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Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 4th, 2026. A Harvard study published in Science put a 2024-era OpenAI model through 76 real ER cases and it outdiagnosed two attending physicians at every stage — including flagging a rare flesh-eating infection in a transplant patient 12 to 24 hours before the treating doctor caught it, with reviewers unable to tell which diagnoses came from...

Today we're going deep on what's actually happening inside organizations trying to deploy AI at scale. UiPath CMO Michael Atalla brings a grounded perspective shaped by 15 years leading Microsoft Office through the cloud transition — and his message is blunt: 70 to 80% of AI pilots never make it out of the pilot stage, not because the technology fails, but because companies treat AI as a t...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of May 1st, 2026. The White House is quietly reversing course on its fight with Anthropic — blocking the company’s plan to expand Mythos access from 50 to 120 firms while simultaneously drafting a memo to let federal agencies work around the Pentagon’s supply chain designation, all because the government wants more access to Mythos for itself. Google beg...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 30th, 2026. Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's Biohub launched a $500 million Virtual Biology Initiative alongside Nvidia, the Allen Institute, and others — aiming to build the datasets needed for AI to model how disease starts at the cellular level, betting that the same scaling laws that cracked language and proteins will eventually...

In this bonus episode we’re going deep on one of the most fascinating AI experiments we’ve come across — a 13 billion parameter language model called Talkie, trained exclusively on 260 billion tokens of text published before 1931. No internet, no modern science, no World War II. Built by former OpenAI and Anthropic researchers, Talkie can hold a full conversation, write working Python code despite...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 29th, 2026. Elon Musk took the stand in federal court as opening statements began in his $130 billion lawsuit against OpenAI — accusing Sam Altman of stealing a charity, while OpenAI's lawyers called it sour grapes from someone who didn't get his way, with four weeks of testimony and hundreds of private messages set to spill into the...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 28th, 2026. OpenAI and Microsoft rewrote their partnership — ending Microsoft's exclusivity over OpenAI's IP, removing the controversial AGI clause, and freeing OpenAI to run on any cloud including Amazon, while Microsoft locks in a revenue share through 2030 and Azure-first access through 2032. China's National Development and R...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 27th, 2026. DeepSeek is back with V4 Pro — an open-source model with a 1 million token context window and pricing that significantly undercuts GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.7, while also running on Huawei chips, giving China a working example of frontier AI infrastructure completely outside Nvidia’s stack. Anthropic published results from Project Deal, a w...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 23rd, 2026. Anthropic’s Mythos model — the AI the company deemed too dangerous to release publicly — was reportedly accessed by an unauthorized Discord group within days of launch, using naming patterns from a recent data breach and borrowed contractor credentials to slip past its restricted deployment. SpaceX announced a partnership with coding...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 22nd, 2026. OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Images 2.0 — the first image model that thinks before it generates, searching the web for references and self-checking outputs before delivering results — immediately taking the number one spot on Arena AI’s leaderboard by a wide margin over Google’s Nano Banana, with Sam Altman calling it like going from GPT-3...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 20th, 2026. Anthropic launched Claude Design, a new tool that turns prompts, screenshots, and codebases into interactive prototypes, slide decks, and marketing collateral — closing the loop from first sketch to shipped product inside Anthropic’s ecosystem, and rattling the design world just days after Canva’s own AI 2.0 launch. OpenAI lost three...

Today we're going deep inside Canva AI 2.0 with co-founder and CPO Cameron Adams. He breaks down how Canva trained its design model not just on finished outputs but on the actual sequence of human edits — the hesitations, the pivots, the moments of clarity — so the AI understands what you mean, not just what you type. He makes a compelling case that when AI makes everyone good at design, the p...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 17th, 2026. OpenAI dropped a major Codex update that adds background computer use, parallel agents, an in-app browser, memory, image generation, and automations — with Codex’s head openly calling it “building the superapp out in the open” as the platform evolves from a coding agent into a unified AI command center. Anthropic released Claude Opus...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 16th, 2026. Allbirds — the sustainable sneaker brand that peaked at a $4 billion valuation — closed a $50 million deal to reinvent itself as a GPU rental business called NewBird AI, sending its stock up over 600% in a single day and officially claiming the title of wildest AI pivot of the year. Snap announced layoffs of 1,000 employees — 16% of...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 15th, 2026. OpenAI released GPT-5.4-Cyber with a deliberately open access model — anyone who passes an ID check can use it for defensive security work — taking a direct shot at Anthropic’s Mythos rollout which is locked to just 40 approved partners, framing the debate as “no one should be picking winners and losers” in cyber defense. Nvidia rele...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 14th, 2026. An AI agent named Luna signed a three-year lease, received a $100K budget and a credit card, posted job listings, conducted Zoom interviews, and opened a real boutique in San Francisco — becoming what may be the world’s first AI employer, with some hilariously human mistakes along the way. An internal OpenAI memo obtained by The Verg...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 13th, 2026. A 20-year-old who believed AI would end humanity threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s San Francisco home before being arrested outside OpenAI’s headquarters — followed by a second attack days later — with Altman responding in a personal blog post calling the fear “justified” and admitting the industry’s power struggle is unlike a...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 10th, 2026. Perplexity launched a Plaid integration that connects its Computer agent directly to your bank accounts, credit cards, and loans — turning it into a full personal finance hub that can build budgets, track net worth, and create debt payoff plans on demand, putting it in direct competition with Mint, TurboTax, and every other finance a...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 9th, 2026. Meta’s Superintelligence Labs shipped its first model — Muse Spark — nine months after Alexandr Wang took over and rebuilt the AI stack from scratch, with the multimodal reasoning model landing competitive benchmarks against Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 on reasoning, while Meta leans hard into health as its differentiator. HeyGen released Ava...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 8th, 2026. Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing — a defensive cybersecurity coalition with Apple, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Nvidia built around Claude Mythos Preview, a model so powerful the company decided not to release it publicly, instead giving access to select partners to patch critical security flaws before similar capabilities fall...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 7th, 2026. OpenAI published a 13-page policy document outlining how society should prepare for superintelligence — with Sam Altman proposing robot taxes, a national wealth fund that pays dividends to every American, a four-day workweek, and emergency playbooks for AI that can no longer be shut down. The New Yorker dropped a 100-interview deep di...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 6th, 2026. Anthropic blocked third-party agent platforms like OpenClaw from running on standard Claude subscription plans, requiring power users to pay separately via API keys — a move the company calls sustainability, but one that risks pushing its most loyal developer community straight to OpenAI at the worst possible time. Netflix open-so...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 3rd, 2026. A guy in LA launched a telehealth startup from his house with $20,000, a stack of AI tools, and one full-time hire — his brother — and is now on pace for $1.8 billion in annual sales, becoming one of the first real examples of Sam Altman’s prediction that AI would make the solo billion-dollar company possible. OpenAI made its first me...

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 2nd, 2026. Jack Dorsey published a post arguing that AI can now replace the entire management layer of a company — framing Block's recent 40% workforce cut as a deliberate bet that smaller, flatter teams powered by AI will outrun every legacy org chart. SpaceX filed confidentially for what would be the largest IPO in history, targeting a...

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 1st, 2026. OpenAI closed the largest single fundraise in venture history — $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation — with Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank anchoring the round, and the company announcing plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its agent tools into one unified superapp. Anthropic had its second major leak in a week, with Claude Code’s fu...