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ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week

ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week

著者： From Weights & Biases Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week
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 Every ThursdAI, Alex Volkov hosts a panel of experts, ai engineers, data scientists and prompt spellcasters on twitter spaces, as we discuss everything major and important that happened in the world of AI for the past week. Topics include LLMs, Open source, New capabilities, OpenAI, competitors in AI space, new LLM models, AI art and diffusion aspects and much more.

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  • 📅 ThursdAI - Apr 30 - DeepSeek V4 (1.6T MoE), Cursor SDK Wins WolfBench, Mayo's REDMOD Saves Lives, Stripe Gives Agents a Wallet & more

    📅 ThursdAI - Apr 30 - DeepSeek V4 (1.6T MoE), Cursor SDK Wins WolfBench, Mayo's REDMOD Saves Lives, Stripe Gives Agents a Wallet & more
    2026/05/01
    Hey everyone, Alex here 👋Tomorrow is May. May! I genuinely cannot believe we’re four months into 2026 already, and the AI news cycle is showing zero signs of slowing down. This week’s show was a wild one! We opened with what is genuinely one of the most important AI stories I’ve ever covered (Mayo Clinic AI detecting pancreatic cancer THREE YEARS before human radiologists), we covered the return of the Chinese whale with DeepSeek V4, OpenAI got caught in their own system prompt begging GPT-5.5 to please stop talking about goblins, and I literally gave my coding agent a credit card and asked it to buy my fiancée a wedding gift with the new Strip Link skill and CLI! Oh yeah, I’m getting married next Tuesday! 💍 So next week’s show will be a little different. I’ll be back the week after to catch you up on whatever drops in my absence (almost certainly something major, knowing this industry).Lots to get through, so let’s dive in. (also, in the end I have a full month recap of every major launch, don’t miss) ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Mayo Clinic’s REDMOD: AI Detects Pancreatic Cancer 3 Years Early 🔥 (X, Blog, Announcement)I know we usually cover Models, Parameter sizes, MoEs and big copmanies. But this is important. This is the use case that justifies the entire AI revolution, the GPU burns, the buildouts. I want humans to WIN, and Cancer to be fixed!Mayo Clinic just published a study in Gut (BMJ) validating an AI model called REDMOD that detects pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. The numbers are jaw-dropping: They show 73% sensitivity for catching prediagnostic cancers, compared to 39% for experienced human radiologists (while looking at the same exact CT scans).And maybe the most important bit, at scans taken more than 2 years before diagnosis, the AI catches nearly 3x as many cases as specialistsFor context: pancreatic cancer has less than 15% five-year survival specifically because 85% of patients are diagnosed after the disease has already spread. This is the cancer that took Steve Jobs. Imagine if Jobs had access to this AI three years before his diagnosis. That’s the impact we’re talking about.As Dr. Ajit Goenka from Mayo Clinic put it, the greatest barrier to saving lives from pancreatic cancer has been the inability to see the disease when it’s still curable. This AI can now identify the signature of cancer from a normal-appearing pancreas.Even better: it runs on CT scans people are already getting for other reasons. No extra screening protocol, no new imaging required. Just smarter analysis of existing data. The model also showed remarkably stable performance across institutions, imaging systems, and protocols, with 90-92% test-retest concordance over serial scans.Mayo Clinic is now moving this into prospective clinical testing through a study called AI-PACED (Artificial Intelligence for Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection).When we say “lets f*****g go” that’s what we mean. Yeah getting more intelligence is cool, but I want a world without decease! Let’s F*****g go mayo clinic! Agentic Commerce - Giving OpenClaw my credit card - safely! Stripe Link Wallet and Infrastructure CLI (X, Announcement, Blog, Announcement)Ok, give an LLM your credit card, what can go wrong.. right? Well, it’s clear that this, increasingly, is the future of commerce. Agents will be shopping for us, and we need solutions here. Well, this week at Stripe Sessions (Stripe’s annual product lineup conference) just delivered. Link Wallet, is a new ... API? CLI? Skill? Definitely a skill, for your agents, to connect with your Stripe Link (the thing that stores your credit cards safely) and then giving your agent a budget, it can go and make purchases in your behalf. Now the trick here, is, every purchase, you get a notification to approve, and the agent never sees your actual credit card number! This I think is the biggest win here. To test it out , first, I showed Wolfred the install instructions, which are literally this: Read link.com/skill.md and get me set up with LinkAnd then I asked Wolfred my OpenClaw assistant to buy me a present of its choice for my upcoming wedding, and that I don’t want to know what the present is, but I can approve the spend! OpenClaw installed this, sent me a link to connect to my Link.com account, I also downloaded the Link app to receive notifications (and had to enable them by hand, it was a bit annoying to discover, but they said they will fix the onboarding) and .. voila, my agent can now go spend my money, and I get these approval notifications: The kicker? The present Wolfred sent us is due to arrive like 2 months after the wedding 😂 But hey, it’s still something! My agent went, chose a wedding gift in budget, asked for my approval to puchase, and filled out ...
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  • 📅 Apr 23: OpenAI's Week: GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2, Codex CUA + Chronicle, + Claude Design, Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6-27B

    📅 Apr 23: OpenAI's Week: GPT-5.5, GPT-Image-2, Codex CUA + Chronicle, + Claude Design, Kimi K2.6, Qwen 3.6-27B
    2026/04/24
    Hey, Alex here, I’ll try to catch you up, but it’s one of the more intense weeks in AI in recent memory. Here’s the TL;DR - OpenAI dominates across the board this week! Finally launches “spud”, called it GPT 5.5 (and 5.5 Pro), and it’s SOTA on most things,nearly matching the mysterious Claude Mythos but released and we can actually use it (we tested it extensively). OpenAI also took the crown in image generate with the incredible GPT-image-v2 release, beating Nano Banana 2 and pro by a significant margin, the images are incredible, this model can generate working QR codes and 360 images it’s quite bonkers. Codex was updated with Computer Use (which I told you about last week), in-app browser and a bunch of other tools that match GPT 5.5 intelligence. Meanwhile, Anthropic launched an incredible research preview of Claude Design, finally admitted that Claude was dumb and reset quotas across the board, while breaking the trust of the community with removing Claude code from the pro plan. We’ve also got great open source updates, Kimi K2.6 and Qwen 3.6 27B are both great performers! We were live on the stream for almost 4 hours today waiting for GPT 5.5 and finally got it and tested it live on the show + had Peter Gostev on from Arena who had early access and shared with us his insights. Let’s get into it! ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.OpenAI’s GPT 5.5 is here - SOTA AI intelligence you can actually use (Release Blog)OpenAI finally gave us all access to their latest intelligence boost, GPT 5.5 thinking (and GPT 5.5 Pro). These models take the crown across many benchmarks, including TerminalBench (82.7%), GPDval (84%) and more. You can see the highlited versions on the image above. Though, its not uncommon for OpenAI to do some chart crimes, so @d4m1n created a chart that also showed the full benchmarks, including the ones GPT 5.5 is not beating Opus at, as you can see below, it underperforms on Humanity’s Last Exam, and scaled tool use. But, benchmarks don’t tell the full story. GPT 5.5 uses significantly less tokens, compared to 5.4, about 40% less. It’s also more expensive, but given the lower token usage, it nets out at about ~20% price increase, while being more intelligence and faster. Tons of folks who had early access are reporting the same things, this model excels in long running tasks, Peter Gostev from Arena, who joined our live stream, showed us an incredible demo that ran overnight for over 8h! This model can work until the task is done, no longer just pausing in the middel asking for your input. The real highlight is, paired with the recent GPT-image-2 (which I’ll expand on later in this newsletter), GPT 5.5 becomes an excellent UI designer. This is a big area in which Claude still has moat and OpenAI is trying to catch up here, and the real alpha now is to use both the Image gen and 5.5 in tandem to create beautiful visuals and UIs. The main thing is, after testing it quite a few times, this only works if you generate an image outside of the session that builds the actual UI. we tried a couple of times to do it in 1 session, and the resulting UI doesn’t seem to be remotely close to the generated image. Only after sending this image to a completely fresh session and asking for a “pixel perfect” implementation, did GPT 5.5 start to resemble the input image and rebuild the whole ui in pixel perfect fidelity! GPT Image v2 - SOTA thinking image model, finally beating Nano Banana (Blog, Live)Like we said, OpenAI is dominating this week, and in both instances those are great models. Though, apples to apples comparison, GPT-image-v2 is a much higher jump — from previous models — than GPT 5.5! According to Artificial Analysis, the jump in how many people prefer GPT-image-2 in blind tests compared to other model is the higest we’ve ever seen, over 250 points. And you can clearly see it in the generations as well. Previously this week, we did a live streaming session with Peter Gostev (from Arena) and we did a deep dive comparing this new model to GPT Image 1.5, Nano Banana and Grok Imagine, and it’s a clear winner across most categories.Character consistency is immaculate, high resolution imagery, instruction following, are all so so good it’s a bit hard to explain in text. Reasoning visual intelligence Like with Nano Banana, this model is likely based on a big GPT image, it’s no longer just diffusion, as you can see, it reasons! And apparently the more reasoning you give it (if you choose GPT pro) the better it’ll be. The examples are indeed wild, the model can generate images of code that works, generate functional QR codes and bar codes! The craziest thing people figured out it can do, is functional 360 imagery (equirectangular format), you can just ask the model to create a 360 image of “scene” and then drop ...
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  • April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews

    April 16 - Codex uses your mac in the background, Opus 4.7 release not quite Mythos + 3 interviews
    2026/04/16
    Hey ya’ll, Alex here with your weekly AI news catch up. It’s one of those Thursday’s where no matter how well I prep, the big AI labs are hell bent to show up before each other. Alibaba dropped Qwen 3.6 with Apache 2, confirming their commitment to Open Source, then Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 (not quite Mythos) and OpenAI followed with a huge Codex update that includes Computer Use among other things. The highlight of Computer User is the background usage, more on that below. This is all just from today!Previously in the week we had 2 incredible 3D world generators, Lyra 2.0 from Nvidia and HYWorld 2 from Tencent, Windsurf dropping 2.0 version with Devin integration and Google releasing a Gemini TTS, with over 90+ languages support and incredible emotions range, and Baidu open sources Ernie Image, rivaling Nano Banana. Today on the show we had 3 awesome guests, Theodor from Cognition joined to cover the new Windsurf, Kwindla is back on the show to talk about “the side project that escaped containment” Gradient-Bang, a multi agent, voice based space game and Trevor from Marimo joined to talk about pairing your agents with a Marimo notebook. Let’s dive in! 👇 ThursdAI - We’re over 16K on YT today, my goal is to get to parity with Substack, please subscribe. Codex can now really use your computer: OpenAI updates Codex with CUA, Image Generation, Browser, SSH (X, Blog)Codex from OpenAI has been the major focus inside OpenAI for a while now. We’ve reported previously that OpenAI is closing down SORA and other “side-quests” to focus, and that they will join Codex, ChatGPT and the Atlas browser into one “superapp” and today, it seems, that we’ve gotten an early glimpse of what that app will be. The Codex team (which seems to be growing from day to day), have been on a TEAR feature wise lately, trying to beat Claude Code, and they pushed an update with a LOT of features and updates, among them a new memory system, internal browser and image generation. The highlight for me though, was absolutely the polished computer use experience. Computer use is not new, Claude has a computer use feature flag, many others. Hell, we told you about computer use with Open Interpreter, back in Sep of 2023. But, this.... this feels different. You see, OpenAI has quietly purchased a company called Software Apps Inc, that almost launched a macos AI companion a year ago called Sky. This team is obsessed with Mac, and somehow, they were able to build a magical experience, a huge part of which, is the fact that they are controlling the mac, in the background. This is like black magic stuff. You work on one document, Codex clicks buttons and does things in another, without interrupting you. You may ask, Alex, why do you even care so much about computer use, when most of the work happens in the browser anyway, and Claude (and Codex) can control my browser anyway? Well, true, but not ALL work is happening there, for example, file system integration. It’s notoriously big part of browser automation that fails, when you need to upload/download files. I’ve spent countless cycles trying to get this to work with OpenClaw, and this, just does it. This closes the loop between knowledge work in the browser (yes, this thing can use your browser) and the broader OS. It’s so so polished, I truly recommend you try it. It’s as easy as @ tagging any app that you have running and asking Codex to do stuff there. Pro Tip: Enable fast mode for a much smoother experience. Anthropic Opus 4.7 is here, not quite Mythos, 64.3% Swe-bench Pro, tuned for long running tasks (X, System Card)What is there to say? Is this the model we expected from Anthropic after releasing the news about Claude Mythos last week? no. But hey, we’ll take it. I new Claude Opus, with a significantly improved multimodality capabilities, and a long horizon coding task improvements? For the same price? Well, not quite! Apparently, this model could be a “from scratch” trained model, given that the tokenizer (the thing that converts words into tokens for the LLM to understand) is a different one. It also uses 1.3x more tokens for the same tasks, which means, that the new and default model from Anthropic became effectively more expensive (A note they acknowledged by raising the usage limits, to an unknown amount in Anthropic subscription plans, but it’ll still be a token tax on the API use) How about performance? Well, hard to judge on Evals alone, but they are great. A huge jump in Swe-bench Pro, over 10% improvement, puts this model as the best out there, except Mythos. It’s also the best at real world knowledge via GPQA Diamond (except Mythos). Are you seeing a trend here? Anthropic released a preview of a model, but for the first time, it’s not their “absolute best” model, and in a weird move, they have compared it on Evals to an unreleased model (presumably 10x the size?) As far as we’ve tested this, it gave an incredibly ...
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