a small Canadian town that you need to hear about. Also: OpenAI is building a phone, and Google told us a number today that should change how every engineering leader thinks about headcount.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 27, 2026$40 billion, a California jury, and an AI that rewrote its own kill switchThis weekend's coverage, someone wrote a $40 billion check, a courtroom in California got its jury, and researchers documented AI models doing something you'll want to hear about. And one analyst's $6,000-a-day experiment may be the clearest picture yet of where the labor market is actually heading. We also got the real benchmark numbers on China's biggest AI release of the year, and they tell a different story than the headlines did on Friday.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, April 25, 2026China just handed everyone its best model for free...and you should probably ask why.Something strange happened in AI governance today: the agency protecting America's critical infrastructure is still waiting in line for access to a model that a Discord server already has. Meanwhile, Europe's great sovereign AI experiment just quietly ended in a transatlantic merger. Anthropic had a complicated week, and they published every detail of why. And states across the country are passing AI laws with margins that don't happen when anyone actually disagrees. There's a lot to unpack in today's episode, and a few stories that deserve more attention than they're getting.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Friday, April 24, 2026OpenAI just doubled the price of intelligence...and the benchmarks might actually back it up.Something happened Thursday involving the White House, China, and a technique that lets you steal billions in AI R&D without anyone noticing until it's too late. One AI product has been down for 48 hours while its status page insists everything is fine. A state just passed an AI bill that could reshape how the entire industry operates, and barely anyone is talking about it. Today's episode connects the dots between the model race, the geopolitics, and the governance questions that are starting to move faster than the headlines.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 23, 2026A $60 billion bet just changed the coding agent race. A single AI model found 271 bugs that human auditors missed — and now governments on two continents are alarmed by what it can do. A Wall Street law firm got caught by the wrong team. And the counter-punch from OpenAI's CEO raises questions about who's really afraid of what. Plus, Alibaba dropped a model that handles ten hours of audio in real time, and Google showed up to Google Cloud Next with $750 million and a point to prove.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, April 22, 2026Your boss might be training an AI with your mouse clicks right now.Something shifted on Wall Street Tuesday, and the language executives are using to describe it is worth paying attention to. A reader poll of tens of thousands lit up the AI world with a 2-to-1 result nobody predicted. An open-weights model from China just threw the pricing math for frontier AI into question. And Apple made a CEO announcement that tells you exactly what bet they're making on their own future. All that, plus what's happening inside OpenAI's product roadmap that should make GitHub Copilot users ask some questions.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, April 21, 2026Anthropic's big launch weekend didn't age well — and that's before you get to the spy agency secretly running the AI the government officially banned.The Reddit nickname Opus 4.7 earned over the weekend. A security flaw hiding in AI plumbing that 150 million installs are built on. The NSA doing something the Pentagon told everyone not to do. A breach that proves third-party AI tools are now an identity problem, not just a productivity one. And a music industry data point that makes the labeling debate feel suddenly urgent.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 20, 2026A robot finished a half-marathon six minutes faster than any human ever has. An Anthropic design tool erased $1.6 billion from Adobe's market cap in a single afternoon. The first serious AI chip company to challenge Nvidia went public, and it showed up with a $10 billion OpenAI deal in its pocket. Meta announced layoffs from a position of record profit, with executives saying future cuts depend on how fast AI improves. And OpenAI investors are quietly shopping for a different CEO. This weekend's coverage had a little bit of everything.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, April 18, 2026Anthropic's CEO walked into the White House on Friday, and the person who showed up to meet him wasn't a junior official. A 187% IPO surge in Hong Kong says more about where the AI race is really being fought than any benchmark. The talent pipeline feeding Silicon Valley is in freefall, and a new Stanford data point puts a hard number on how fast. An open-source AI client just gave enterprise IT a third option nobody saw coming. And new research out of Nature has something to say about who actually wins when AI goes up against a PhD.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Friday, April 17, 2026A 60-year-old math problem just fell, and the way it was solved is going to make you rethink what human expertise is worth. A brand you definitely own something from abandoned its entire identity for reasons that are equal parts absurd and deeply revealing about where capital is flowing right now. Anthropic dropped a new flagship model on the exact day users were publicly calling out the last one - timing is everything. The EU pulled an emergency lever against a tech giant that will affect every AI assistant trying to reach you. And a layoff announcement came with a justification that's about to echo across every boardroom in America.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 16, 2026Nine copies of Claude just did in five days what two human researchers couldn't do in seven - at twenty-two dollars an hour. Two frontier labs pick opposite sides of the single biggest question in AI safety, and one of them may have just shown you why the other one is wrong. Token demand jumped three thousand times in five months and the math is catching up with everyone. Plus: an eight hundred billion dollar number, a robot that can finally read the gauge, and a kill switch enters the political conversation.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, April 15, 2026Stanford just published its annual AI Index — and the trust numbers should make every AI executive uncomfortable. Meanwhile, an internal OpenAI memo leaked that reads more like a competitor takedown than an internal strategy doc. Anthropic is quietly building something that could blindside a $6.6 billion startup, NVIDIA dropped two open-source models on the same day, and Amazon just wrote a check that signals it's serious about taking on Starlink. It's a dense one.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

The AI industry's most powerful executive was attacked twice in a single weekend, but the piece that may do the most lasting damage was published in a magazine. Across the Atlantic, two governments just declared emergencies over an AI model nobody outside Anthropic has been allowed to touch. And a country of 1.4 billion people just made the single biggest educational bet in AI history. Plus: the most prestigious AI conference of the year delivered a verdict on who's winning that nobody saw coming a year ago. It's a Monday that will be hard to forget.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

The CEO of Google DeepMind says the way AI took off wasn't what he intended — and his alternative vision might change how you think about everything happening right now. This weekend also surfaced a story about an AI that ran a completely autonomous operation for one hundred straight days with zero human input, and the results made TIME Magazine. And two of the most powerful tech companies in the world are in crisis mode over their AI products, for very different reasons. Catch up on everything you missed this weekend in under 10 minutes.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

The Fed Chair and the Treasury Secretary didn't convene an emergency bank briefing for just any AI story — and yet, here we are. Plus: one of the biggest names in AI is having a week that keeps getting worse, a video model just reshuffled the entire market overnight, and a tool out of Oxford may have just changed what it means to get a routine CT scan. DARPA is quietly funding something that could rewrite how AI agents talk to each other — and the AI ethics battle is landing in state legislatures in ways that will affect every company building in this space.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Meta's secretive new AI lab finally shipped its first model — and it's more serious than the skeptics expected. Meanwhile, researchers ran AI through 21 nuclear war games and got a result that should stop everyone cold. We've also got the Q1 venture funding numbers, and the concentration of capital is unlike anything this industry has seen before. Plus: one of the biggest AI companies just published a policy paper arguing for something that would have seemed unthinkable from them even a year ago. All that and more in today's episode.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

An AI that can email its own researchers from an instance with no internet access - and they're not releasing it. A Chinese open-source model just beat every frontier lab on the top coding benchmark. A man with ALS spoke in his own voice for the first time in years. And the most comprehensive study ever run on AI doing real work just came back with a number that will stop you cold. All that, plus why Intel just joined Elon Musk's most ambitious compute bet yet.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

One of the biggest AI companies just hit a revenue milestone that rewrites the entire competitive scoreboard - and then announced a second move that's even more unusual than the first. Meanwhile, a nation-state has now put a specific data center campus in its crosshairs, and the insurance industry is starting to respond. Google is rolling out a feature that may be the most consequential product decision it's ever had to make - and it wasn't optional. And that number about how often AI search gets it wrong? You're going to want to hear it before your next Google query.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

OpenAI dropped a sweeping set of economic policy proposals on Monday - robot taxes, a Public Wealth Fund for every American, a federally subsidized four-day work week - just hours before Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to ban data center construction outright until Congress acts on AI. Meanwhile, OpenAI lost three senior executives simultaneously as a leaked cap table revealed Microsoft's $13 billion investment is now worth $215 billion on paper and a trillion-dollar IPO looms. Anthropic continued its rough stretch with 50,000 GitHub forks of accidentally-leaked Claude source code revealing two undisclosed features, including an always-on background agent called KAIROS - while the creator of Claude Code said the OpenClaw subscription cutoff was "not intentional." And Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve is the story you don't want to miss: an AI that rewrote its own game theory algorithms and outperformed every human-designed version. The builders and the regulators are both speaking loudly this week, and they are pointing in completely opposite directions.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 6, 2026This weekend, Anthropic made two major moves: cutting off OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions (and sparking serious developer backlash), then turning around and dropping $400M on a stealth biotech startup. Meanwhile, Perplexity launched an AI tax filing tool, ChatGPT Voice Mode landed on Apple CarPlay, and Marc Andreessen gave the clearest explanation yet of why AI agents work — and why they're going to need bank accounts. On the roads, Waymo hit 500,000 paid rides a week while Baidu's robotaxi fleet froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. Plus: a hospital CEO wants to replace radiologists with AI, a San Diego attorney was hit with a $96K fine for AI-hallucinated court filings, and CISA is warning of an actively exploited critical flaw in the Langflow AI agent framework. Patch now if you're running it.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Silicon Valley bought a talk show, Google gave away its crown jewels, and a lab study quietly confirmed one of the scarier things AI safety researchers have been warning about for years.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Yesterday was the day everyone started doing math on what a world without middle managers, without standalone video AI, and without privately-held AI giants actually looks like.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

The world's most celebrated AI safety lab accidentally left its entire codebase on the public internet, the same week venture capitalists bet nearly three hundred billion dollars that none of that messiness actually matters. Plus so much more!Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

We're talking record-breaking money, a post-mortem on one of the industry's most hyped products, a landmark capability unlock for AI coding assistants, a raging philosophical debate about whether we've already hit artificial general intelligence, and a pointed warning about AI security risks.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

A shouting match, a broken promise, and a fundraising idea so alarming one co-founder nearly quit on the spot, but that's not all...Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

A secret model leaked, a startup lost its entire founding team, robots walked the White House halls, and someone boldly predicted the world's first one-person billion-dollar company is just months away.Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Leaks, pivots, and war...oh my!Send us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!

Meta's metaverse retreat, Google's compression breakthrough, Apple's deeper Gemini gambit, the shutdown of OpenAI's social AI experiment, the benchmark problem, and the enterprise AI gap that keeps swallowing pilot budgetsSend us Fan MailRemember to subscribe, rate, and share this podcast if you like it!