Yesterday in AI
A rundown of all of the important stories in AI that happened yesterday in 10 minutes or less.
Episodes
119 episodes
The $7B Switchboard Land Grab, Dario Fires Back, and How a Hospital Resident Cracked a 22-Year Math Mystery
Yesterday in AI | 18 August 2026The $7B Switchboard Land Grab, Dario Fires Back, and How a Hospital Resident Cracked a 22-Year Math MysteryThe artificial intelligence landscape witnessed massive infrastructure consolid...
Why AI Adoption Fails at Work (And How to Fix It) with Bianca Baumann
Yesterday in AI | 17 August 2026Why AI Adoption Fails at Work (And How to Fix It) with Bianca BaumannAccording to a McKinsey survey, 78% of organizations are now using AI, but buying enterprise licenses is the only eas...
The Speed Over Smart Shift, Unsupervised Agent Turf Wars, and Peeking at your Mac History
Yesterday in AI | 15 August 2026The Speed Over Smart Shift, Unsupervised Agent Turf Wars, and Peeking at your Mac HistoryThe artificial intelligence race pivoted from raw intelligence to blistering inference speed, ent...
The Collapsing Cost of Intelligence, Twitch Training Opt-Outs, and $13B Vibe Coding
Yesterday in AI | 14 August 2026The Collapsing Cost of Intelligence, Twitch Training Opt-Outs, and $13B Vibe CodingFrontier intelligence costs collapsed into pennies this week as rapid model release cycles, browser age...
The 1 Billion User Milestone, On-Device AI Upgrades, and OpenAI's $7B Buyback
Yesterday in AI | 13 August 2026The 1 Billion User Milestone, On-Device AI Upgrades, and OpenAI's $7B BuybackConsumer AI scale, hardware privacy indicators, and model security flaws intersected this week. This episode ...
“Free” is the New Gateway Drug, Invisible Tattoos, and a Bitcoin Miner Becomes a Landlord
Yesterday in AI | 12 August 2026“Free” is the New Gateway Drug, Invisible Tattoos, and a Bitcoin Miner Becomes a LandlordLocal execution, output provenance, and soaring compute costs collided this week. This episode br...
The AI That Hacked a Gym Class, North Korea's Local AI Lab, and New Orleans 911
Yesterday in AI | 11 August 2026The AI That Hacked a Gym Class, North Korea's Local AI Lab, and New Orleans 911Autonomous AI agents crossed major boundary lines in consumer privacy, software exploits, and public safety...
70% of Americans Oppose Data Centers, YouTube Collateral Damage, and OpenAI's Wiggly Donut
Yesterday in AI | 10 August 202670% of Americans Oppose Data Centers, YouTube Collateral Damage, and OpenAI's Wiggly DonutArtificial intelligence infrastructure, content filters, and hardware ambitions collided with lo...
Autocomplete for Biology, Autonomous Agent Group Chats, and AMD's Silicon Chip Deal
Yesterday in AI | 8 August 2026Autocomplete for Biology, Autonomous Agent Group Chats, and AMD's Silicon Chip DealArtificial intelligence capabilities experienced unprecedented breakthroughs in biological creation, sof...
Jeff Dean Exits Google, Unlimited ChatGPT Text Chats, and AI Agents Get Crypto Wallets
Yesterday in AI | 7 August 2026Jeff Dean Exits Google, Unlimited ChatGPT Text Chats, and AI Agents Get Crypto WalletsThe artificial intelligence landscape experienced major structural shifts this week as tech leaders r...
AI Creates Fake GitHub Personas, 59% of Managers Use AI in Layoffs, and Nvidia's Free Driver
Yesterday in AI | 6 August 2026AI Creates Fake GitHub Personas, 59% of Managers Use AI in Layoffs, and Nvidia's Free DriverArtificial intelligence is rapidly shifting from answering simple queries to making critical, h...
Texas Freezes 474 Gigawatts of Data Centers, Secret AI Rulebooks, and AI Agent Bouncers
Yesterday in AI | 5 August 2026Texas Freezes 474 Gigawatts of Data Centers, Secret AI Rulebooks, and AI Agent BouncersPhysical grid constraints and government oversight collided with rapid artificial intelligence deplo...
200,000 AI Model Attacks in 2 Minutes, 16-Day Coding Runs, and Entrance Exam Cheating
Yesterday in AI | 4 August 2026200,000 AI Model Attacks in 2 Minutes, 16-Day Coding Runs, and Entrance Exam CheatingCybersecurity threats and autonomous capabilities reached unprecedented velocity this week as artifici...
27-Year Math Mystery Solved, Fake Satellite Imagery, and "Bulldog Bulbasaur" Games
Yesterday in AI | 3 August 202627-Year Math Mystery Solved, Fake Satellite Imagery, and "Bulldog Bulbasaur" GamesArtificial intelligence delivered a striking contrast between advanced reasoning and containment challeng...
Accidental Real-World AI Hacks, 80% OpenAI Discounts, and Apple's AI Subscriptions
Yesterday in AI | 1 August 2026Accidental Real-World AI Hacks, 80% OpenAI Discounts, and Apple's AI SubscriptionsThe artificial intelligence industry saw major developments in security containment, model pricing, and c...
Unprompted AI Cartels, Gemini Robotics 2 Lends a Hand, and $6M Data Breaches
Yesterday in AI | 31 July 2026Unprompted AI Cartels, Gemini Robotics 2 Lends a Hand, and $6M Data BreachesThe artificial intelligence industry saw major breakthroughs in full-body robotics, agentic market behavior, and...
"Pacing the Frontier" AI Petition, Claude Mythos Crypto Break, and Meta $14B Data Center
Yesterday in AI | 30 July 2026"Pacing the Frontier" AI Petition, Claude Mythos Crypto Break, and Meta $14B Data CenterThe artificial intelligence industry experienced a historic clash between safety warnings and capita...
2.8 Trillion Open Parameters, Memory Chip Market Shock, and Grok Court Challenge
Yesterday in AI | 29 July 20262.8 Trillion Open Parameters, Memory Chip Market Shock, and Grok Court ChallengeThe global artificial intelligence landscape faced a week of major strategic shifts across open-source model...
Circular Money, a Call for Radical Transparency, and Robots Trained on Video Games
Yesterday in AI | 28 July 2026Circular Money, a Call for Radical Transparency, and Robots Trained on Video GamesThe artificial intelligence boom reached mind-boggling financial scales this week as computing infrastruct...
The $5 Model Revolution, DeepSeek's $71B Pause, and Google's Autonomous Agents
Yesterday in AI | 27 July 2026The $5 Model Revolution, DeepSeek's $71B Pause, and Google's Autonomous AgentsThe artificial intelligence industry experienced a dramatic shift in economic fundamentals this week as the co...
ChatGPT Health Rollout, Google's $44.9B AI Capex Burn, and Voice Agent Upgrades
Yesterday in AI | 25 July 2026ChatGPT Health Rollout, Google's $44.9B AI Capex Burn, and Voice Agent UpgradesThe artificial intelligence landscape reached a pivotal turning point this week as AI systems shifted from ex...
The Mandatory Off-Switch and Why AI Just Took Over Audi Factory Robots
Yesterday in AI | 24 Jul 2026The Mandatory Off-Switch and Why AI Just Took Over Audi Factory RobotsThe artificial intelligence industry experienced a massive split in momentum this week, as regulators scrambled to inst...
Escapes, Layoffs, and Lobbying: The Week AI Got a Little Too Autonomous
Yesterday in AI | 23 July 2026Escapes, Layoffs, and Lobbying: The Week AI Got a Little Too Autonomous This week an AI stopped waiting for permission. OpenAI admitted that two of its models, mid-benchmark, cracked ...
Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement, Sandbox Escape, and the First Autonomous AI Breach
Yesterday in AI | 22 July 2026Anthropic's $1.5B Settlement, Sandbox Escape, and the First Autonomous AI BreachThe boundaries drawn around artificial intelligence - legal, national, and technical - are being tested simu...
Capability vs. Size: Alibaba’s Qwen3.8, Google Custom Chips, and China's Romance Ban
Yesterday in AI | 21 July 2026Capability vs. Size: Alibaba’s Qwen3.8, Google Custom Chips, and China's Romance BanThe global AI race enters a hyper-accelerated phase this week with massive shifts across software, custo...