AI Friday

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April 2026

Every edition published this month. The archive keeps intentional gaps exactly where they occurred.

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  1. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars are heating up on the inference side. Mistral dropped Medium 3.5, ChatGPT's ad infrastructure is under scruti…
  2. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the AI partnership landscape keeps shifting, and the money is getting real. Big moves from OpenAI and AWS on managed agents…
  3. Good Tuesday, NOLA. The AI partnership map just shifted dramatically: Microsoft and OpenAI are ending their exclusive revenue-sharing deal, GitHub Copilot is m…
  4. Good Monday, NOLA. Today's vibe: agents in the wild are getting messy, and it's teaching us real lessons. We've got a sobering postmortem on an AI agent that d…
  5. Good Sunday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars cool off a bit and we get some legitimately interesting applications. An amateur solved a 60-year-old math prob…
  6. Good Saturday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars just heated up. Yesterday OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 with serious reasoning gains, and now DeepSeek V4 just dropp…
  7. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the model wars just got real. OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5 with major reasoning improvements, and DeepSeek V4 is here proving you do…
  8. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: agents are becoming real. OpenAI just shipped Workspace Agents for ChatGPT—AI that actually does work inside your business t…
  9. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: clarity after confusion. ChatGPT Images 2.0 just dropped with better quality and faster generation, Claude Code pricing dra…
  10. Good Tuesday, NOLA. The post-Claude Design wave keeps rolling—today we're digging into what happens when AI tooling actually ships fast (Deezer's seeing 44% of…
  11. Good Monday, NOLA. The post-Opus 4.7 energy is still simmering—we've got Claude system prompt deep-dives, fresh token counting tools, and a reality check on AI…
  12. Good Sunday, NOLA. The post-Opus 4.7 dust is settling, and we're seeing what happens when AI design tools actually work—plus some big industry moves that sugge…
  13. Good Saturday, NOLA. Yesterday's Opus 4.7 launch is already sparking the interesting conversations — we're seeing what happens when an AI actually becomes usef…
  14. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's the day Anthropic's been building toward: Claude Opus 4.7 is here, and it's a meaningful step up across the board. Meanwhile, Qwen j…
  15. Good Thursday, NOLA. Big day for mobile AI: Google's Gemma 4 now runs fully offline on iPhone, no internet required. Meanwhile, Claude had a rough day with wid…
  16. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Claude Code just got a major upgrade with Routines — reusable workflows that could change how you use AI for coding. Meanwhile, Google's…
  17. Good Tuesday, NOLA. The AI coding wars keep heating up — everyone's racing to own the developer stack (we covered this yesterday), but today we're seeing the r…
  18. Good Monday, NOLA. The AI coding wars are officially heating up — everyone's racing to own the developer stack. Meanwhile, GPUs just went to space, Apple's qui…
  19. Good Sunday, NOLA. Quiet weekend, but some solid moves brewing: researchers just showed how top AI agent benchmarks can be gamed, Cirrus Labs is joining OpenAI…
  20. Good Saturday, NOLA. Weekend vibe: Linux just blessed AI contributors with official guidance, a new YC startup is automating code reviews, and the conversation…
  21. Good Friday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Claude's hitting some real-world accuracy issues, the Claude Code ecosystem is getting serious scrutiny (and developers are vo…
  22. Good Thursday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Anthropic just dropped Claude Managed Agents — a major new capability for building autonomous workflows — and the broader st…
  23. Good Wednesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Anthropic's making serious moves on security and cybersecurity capabilities, Google's gone offline-first with dictation, an…
  24. Good Tuesday, NOLA. Today's vibe: Claude Code keeps proving itself despite hiccups, the compute arms race is getting real, and Anthropic just locked down major…
  25. Good Monday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the Claude Code story keeps reshaping what's possible—a developer just shipped a project in three months that took eight years…
  26. Good Sunday, NOLA. The Claude Code vulnerability story keeps deepening—AI is now genuinely accelerating security research in unexpected ways. Meanwhile, the in…
  27. Good Saturday, NOLA. Today's vibe: the Claude Code story keeps unfolding in wild ways—vulnerability research is now genuinely accelerated by AI—while the indus…
  28. Today's big story is OpenAI acquiring TBPN, the popular tech talk show that interviews founders and AI execs live every weekday. Google's countering with Gemma…
  29. The big story today: Claude Code's entire source code leaked through a misconfigured file, and the internet had a field day reverse-engineering Anthropic's pla…
  30. Today's a wild one: Claude Code's source code leaked via an NPM packaging mistake, revealing everything from fake tools to "frustration regexes." Meanwhile, Gi…