Audio briefing for Wednesday, April 22, 2026 — the day's top four AI research and industry stories, narrated in depth (roughly 10–15 minutes). Today's stories: (1) Kimi K2.6 released — now the leading open-weights model (Moonshot) — Moonshot released Kimi K2.6, described as a "natively multimodal model, powerful coding capabilities, and Agent performance" spanning multiple modes. (2) Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report — Qwen3.5-Omni: an omnimodal LLM from Alibaba achieving state-of-the-art on audio-and-audio-visual benchmarks across text, image, audio, and video. (3) Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Sofroniew et al. (4) ChatGPT's new Images 2.0 model — strong text generation in images — OpenAI shipped Images 2.0 inside ChatGPT. Full written digest with all ranked items: https://wolfdigest.com/digests/2026-04-22.html