Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 15, 2026

The 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 public and crossed a number that has never been reached in a single trading day. Nvidia did something no company in history has done. And a quiet conversation you have today might be the first AI chat no one can ever read again. Oh, and a 133-year Ivy League tradition ended because of a chatbot.

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Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 14, 2026

Your 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 of the world's biggest tech companies are already gaming the AI metrics their bosses are tracking.

Today's episode covers seven stories: from a $2.1 billion bet on AI drug discovery, to a lawsuit accusing Meta of treating scam ads like a revenue instrument, to Hollywood's biggest names building something more concrete than a petition. There's also a product launch for legal teams that could finally make the "AI in our workflows" conversation real. Lots to get into.

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Yesterday in AI | Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A $33B AI chip goes public in 48 hours, and hackers just used AI to write their first real cyberattack

AI's cybersecurity cold war stopped being theoretical yesterday. Google confirmed the first case of hackers using AI to find and weaponize a zero-day flaw, and a massive supply chain attack is quietly targeting the tools developers use every day. There's a $33 billion chip company going public Thursday that most people are sleeping on. Mira Murati's first product since leaving OpenAI just challenged the industry's biggest assumption. And Apple has six weeks to flip AI accessibility for two billion people.

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Yesterday in AI | Tuesday, May 12, 2026

When AI started pulling off the kind of moves that used to live only in science fiction

This episode covers the week AI stopped being theoretical about cyber threats, and what that shift means for every organization relying on software to exist. There's also a confessional from inside one of the biggest AI labs about behavior that took a year to trace and fix, a $4 billion bet on the part of AI nobody wants to talk about, and a math breakthrough where the most useful moment came from an output the AI itself rejected. If you thought you had another 12 months before any of this got real, this episode has a different read on that timeline.

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Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, May 11, 2026

Someone 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 point to something big coming later this month. Meanwhile, a French startup's robotic hands went viral for all the right reasons, a major American company quietly handed most of its coding to AI, and a data center approval in Utah ended with local commissioners fleeing their own meeting. Plus: the personal AI agent wars are heating up, and Nvidia is making moves that go well beyond selling chips.

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Yesterday in AI | Saturday, May 9, 2026

Claude Knows When You're Watching

Anthropic 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 you think twice about how AI testing works. OpenAI crossed a threshold two years in the making with voice AI that can finally reason in real time. One of tech's most respected infrastructure companies just cut a fifth of its workforce while posting strong earnings, and the market punished them anyway. Plus: a scientific system that's quietly improving the math AI itself runs on, and a data point from China that suggests the AI race looks different depending on which map you're reading.

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Yesterday in AI | Friday, May 8, 2026

The Day AI Copied Itself...And Five Other Stories You Didn't See Coming

Something just happened in AI research that wasn't supposed to happen yet — and the researchers who caught it aren't sure what to do next. The most unlikely business partnership in the AI era just got formalized in a Memphis data center. Google wants to connect an AI to your medical records and call it a coach. A high-profile deposition dropped a bombshell claim that one of AI's most powerful executives lied about a safety decision. And a legendary 23-year-old virtual world just became the next frontier for AI research.

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Yesterday in AI | Thursday, May 7, 2026

A startup nobody saw coming just challenged the architecture that every major AI model is built on

A new AI model quietly launched this week with a claim that should make every AI engineer stop and pay attention. Google got sued by a musician for something its AI made up. Apple just opened a door it has never opened before. And Anthropic's relationship with its biggest rival is more tangled than anyone expected. One of today's stories involves a $200 billion number that genuinely doesn't make sense until it does.

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