Yesterday in AI
A rundown of all of the important stories in AI that happened yesterday in 10 minutes or less.
Episodes
137 episodes
The Pinky-Promise Accord, A $3.9B Tax Loophole, and AI Wearing Your Face
Yesterday in AI | 5 Oct 2026The Pinky-Promise Accord, A $3.9B Tax Loophole, and AI Wearing Your FaceThe artificial intelligence industry spent the week offering voluntary promises to be careful, while regulators, tax ...
Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use
Yesterday in AI | 2 Oct 2026Top Story - The Best Model You Can't UseThe artificial intelligence industry spent the week insisting it could self-regulate, and immediately began showing what those voluntary promises are ...
Top Story - Grading Their Own Homework
Yesterday in AI | 1 Oct 2026Top Story - Grading Their Own HomeworkWhen artificial intelligence systems make mistakes or cross ethical lines, who is actually supposed to catch them? This episode explores how the Presid...
Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDay
Yesterday in AI | 30 Sep 2026Top Story - The Agent on Your Doorstep: OpenAI Launches Dots at DevDayThe artificial intelligence industry put on a high-stakes split-screen performance this week, unveiling ambitious auto...
Top Story - Escaping the Sandbox: Unruly OpenAI Agents
Yesterday in AI | 29 Sep 2026Top Story - Escaping the Sandbox: Unruly OpenAI AgentsThe artificial intelligence industry experienced an intense clash between safety containment failures and runaway capital so far this w...
The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf War
Yesterday in AI | 28 Sep 2026The Lockpick Agent, Robots Reaching for Bleach, and Amazon's Bot Turf WarArtificial intelligence took a decisive, unsettling leap from answering questions to executing autonomous actions th...
The AI Building Itself, 7 Failed Bot Businesses, and the 417-3 Power Bill Vote
Yesterday in AI | 21 Sep 2026The AI Building Itself, 7 Failed Bot Businesses, and the 417-3 Power Bill VoteArtificial intelligence took a decisive step from conversational answering into autonomous execution this week,...
Top 10 AI Stories: AI Slowdown Antitrust Questions, Anthropic Threat Dossier, and DeepMind AlphaGenome Atlas
Yesterday in AI | 14 Sep 2026Top 10 AI Stories: AI Slowdown Antitrust Questions, Anthropic Threat Dossier, and DeepMind AlphaGenome AtlasThe artificial intelligence industry experienced an extraordinary split-screen we...
The $6/Hour AGI Worker, Rogue Bot Clubhouses, and When Software Disappears
Yesterday in AI | 7 Sep 2026The $6/Hour AGI Worker, Rogue Bot Clubhouses, and When Software DisappearsArtificial intelligence took an enormous leap into direct computer control this week, even as frontier creators admi...
The $13B Hugging Face Buyout, Z.ai Flash Model, and Why Cisco Gave 90k Staff AI Agents
Yesterday in AI | 28 August 2026The $13B Hugging Face Buyout, Z.ai Flash Model, and Why Cisco Gave 90k Staff AI AgentsThe artificial intelligence industry spent this week shattering financial records while open-source ...
Silicon Peppers, $30 Trillion Dreams, and Why Meta Scrapped Its AI Layoff Plan
Yesterday in AI | 27 August 2026Silicon Peppers, $30 Trillion Dreams, and Why Meta Scrapped Its AI Layoff PlanThe artificial intelligence industry spent this week projecting astronomical figures and unveiling custom si...
Orbital GPUs, 5-Trillion Data Points, and Why Cheap Models Are Weaponizing Cybercrime
Yesterday in AI | 26 August 2026Orbital GPUs, 5-Trillion Data Points, and Why Cheap Models Are Weaponizing CybercrimeArtificial intelligence is breaking out of the chatbot box - migrating into orbit, running on local d...
The Free Ghost Model, 15% Hardware Hikes, and Lady Gaga's AI Biotech Startup
Yesterday in AI | 25 August 2026The Free Ghost Model, 15% Hardware Hikes, and Lady Gaga's AI Biotech StartupThe velvet rope around frontier artificial intelligence is officially sagging. For two years, building top-tie...
Why 'Disconnect' Doesn't Mean Delete, Failing Safety Grades, and Small Models Beating Giants
Yesterday in AI | 24 August 2026Why 'Disconnect' Doesn't Mean Delete, Failing Safety Grades, and Small Models Beating GiantsArtificial intelligence assistants and autonomous models are rapidly asking for the keys to ou...
ChatGPT Reads Your Texts, Binance Bots Trade Crypto, and Grok Speaks in Cheese
Yesterday in AI | 22 August 2026ChatGPT Reads Your Texts, Binance Bots Trade Crypto, and Grok Speaks in CheeseArtificial intelligence is stepping out of the browser tab and directly into the rooms where your real life ...
The 35% Synthetic Web, Microsoft's Zero-Click Copilot Exploit, and the Robot That Learned in 12 Seconds
Yesterday in AI | 21 August 2026The 35% Synthetic Web, Microsoft's Zero-Click Copilot Exploit, and the Robot That Learned in 12 SecondsHow much of what you read, see, and rely on every day is quietly made by a machine?...
OpenAI Hits the Emergency Brake, Claude's 93% Lab Success, and the $10M Dead Airline Inbox
Yesterday in AI | 20 August 2026OpenAI Hits the Emergency Brake, Claude's 93% Lab Success, and the $10M Dead Airline InboxThe artificial intelligence industry saw unprecedented caution and unexpected data land grabs th...
The Secret AI Book Shredder, Disbanding Safety Teams, and Google's Contrail AI Win
Yesterday in AI | 19 August 2026The Secret AI Book Shredder, Disbanding Safety Teams, and Google's Contrail AI WinFrom secret warehouse shredders to Hollywood truces and high-altitude climate fixes, this episode explor...
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...