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Interesting Frontier AI Lab Stories

April 2026 (Updated May 2026)

Older interesting headlines about Frontier AI labs that may have scrolled off the timeline.

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• Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby were on stage in SF today and here are the 9 best things they said: 1. "There is a 50% chance that OpenAI goes bankrupt in the next 18mos" -Mallaby — Deedy Das/Twitter — 20-04-2026

• She says ChatGPT is responsible for her son’s death. CA lawmakers are listening — The Sacramento Bee — 20-04-2026

• Exclusive: Leaked Deck Reveals StackAdapt’s Playbook for ChatGPT Ads — Adweek — 20-04-2024

• Beijing Yizhuang ran its second humanoid robot half-marathon on Sunday. One year of progress in one set of numbers. — Poe Zhao/Twitter — 19-04-2026

• New preliminary results: how people actually use ChatGPT. First conversation-level look at Global South usage. — Kiran Garimella/Twitter — 18-04-2026

• DeepSeek’s $300M Structural Problem — HelloChinaTech — 17-04-2026

• The Battle for OpenAI’s Soul — WIRED — 16-04-2026

• Sam Altman’s Side Hustles Blur the Line Between OpenAI’s Interests and His Own — The Wall Street Journal — 16-04-2026

• In our corrected figures, hyperscalers hold 71% of world AI compute — Epoch AI/Twitter — 16-04-2026

• Jensen Huang – Will Nvidia’s moat persist? — Dwarkesh Podcast — 15-04-2026

• Insane datapoint from new Goldman report on AI and software — Callum Williams/Twitter — 15-04-2026

• What will be scarce? — Ghosts of Electricity — 14-04-2026

• Online response to the attack on Sam Altman’s house shows a generational divide — Fortune — 14-04-2026

• Anthropic Flooded With Offers to Invest at Up to $800 Billion Valuation — Business Insider — 14-04-2026

• Anthropic Opposes the ‘Extreme’ AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed — Wired — 14-04-2026

• OpenAI investors question $852bn valuation as strategy shifts — Financial Times — 14-04-2026

• The 2026 AI Index Report — Stanford HAI — 13-04-2026

• Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview's cyber capabilities — AISI — 13-04-2026

• We're monitoring the air and water around Meta's data center in Louisiana. Here's why. — WWNO — 13-04-2026

• I’m locked out… (ChatGPT voice demo) — Huskirl/Twitter — 10-04-2026

• US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company — The Guardian — 09-04-2026

• China’s AI coding boom has an economics problem — Hello China Tech — 13-04-2026

• The vibes are off at OpenAI — The Verge — 08-04-2026

• OpenAI’s IPO Value Is Threatened by Sam Altman’s Lack of Focus — Bloomberg — 08-04-2026

• Data Center Bans: Tracking State and Local Moratoriums Across the U.S. — Data Center Bans — 07-04-2026

• Project Glasswing - Securing critical software for the AI era — Anthropic — 07-04-2026

• Anthropic reveals $30bn run rate, plan to use new Google TPU — The Register — 07-04-2026

• Google’s AI Overviews Face Trust Crisis as Accuracy Doubts Persist — The New York Times — 07-04-2026

• Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? — The New Yorker — 06-04-2026

• How the Iran War Could Devastate the AI Industry: The Helium and Bromine Crisis — Transformer News — 02-04-2026

• Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model — Anthropic — 02-04-2026

• OpenAI Buys Some Positive News — Wired — 02-04-2026

• Cheap Power, Competitive Politics: Electricity Costs, Partisan Lean, and Data Center Location in the United States — Kyle L. Saunders — 01-04-2026

• 100 Hours Inside Kimi — Rui Ma/Twitter — 01-04-2026

• The Catholic Priest Who Helped Write Anthropic’s A.I. Ethics Code — Observer — 31-03-2026

• Inside 'Project Mario': How Demis Hassabis and DeepMind Are Engineering the Future of Intelligence — Colossus — 31-03-2026

• The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI — The Wall Street Journal — 27-03-2026

• TRIBE v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain — Meta — 26-03-2026

• Can an A.I. Chatbot Be Your Romantic Partner? — The New York Times — 26-03-2026

• AI's enterprise revenue race: Anthropic vs. OpenAI — Axios — 18-03-2026

• What 81,000 people want from AI — Anthropic — 18-03-2026

• Companies’ first AI check is going to Claude via Ramp Economics Lab — Ara Kharazian/Twitter — 11-03-2026

• How Anthropic Became the Most Disruptive Company in the World — TIME — 11-03-2026

• 'It means missile defence on datacentres': drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower — The Guardian — 07-03-2026

• President Trump during a phone interview this morning: 'I fired Anthropic. Anthropic is in trouble because I fired [them] like dogs.’ — Politico via Andrew Curran/Twitter — 05-03-2026

• Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System — Lawfare — 02-03-2026

• What Rights Do AI Companies Have in Government Contracts? — Jessica Tillipman — 01-03-2026

• It would take Pentagon months to replace Anthropic's AI tools: sources — Defense One — 26-02-2026

• Introducing Claude's Corner — Substack — 25-02-2026

• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations — New Scientist — 25-02-2026

• OpenClaw May Be a Security Nightmare for OpenAI’s Sam Altman — Bloomberg — 22-02-2026

• Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over GPT-4o’s Emotional ‘Soul’ — The Wall Street Journal — 09-02-2026

• The many masks that LLMs wear — Understanding AI — 09-02-2026

• The Week Anthropic Tanked the Market and Pulled Ahead of Its Rivals — The Wall Street Journal — 05-02-2026

• Claude Code is the Inflection Point — SemiAnalysis — 05-02-2026

• Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear — Nature — 02-02-2026

• Four Hundred Meters on Mars: The First AI-Planned Drive on Another Planet — Anthropic — 30-01-2026

• Interview: Demis Hassabis @ Sources Live, Davos — Sources — 26-01-2026

• The Adolescence of Technology — Dario Amodei — 26-01-2026

• America’s coming war over AI regulation — MIT Technology Review — 23-01-2026

• How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic — WIRED — 22-01-2026

• Anthropic’s Amodei on AI: Power and Risk — Bloomberg Live — 20-01-2026

• Claude Is Taking the AI World by Storm, and Even Non-Nerds Are Blown Away — The Wall Street Journal — 17-01-2026

• Yann Le Cun: 'Why I'm leaving Meta to launch my own AI start-up' — Le Monde — 16-01-2026

• There’s One Easy Solution to the A.I. Porn Problem — The New York Times — 12-01-2026

• The rise of Anthropic and why safety is leading the AI arms race — CNBC — 10-01-2026

• How Google Got Its Groove Back and Edged Ahead of OpenAI — The Wall Street Journal — 06-01-2026

• Google’s Josh Woodward says AI safety must move as fast as Gemini improves — CNBC — 20-12-2025

• Why AI companies are suddenly rebranding AGI — The Verge — 18-12-2025

• Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI — Financial Times — 16-12-2025

• Business leaders agree AI is the future, they just wish it worked right now — Reuters — 16-12-2025

• From Garlic to Avocado: The goofy AI model codenames you should know — Business Insider — 11-12-2025

• Architects of AI named Time's 'Person of the Year' — Reuters — 11-12-2025

• Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence — Essential AI — 05-12-2025

• Anthropic’s “Soul Overview” for Claude Has Leaked — Futurism — 03-12-2025

• Ilya Sutskever (SSI) – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research — Dwarkesh Podcast — 25-11-2025

• The Z.ai Playbook — ChinaTalk — 21-11-2025

• The troubling reality of DeepSeek's AI model — Lowy Institute (The Interpreter) — 18-11-2025

• Cohere Is Canada's Biggest AI Hope. Why Is It So American? — The Walrus — 17-11-2025

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