Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Your boss might be training an AI with your mouse clicks right now.

Something shifted on Wall Street Tuesday, and the language executives are using to describe it is worth paying attention to. A reader poll of tens of thousands lit up the AI world with a 2-to-1 result nobody predicted. An open-weights model from China just threw the pricing math for frontier AI into question. And Apple made a CEO announcement that tells you exactly what bet they're making on their own future. All that, plus what's happening inside OpenAI's product roadmap that should make GitHub Copilot users ask some questions.

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Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Anthropic's big launch weekend didn't age well — and that's before you get to the spy agency secretly running the AI the government officially banned.

The Reddit nickname Opus 4.7 earned over the weekend. A security flaw hiding in AI plumbing that 150 million installs are built on. The NSA doing something the Pentagon told everyone not to do. A breach that proves third-party AI tools are now an identity problem, not just a productivity one. And a music industry data point that makes the labeling debate feel suddenly urgent.

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Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 20, 2026

A robot finished a half-marathon six minutes faster than any human ever has. An Anthropic design tool erased $1.6 billion from Adobe's market cap in a single afternoon. The first serious AI chip company to challenge Nvidia went public, and it showed up with a $10 billion OpenAI deal in its pocket. Meta announced layoffs from a position of record profit, with executives saying future cuts depend on how fast AI improves. And OpenAI investors are quietly shopping for a different CEO. This weekend's coverage had a little bit of everything.

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