Today in AI — 29 April 2026 - Mitchell Bryson
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
OpenAI committed $600 billion in compute spending betting that revenue would keep doubling. This week, the Wall Street Journal revealed it missed its own growth targets and its CFO is publicly questioning the plan. Meanwhile, Google just poured $40 billion...
Three stories from the same week reveal the AI industry pivoting to its next phase. DeepSeek slashed model prices by 90%, confirming that raw intelligence is commoditizing fast. OpenAI responded not by cutting prices but by announcing plans to build its own...
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
AI makes you faster at your job today while quietly degrading your ability to know when the job was done wrong. The more you delegate, the less equipped you are to catch the mistakes that matter.
Bezos builds a $38 billion AI lab in five months by poaching from everyone else. A young Beijing lab ships an open-weight model that beats Claude and GPT on coding benchmarks. Non-developers are flooding app stores with software they couldn't have built a...
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
In a single week, Anthropic launched Claude Design (tanking Figma's stock 7%), Adobe countered with its agentic Firefly AI Assistant at Summit, and OpenAI expanded Codex with computer use, image generation, and 90+ plugins. The AI labs aren't just building...
Humans telegraph uncertainty through hesitation, hedging, and tone. AI delivers hallucinated nonsense with the same polished authority as correct answers. Organisations built to read confidence as competence have no antibodies for this.
OpenAI kills Sora and launches a specialist life sciences model in the same week, Cursor's coding-only bet hits a $50B valuation, and Novo Nordisk locks in domain-specific AI for drug discovery. The pattern is unmistakable: horizontal AI products are...
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.