Today in AI — 17 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.
In a single 24-hour window, Google gave away a native Gemini Mac app, Perplexity began charging $200/month for an always-on desktop agent, and Mozilla dropped an open-source alternative for enterprises who refuse vendor lock-in. Three radically different...
Google launched Gemini for Mac with a system-wide Option+Space shortcut, Chrome turned prompts into reusable one-click Skills, and Microsoft gave Copilot the track-changes audit trail that lawyers demand. Three platform moves in 24 hours that share a...
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
In one day, an unreleased Anthropic design tool wiped billions from Figma, Adobe, and Wix. OpenAI acqui-hired a personal finance startup to fold into ChatGPT. Microsoft revealed always-on autonomous agents for Copilot. The companies that built the models...
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
AI narrows the performance gap between junior and senior workers. That sounds like progress — until you realise nobody is building the expertise that made senior workers valuable in the first place.
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.
Stanford's annual AI Index and PwC's performance study both landed today with the same uncomfortable finding: there are two entirely different AI realities. Insiders see a gold rush — Vercel's riding agent-built apps toward an IPO, 'Claude mania' is...
The 5% of companies seeing real returns from AI spend 70% of their effort on process redesign and organisational change, not on the technology. Everyone else is repeating the same mistake factories made when they swapped steam engines for electric motors...
OpenAI halved its Pro price to directly target Claude Code users. Anthropic shipped an advisor architecture that cuts agent costs by 85%. Shopify opened its platform to every major coding agent at once. The AI competition has moved from model benchmarks to...
Today's top AI news — curated links and commentary on the stories that matter for product builders.