Yesterday in AI
A rundown of all of the important stories in AI that happened yesterday in 10 minutes or less.
Episodes
43 episodes
The AI business throne just changed hands for the first time ever.
Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 15, 2026The AI business throne just changed hands for the first time ever.Something happened Thursday that has never happened before, and it involves two companies racing toward IPOs. A startup went...
Your cursor has done one thing for 50 years. Google just decided it should do a lot more.
Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 14, 2026Your cursor has done one thing for 50 years. Google just decided it should do a lot more.Google just rebuilt the cursor. Amazon handed your shopping cart to an agent. And workers at some o...
A $33B AI chip goes public in 48 hours, and hackers just used AI to write their first real cyberattack
Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 13, 2026A $33B AI chip goes public in 48 hours, and hackers just used AI to write their first real cyberattackAI's cybersecurity cold war stopped being theoretical yesterday. Google confirmed the...
When AI started pulling off the kind of moves that used to live only in science fiction
Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 12, 2026When AI started pulling off the kind of moves that used to live only in science fictionThis episode covers the week AI stopped being theoretical about cyber threats, and what that shift mea...
Someone just leaked Google's hand before Google I/O.
Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 11, 2026Someone just leaked Google's hand before Google I/O.A developer digging through a routine app update found 7 hidden Gemini models Google hasn't announced yet — and the names ...
Claude Knows When You're Watching
Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 9, 2026Claude Knows When You're WatchingAnthropic built a tool that reads what Claude is actually thinking before it decides what to say, and what they found about its safety behavior will make yo...
The Day AI Copied Itself...And Five Other Stories You Didn't See Coming
Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 8, 2026The Day AI Copied Itself...And Five Other Stories You Didn't See ComingSomething just happened in AI research that wasn't supposed to happen yet — and the researchers who caught it aren't sur...
A startup nobody saw coming just challenged the architecture that every major AI model is built on
Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 7, 2026A startup nobody saw coming just challenged the architecture that every major AI model is built onA new AI model quietly launched this week with a claim that should make every AI engineer s...
When OpenAI's Nonprofit Promise Was Called "A Lie" In Court
Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 6, 2026When OpenAI's Nonprofit Promise Was Called "A Lie" In CourtA 2017 journal entry just became evidence in one of the biggest trials in AI history. GPT-5.5 is the new default and the announce...
OpenAI just rewrote what one of its biggest products is, and two labs are now racing toward the same destination.
Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 5, 2026OpenAI just rewrote what one of its biggest products is, and two labs are now racing toward the same destination.Wall Street's heaviest hitters just put serious money behind embedding Claude...
Everyone's drawing lines, and AI keeps crossing them anyway
Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 4, 2026Everyone's drawing lines, and AI keeps crossing them anywayThis weekend, Hollywood, a Chinese courtroom, and a frontier AI benchmark all had something to say about what AI can...
The AI Company Suing Its Rival Secretly Used Its Rival's AI
Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 2, 2026The AI Company Suing Its Rival Secretly Used Its Rival's AIElon Musk took the stand in federal court and said something that may haunt xAI's legal strategy for the rest of the trial. Meanwh...
The French Lab Nobody's Talking About Just Hit $400M While Everyone Watched the Big Guys
Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 1, 2026The French Lab Nobody's Talking About Just Hit $400M While Everyone Watched the Big GuysBig Tech just revealed what $130 billion in a single quarter actually buys you, and the answer is still...
Big Tech just proved the AI spending bill is starting to pay off. And they raised the bill.
Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 30, 2026Big Tech just proved the AI spending bill is starting to pay off. And they raised the bill.Wednesday was full of things that quietly change how AI actually works: one move from Stripe th...
Yesterday in AI - When the Company Building AI Can't Afford Its Own Ambitions
Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, April 29, 2026When the Company Building AI Can't Afford Its Own AmbitionsSomeone at the top of OpenAI is worried the bills are coming due before the revenue does. Google just handed the Pentagon a se...
Yesterday in AI - OpenAI just broke up with Microsoft. Sort of. And China just proved no AI startup is safe.
Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, April 28, 2026OpenAI just broke up with Microsoft. Sort of. And China just proved no AI startup is safe.Two massive deals fell apart or got rewritten in a single day — and they say more about where AI ...
Yesterday in AI - $40 billion, a California jury, and an AI that rewrote its own kill switch
Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 27, 2026$40 billion, a California jury, and an AI that rewrote its own kill switchThis weekend's coverage, someone wrote a $40 billion check, a courtroom in California got its...
Yesterday in AI - China just handed everyone its best model for free...and you should probably ask why
Yesterday in AI | Saturday, April 25, 2026China 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 infrastru...
Yesterday in AI - OpenAI just doubled the price of intelligence...and the benchmarks might actually back it up
Yesterday in AI | Friday, April 24, 2026OpenAI 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 ste...
Yesterday in AI - Coding wars, courtroom chaos, and a model that's giving national treasuries anxiety
Yesterday in AI | Thursday, April 23, 2026A $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 St...
Yesterday in AI - Your boss might be training an AI with your mouse clicks right now.
Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, April 22, 2026Your 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 attenti...
Yesterday in AI - Anthropic's big launch weekend didn't age well
Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, April 21, 2026Anthropic'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 o...
Yesterday in AI - The Weekend AI Got Physical
Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 20, 2026A 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 s...