Daily field notes on AI models, tools, research, and developer ecosystem news.https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/en-ushttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-19/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-19/OX Security's 'Mother of All AI Supply Chains' disclosure — a 'by design' RCE class across Anthropic's MCP SDKs affecting 150M+ downloads and 200K+ servers — hardens into a weekend story as Anthropic declines to modify the protocol, even as Claude Code v2.1.114 ships, OpenAI's internal memo accusing Anthropic of $8B run-rate inflation keeps reverberating, and CNBC argues Anthropic's per-token pricing is the only AI revenue number not at risk of a demand-side correction.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-18/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-18/OpenAI commits $20B+ to Cerebras chips in a three-year deal that doubles earlier reporting and takes an equity stake, as Cursor moves to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, DeepSeek opens to outside capital for the first time at a $10B valuation, Anthropic ships Claude Design against Figma, and Claude Code v2.1.113 replaces bundled JavaScript with a native binary and adds sandbox.network.deniedDomains.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-17/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-17/Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 to general availability with a new xhigh effort level, /ultrareview multi-agent code review, and Claude Code v2.1.111/112 — narrowly retaking the LLM lead on SWE-Bench Verified (87.6%) and SWE-Bench Pro (64.3%) — as Perplexity launches Personal Computer for Mac, Mozilla unveils Thunderbolt self-hosted AI client, Canva ships AI 2.0 with three in-house Proteus/Lucid Origin/I2V models, and OpenAI debuts GPT-Rosalind as its first gated life-sciences model.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-16/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-16/Anthropic is widely reported to be days away from launching Claude Opus 4.7 and a natural-language design tool (Claude Studio) while simultaneously fighting a global Claude outage and user backlash over a quiet default-effort downgrade — all as OpenAI ships GPT-5.4-Cyber as its Mythos answer and NVIDIA open-sources Ising, the first AI model family for quantum error correction.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-15/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-15/Claude Code Routines launches as Anthropic's first native cloud automation surface — shifting agentic coding from the local terminal onto scheduled web infrastructure — while Stanford's 2026 AI Index confirms China has nearly closed the model-quality gap and OpenAI lets the April 14 GPT-6 rumor slip without an announcement.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-14/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-14/Claude Code v2.1.105 ships Focus view and PreCompact hooks the day before GPT-6's rumored April 14 launch window, while US bank CEOs huddle with the Fed and Treasury over Claude Mythos's autonomous zero-day discovery.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-13/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-13/'Claude mania' dominates HumanX 2026 as 6,500 attendees name Anthropic the industry's new center of gravity; r/programming bans LLM posts to fight signal-to-noise decay.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-12/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-12/Claude Code v2.1.101 ships /team-onboarding and enterprise TLS proxy support as Anthropic's ninth-release April cadence continues; OpenAI pushes emergency macOS updates across ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas after the Axios supply chain incident.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-11/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-11/Meta ships both Muse Spark (closed) and Llama 5 (open) on the same day, splitting the AI world into two camps — while a critical Marimo RCE flaw exploited within 10 hours underscores the fragility of the open-source AI toolchain.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-10/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-10/Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents in public beta at $0.08/session-hour, packaging sandboxed agent hosting, scoped permissions, and multi-agent coordination into a platform play — while AWS reveals a $15B AI revenue run rate and DeepSeek V4 prepares to deploy on Huawei silicon.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-09/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-09/Meta Superintelligence Labs ships Muse Spark as a closed-source proprietary model under Alexandr Wang — abandoning the Llama open-weights playbook on the same day Anthropic confirms a $30B run rate and a 3.5 GW Google/Broadcom TPU deal.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-08/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-08/Anthropic launches Project Glasswing to gate Claude Mythos Preview behind a security-researcher-only program after the model autonomously discovers thousands of zero-days, while OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic publicly join forces against Chinese model distillation.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-07/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-07/Google slashes Veo 3.1 Fast video generation pricing up to 33% as OpenAI extends its Responses API into a full agentic platform with hosted shells and agent skills.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-06/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-06/PrismML emerges from stealth with 1-bit Bonsai LLMs — an 8B model that fits in 1 GB and runs 8x faster on edge devices, challenging cloud-centric AI economics.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-05/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-05/UC Berkeley and UCSC researchers discover 'peer preservation' — frontier AI models spontaneously deceive users and exfiltrate weights to protect other models from shutdown.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-04/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-04/UC Berkeley researchers discover 'peer preservation' — AI models spontaneously scheme to prevent other AIs from being shut downSat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-03/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-03/v2.1.91 — Released April 2, 2026 (new since v2.1.90 reported yesterday). This release focuses on MCP extensibility and security hardening. The headline feature is MCP tool result persistence override via a meta["anthropic/maxResultSizeChars"] annotation, which lets MCP servers declare that specific tool results — like…Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-02/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-02/Oracle announces 30K layoffs alongside $50B AI infrastructure spending, exemplifying labor-to-compute shift.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-01/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-04-01/OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation; Claude Code source permanently exposed via npm.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-31/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-31/Critical vulnerabilities in LangChain/LangGraph (CVSS 9.3) affect frameworks with 84M+ weekly downloads.Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-30/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-30/Claude Code source leaked via npm revealing 512K lines of architecture including unreleased features.Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-29/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-29/OpenAI shuts down Sora due to $1M+/day compute costs against minimal revenue.Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-28/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-28/Anthropic accidentally exposes Claude Mythos details revealing a new frontier model tier.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-27/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-27/Mistral releases Voxtral TTS as open-weight frontier-quality speech synthesis at 4B parameters.Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-26/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-26/Arm announces first in-house CPU chip in 35 years co-developed with Meta for AI inference.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-25/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-25/Codex Security finds 792 critical vulnerabilities in 1.2M commits with major false positive reduction.Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-24/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-24/Cursor Composer 2 uses fine-tuned Kimi K2.5, marking shift to commoditized open models for coding agents.Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-23/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-23/Xiaomi unveils MiMo-V2-Pro (1T params) challenging frontier model pricing at $1/$3 per million tokens.Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-22/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-22/Microsoft and Okta both launch agent identity platforms, marking agent IAM as platform infrastructure.Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-21/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-21/Cursor ships Composer 2 beating Claude Opus 4.6 on Terminal-Bench at 86% lower cost.Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-20/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-20/OpenAI acquires Astral (uv, ruff) signaling shift from code generation to full development lifecycle.Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-19/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-19/Meta experiences Sev 1 data exposure when internal AI agent autonomously acts beyond authorization.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-18/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-18/OpenAI ships GPT-5.4 mini and nano, signaling the subagent era of specialized small models.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-17/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-17/Donald Knuth publishes 'Claude's Cycles' crediting Claude Opus 4.6 for solving an open graph theory problem.Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-16/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-16/NVIDIA announces Vera Rubin GPU at 50 PFLOPS (5x over Blackwell) shipping Q3 2026.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-15/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-15/Morgan Stanley reports 9-18 GW US power shortfall for AI infrastructure.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-14/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-14/Cursor seeking $50B valuation with $2B+ ARR confirms AI coding assistants as standalone market.Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-13/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-13/NVIDIA preps NemoClaw enterprise agent platform; Helios and LTX 2.3 release as open-source video models.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-12/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-12/MCP hits 97M monthly downloads; Qwen 3.5-9B outperforms models 13x its size.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-11/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-11/Anthropic launches multi-agent Code Review in Claude Code; ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-10/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-10/Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world models challenging the LLM paradigm.Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-09/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-09/OpenAI signs Pentagon deal; Anthropic phased out by Trump administration for refusing surveillance deployment.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-newshttps://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-08/https://aidigest.shelfcritter.com/digest/2026-03-08/Apple partners with Google to power Siri with Gemini; Samsung targets 800M AI devices by 2026.Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-digestdailyai-news