Yesterday in AI | Saturday, April 25, 2026

China 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.

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Yesterday in AI | Friday, April 24, 2026

OpenAI 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.

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Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 23, 2026

A $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.

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