Yesterday in AI

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,...

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 produ...

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 $1...

Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 6, 2026 This 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 exp...

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 Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find 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 Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find 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 Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and...

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 Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Blue...

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 Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find 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 Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find it!

Leaks, pivots, and war...oh my! Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review it so others can find 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 budgets Send us Fan Mail Feedback? Email mike@yesterdayinai.news or connect on LinkedIn, X, or Bluesky. If you like the show, please take a minute to rate and review...