Wolf Digest

Audio briefing for Tuesday, May 5, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Full written digest: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-05-05.html

Audio briefing for Monday, May 4, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Full written digest: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-05-04.html

Audio briefing for Friday, May 1, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Full written digest: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-05-01.html

Audio briefing for Thursday, April 30, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Full written digest: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-30.html

Audio briefing for Wednesday, April 29, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Full written digest: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-29.html

Audio briefing for Tuesday, April 28, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) OpenAI–Microsoft AGI clause expires; deal restructured to enable $50B AWS partnership — OpenAI and Microsoft restructured the central commercial clause of their relationship today, retiring the long-running 'AGI clause' that for six years had said Microsoft's commercial intellectual-property rights to… (2) Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B at $5.1B valuation to build AI that learns without human data — David Silver — co-author of AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and the 'era of experience' position paper Silver and Sutton circulated in 2024 — has closed one-point-one billion dollars at a five-point-one-billion valuation for… (3) Musk vs. Altman trial opens in N.D. Cal. — verdict could constrain OpenAI's for-profit conversion ahead of IPO — The Musk-versus-Altman trial opened in the Northern District of California this week, the culmination of more than two years of pre-trial filings, mediation attempts, and amended complaints. (4) DeepSeek V4 preview drops with extended-context inference; community parses Friday's release — DeepSeek released a preview build of V4 late Friday, and the weekend has been spent by the community parsing what the open release actually means. Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-28.html

Audio briefing for Monday, April 27, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) DeepSeek V4 — Day-0 OSS serving + verified RL via SGLang and Miles — The SGLang and Miles teams announced day-zero open-source support for DeepSeek V4, covering both inference and reinforcement-learning training of V4's hybrid sparse-attention architecture, manifold-constrained… (2) OpenAI publishes 'Our principles' — Altman's expanded charter for the AGI era — Sam Altman's first major policy post since the Foundation expansion lays out five principles — democratization, empowerment, universal prosperity, resilience, and adaptability — that OpenAI says will guide its decisions… (3) Cohere acquires Aleph Alpha to form a $20B 'sovereign AI' champion — Canadian-headquartered Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha to create a transatlantic sovereign-AI alternative to the US frontier labs, with the explicit blessing of both governments. (4) Apple confirms John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook as CEO — Apple confirmed Monday that John Ternus, the company's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will take over as CEO from Tim Cook later this year, ending fourteen years of Cook leadership. Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-27.html

Audio briefing for Saturday, April 25, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) DeepSeek V4 deep dive: 1.6T-A49B Pro / 284B-A13B Flash, runnable on Huawei Ascend — The DeepSeek V4 follow-up coverage that landed Friday and Saturday is denser than the initial Thursday drop and has shifted the framing of the model. (2) Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute — TechCrunch's reporting on Friday details Google's commitment to invest up to forty billion dollars in Anthropic in a mix of cash and Google Cloud compute credits, structured to be drawn against incrementally as… (3) Apple's new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy Cursor for $60B — Friday's reporting in TechCrunch covers two intertwined transitions that together reshape the AI-coding-assistant market and Apple's posture in the platform layer. (4) OpenAI publishes the GPT-5.5 prompting guide — GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API , OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the new model. Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-25.html

Audio briefing for Friday, April 24, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) GPT-5.5 launch: frontier model + Codex superapp (OpenAI) — OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, positioned as "a new class of intelligence for real work" and rolled out across ChatGPT and the Codex app, with API access held back pending additional safeguards. (2) DeepSeek V4-Pro and V4-Flash — largest open-weights model ever, aggressive pricing — DeepSeek ended its five-month silence since V3.2 Speciale with two preview models in the V4 series, both MIT-licensed, both 1-million-token context, both mixture-of-experts. (3) What We Learned Building Cloud Agents — Cognition published a long follow-up to its earlier posts on multi-agent patterns, this time dissecting the infrastructure demands of cloud-based software engineering agents. (4) UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling — UniT, the top-voted paper on Hugging Face Daily Papers for April 24, tackles one of the core bottlenecks in humanoid foundation models: the kinematic mismatch that makes massive egocentric human video data hard to use… Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-24.html

Audio briefing for Thursday, April 23, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model — Alibaba released Qwen3.6-27B today, and the interesting part is not that it is another checkpoint in the Qwen line but that the 27 billion parameter dense model outperforms the previous Qwen3.5 flagship, which was a 397… (2) Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Anthropic's Transformer Circuits team, led by Sofroniew and collaborators, published a paper today identifying internal representations of emotion concepts inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 and demonstrating, through causal… (3) LLaDA2.0-Uni: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Diffusion Large Language Model — LLaDA 2.0 Uni, from inclusionAI, landed at the top of Hugging Face Daily Papers today with 86 likes, and it is the most ambitious entry so far in the growing effort to build unified multimodal models on top of discrete… (4) Multi-Agents: What's Actually Working — Walden Yan published a piece on the Cognition blog today revisiting a position he took a year ago, which was that multi-agent systems were mostly a source of churn rather than capability, and updating it with what the… Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-23.html