OpenAI dropped a sweeping set of economic policy proposals on Monday - robot taxes, a Public Wealth Fund for every American, a federally subsidized four-day work week - just hours before Bernie Sanders introduced a bill to ban data center construction outright until Congress acts on AI. Meanwhile, OpenAI lost three senior executives simultaneously as a leaked cap table revealed Microsoft's $13 billion investment is now worth $215 billion on paper and a trillion-dollar IPO looms. Anthropic continued its rough stretch with 50,000 GitHub forks of accidentally-leaked Claude source code revealing two undisclosed features, including an always-on background agent called KAIROS - while the creator of Claude Code said the OpenClaw subscription cutoff was "not intentional." And Google DeepMind's AlphaEvolve is the story you don't want to miss: an AI that rewrote its own game theory algorithms and outperformed every human-designed version. The builders and the regulators are both speaking loudly this week, and they are pointing in completely opposite directions.

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Yesterday in AI — Weekend Recap | Monday, April 6, 2026

This weekend, Anthropic made two major moves: cutting off OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions (and sparking serious developer backlash), then turning around and dropping $400M on a stealth biotech startup. Meanwhile, Perplexity launched an AI tax filing tool, ChatGPT Voice Mode landed on Apple CarPlay, and Marc Andreessen gave the clearest explanation yet of why AI agents work — and why they're going to need bank accounts. On the roads, Waymo hit 500,000 paid rides a week while Baidu's robotaxi fleet froze mid-traffic in Wuhan. Plus: a hospital CEO wants to replace radiologists with AI, a San Diego attorney was hit with a $96K fine for AI-hallucinated court filings, and CISA is warning of an actively exploited critical flaw in the Langflow AI agent framework. Patch now if you're running it.

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Silicon Valley bought a talk show, Google gave away its crown jewels, and a lab study quietly confirmed one of the scarier things AI safety researchers have been warning about for years.

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The world's most celebrated AI safety lab accidentally left its entire codebase on the public internet, the same week venture capitalists bet nearly three hundred billion dollars that none of that messiness actually matters. Plus so much more!

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We're talking record-breaking money, a post-mortem on one of the industry's most hyped products, a landmark capability unlock for AI coding assistants, a raging philosophical debate about whether we've already hit artificial general intelligence, and a pointed warning about AI security risks.

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A shouting match, a broken promise, and a fundraising idea so alarming one co-founder nearly quit on the spot, but that's not all...

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A secret model leaked, a startup lost its entire founding team, robots walked the White House halls, and someone boldly predicted the world's first one-person billion-dollar company is just months away.

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Leaks, pivots, and war...oh my!

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Meta's metaverse retreat, Google's compression breakthrough, Apple's deeper Gemini gambit, the shutdown of OpenAI's social AI experiment, the benchmark problem, and the enterprise AI gap that keeps swallowing pilot budgets

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