1. China's early AI adopters are the first to be told: train your replacement The GitHub project is called Colleague Skill. Its pitch, per MIT Technology Review: a worker can distill a teammate's skills and personality, then replicate them as an AI agent.

2. 44% of songs uploaded to Deezer daily are AI, and readers have built their own detector Deezer disclosed on April 20 that 44% of songs uploaded to its platform each day are AI-generated, according to TechCrunch and Ars Technica.

3. Pentagon Called Anthropic's Mythos a Supply-Chain Risk. NSA Is Running It Anyway. The National Security Agency is deploying Anthropic's Mythos model, according to reports from Axios and TechCrunch published this weekend.

In Brief

• Google expands Gemini in Chrome to seven Asia-Pacific markets Google rolled out Gemini in Chrome to Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The browser-embedded assistant had previously been limited to a narrower geographic footprint.

• Fermi loses CEO and CFO as Texas AI nuclear campus stalls Fermi's chief executive and chief financial officer both departed the AI-focused nuclear power startup co-founded by former Energy Secretary Rick Perry. The company has struggled to advance its Texas campus built to supply power to AI data centers.

• NVIDIA ties Adobe and WPP agents into enterprise marketing stacks NVIDIA announced expanded collaborations placing Adobe's agentic AI and WPP's production pipelines on its compute stack for creative and customer experience work. The integration targets brands running personalized content operations at volume.

• Epic opens AI-character tool to Fortnite creators, bans romantic roleplay Epic Games gave Fortnite developers a "conversations" tool to build AI characters players can talk to, replacing authored dialogue trees. Epic's guidelines prohibit dating or romantic interactions with the generated characters.

• NVIDIA pushes AI manufacturing stack at Hannover Messe 2026 NVIDIA used Hannover Messe to showcase industrial AI deployments with partners targeting faster design cycles and skilled-labor shortages. The pitch frames AI adoption on factory floors as a pacing question rather than an open decision.

• Chinese humanoid robot wins half-marathon against human runners A humanoid robot finished a half-marathon ahead of human competitors and set a category record, the latest signal of China's pace in commercial humanoid development. The race result follows a string of Chinese bipedal platforms hitting physical endurance benchmarks.

• Zuckerberg and Dorsey pitch AI as a tool to clone CEO oversight Wired reported that Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are each building AI systems meant to extend their personal management presence across their companies. Both approaches frame AI as a mechanism for tighter executive control rather than employee augmentation.

• Simon Willison ships Claude token counter with cross-model comparisons Simon Willison released an updated Claude token counter tool that now compares token counts across multiple models side by side. The utility helps developers estimate context costs before routing prompts to different providers.

• Researchers crash neural networks by flipping a handful of sign bits A paper introduces Deep Neural Lesion, a data-free method that disables production models by flipping a small number of parameter bits. The attack works across image classification, object detection, segmentation, and large reasoning models without training data or optimization.

• Prego launches StoryCorps-branded dinner table recorder Pasta-sauce brand Prego partnered with nonprofit StoryCorps on a device that records family conversations around the dinner table for long-term archival. The product ships as a consumer tie-in rather than a subscription service.

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