Yesterday in AI

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, June 6, 2026 The Company Building AI to Build Itself Just Asked the World to Hit Pause Anthropic dropped a document this week that might be the most honest thing a frontier AI lab has ever published: internal metrics showing Claude now writes 80% of their production code, engineers ship 8x as much per day as 2024, and their flagship model sped up its own training code b...

Yesterday in AI | Friday, June 5, 2026 The $1.77 trillion question: is this the most important company on earth? The biggest IPO in history just set its price, and trading starts next week. Researchers found a way to turn your WhatsApp notifications into a weapon against your own AI assistant, no clicks required. Two image labs went head-to-head Wednesday and flipped the leaderboard. Martin Scorse...

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, June 4, 2026 Microsoft just stopped being OpenAI's distribution partner. Loudly. This episode covers a day when the biggest players in AI all moved at once: one tech giant showed up to its developer conference with 7 new in-house models, an autonomous agent, and hardware that looks nothing like anything shipping today. Google told investors it can't build fast...

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, June 3, 2026 The White House Just Gave AI Models a New Legal Status. Florida Filed a Lawsuit That Could Change Everything. On Tuesday, the federal government quietly created a regulatory category that doesn't exist yet, and gave the AI industry 60 days to figure out what it means. A state attorney general filed a lawsuit that will force a judge to answer a questio...

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, June 2, 2026 The AI lab going public, the model the EU needed a government deal to access, and the startup cleaning your apartment for reasons that have nothing to do with cleaning One company just filed the paperwork that puts it on a collision course with public markets. Another just handed a European regulator access to an AI model so powerful that governments have be...

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, June 1, 2026 What happens when you put five different AI models in charge of a civilization and walk away for two weeks? One of them went extinct in four days. Another built a utopia. A third had the lowest crime rate of any simulation, then quietly let everyone starve. This weekend also surfaced why corporate America is now rationing AI access, what'...

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 30, 2026 Anthropic just became the most valuable AI company on earth. There's something bigger buried in the fine print. Something got buried at the bottom of yesterday's biggest announcement, and most people missed it. Anthropic had the most consequential single day in company history, a Google engineer just became the defendant in a case with no legal pr...

Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 29, 2026 When your AI has a brokerage account, nobody is ready for what comes next. Anthropic dropped Opus 4.8 yesterday, with benchmarks that beat GPT-5.5, and a research preview that lets it run hundreds of parallel sub-agents at once. AI agents now have wallets and can trade your stocks. IBM tested every major AI model on real enterprise IT work, and none of them c...

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 28, 2026 Anthropic is about to score how well you prompt. A feature spotted inside Claude's settings will scan your conversations, measure 11 behaviors, and return a personal AI fluency score. A well-funded lab just entered the space Anthropic has used to keep everyone else nervous. One enterprise giant is standing up a thousand-person engineering team built en...

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 27, 2026 AI is calling your debtors now and sometimes it's wrong about who owes what. From AI bots pursuing already-settled debts to an open-source decensoring tool with 13 million downloads, yesterday was a good day to ask who's actually in control here. We've also got McKinsey quietly restructuring partner pay because AI ate their billing model, a...

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 26, 2026 The Pope just declared war on Silicon Valley's power grab and Anthropic's co-founder was in the room when he did it. In today's episode: a moral document from the Vatican is reshaping the AI governance debate in ways no lobbying campaign can counter. Colorado just tore up the most aggressive AI law in America — and what replaced it tells you s...

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 25, 2026 Robots that work, AI that doesn't, a price war with geopolitical fine print, and the words tech billionaires are using to describe you. This weekend delivered a head-snapping pair of stories from the physical world: humanoid robots sorting 250,000 warehouse packages without a single failure, and an AI tool pulled from 11,000 Starbucks loc...

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 23, 2026 SpaceX finally opened the books, and the numbers are a lot The week ended with some of the biggest AI-adjacent financial moves we've seen. A filing that shows what Musk is actually building inside his empire. A chip company that just found an entirely new market to own. A tech giant making two completely contradictory moves in the same 24 hours. A Chin...

Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 22, 2026 A leaked tape. A fired workforce. And a city that just put a 1-in-20 odds on an AI economic shockwave. A secret recording surfaced this week that reframes everything companies say about "productivity monitoring," and the person talking is one of the most powerful tech executives alive. Meanwhile, a general-purpose AI disproved something mathematicia...

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 21, 2026 One of the most famous researchers in AI just quietly switched sides, and the implications for the frontier are hard to overstate. Google finally entered the agent race with something that could actually win, OpenAI's IPO is reportedly days from filing, and there's a new kind of enterprise AI customer emerging — one where a bad output doesn't...

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 20, 2026 The lawsuit everyone expected to reshape the AI industry ended not with a bang but with a calendar. Three weeks of bombshell testimony, leaked messages, and $100 billion in claims, and the Musk vs. OpenAI verdict came down to something you'd never guess. Google dropped one of its biggest product announcements in years at I/O, and buried inside the Gem...

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 19, 2026 10,000 Graduates Booed the Former CEO of Google, and That's Just Where We Start Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt walked into a graduation ceremony yesterday and walked out to boos — and the data behind that reaction should make the tech industry uncomfortable. A small research team used an AI model most people still can't access to crack Apple's...

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 18, 2026 AI Just Asked to See Your Bank Account This weekend, OpenAI connected ChatGPT to your real financial data, and a lot of people had feelings about it. A Microsoft exec put a specific timeline on white-collar automation that'll make a lot of managers rethink their Q4 plans. One small country became the first government in history to give ev...

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 16, 2026 OpenAI's Two Biggest Partnerships Are Cracking at the Same Time Apple hired lawyers to escape their deal. Microsoft is quietly shopping for a replacement. And Anthropic's developer community is staging a revolt. Today's episode connects those dots, then gets into what SAP's new AI lockdown means for enterprise software, why your coding a...

Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 15, 2026 The AI business throne just changed hands for the first time ever. Something happened Thursday that has never happened before, and it involves two companies racing toward IPOs. A startup went public and crossed a number that has never been reached in a single trading day. Nvidia did something no company in history has done. And a quiet conversation you have t...

Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 14, 2026 Your cursor has done one thing for 50 years. Google just decided it should do a lot more. Google just rebuilt the cursor. Amazon handed your shopping cart to an agent. And workers at some of the world's biggest tech companies are already gaming the AI metrics their bosses are tracking. Today's episode covers seven stories: from a $2.1 billion bet...

Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 13, 2026 A $33B AI chip goes public in 48 hours, and hackers just used AI to write their first real cyberattack AI's cybersecurity cold war stopped being theoretical yesterday. Google confirmed the first case of hackers using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day flaw, and a massive supply chain attack is quietly targeting the tools developers use every day. The...

Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 12, 2026 When AI started pulling off the kind of moves that used to live only in science fiction This episode covers the week AI stopped being theoretical about cyber threats, and what that shift means for every organization relying on software to exist. There's also a confessional from inside one of the biggest AI labs about behavior that took a year to trace a...

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 11, 2026 Someone just leaked Google's hand before Google I/O. A developer digging through a routine app update found 7 hidden Gemini models Google hasn't announced yet — and the names point to something big coming later this month. Meanwhile, a French startup's robotic hands went viral for all the right reasons, a major American company...

Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 9, 2026 Claude Knows When You're Watching Anthropic built a tool that reads what Claude is actually thinking before it decides what to say, and what they found about its safety behavior will make you think twice about how AI testing works. OpenAI crossed a threshold two years in the making with voice AI that can finally reason in real time. One of tech's m...