Apr 13 – 19, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 44 stories

1. 1Google’s Aletheia Advances the State of the Art of Fully Autonomous Agentic Math Research85
2. 2Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 with coding, visual reasoning improvements
3. 3Gemma 4 just replaced my whole local LLM stack - MakeUseOf

The AI products people actually use. · 152 stories

1. 1A new programming model for durable execution78
2. 2LinkedIn’s AI Agent Product Becomes a Surprise Bright Spot for Microsoft
3. 3Adobe Is Working With Anthropic to Bring a Creative AI Agent to Claude - CNET

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 0 stories

1. Nothing cleared the bar today.

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 58 stories

1. 1China’s DeepSeek is Raising Money for First Time, At $10 Billion-Plus Valuation92
2. 2Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital to Co-Lead Cursor Investment at $50 Billion Valuation
3. 3Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 33 stories

1. 1OpenAI to Spend More Than $20 Billion on Cerebras Chips, Receive Equity Stake92
2. 2TSMC first-quarter profit rises 58%, beats estimates as AI demand fuels record run
3. 3Meta commits to 1 gigawatt of custom chips with Broadcom as Hock Tan decides to leave board

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 113 stories

1. 1Senator Hassan Demands Answers From ElevenLabs After FBI Reports $893 Million In AI Voice Scams78
2. 2China Writes The AI Companion GDPR For A $30B Market
3. 3Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’