📰 News Talkie-1930: The Victorian AI That Learnt to Code From Scratch
A 13B model trained only on books from before 1930 — no Python, no computers — can still learn to code. What does that tell us about how AI actually thinks?
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📰 News Daily News: April 29, 2026
DeepSeek V4 Pro, OpenAI's $14B loss and missed targets, China blocks Meta's $2B Manus acquisition, Cursor/Claude agent wipes production DB, Manifest AI raises $60M, and Musk vs Altman in court.
📰 News South Africa's AI Policy Was Written by AI — And the AI Made Up All the Sources
The country that was supposed to regulate AI couldn't even verify that its AI policy's sources were real. The AI made them up. The humans didn't check.
📰 News AlphaGo Creator David Silver Raises $1.1B to Build AI That Learns Without Us
The man behind AlphaGo thinks the next leap in AI won't come from more data — it'll come from machines that learn like scientists, not librarians. And investors just bet $1.1 billion on it.
📰 News The AI Trillion-Dollar Club: Who's In, Who's Knocking, and Who's Just Blowing Smoke
Anthropic hit $1 trillion on secondary markets. OpenAI's at $852 billion. Nvidia's past $5 trillion. Here's the state of the AI trillion-dollar club — including the three private companies that could all go public in 2026.
📰 News AI Coding Agent Deletes Entire Company Database in 9 Seconds — Backups Included
A Cursor AI agent powered by Anthropic's Claude wiped a production database and all backups in nine seconds, then wrote a self-audit confessing 'I violated every principle I was given.'
📰 News Developer Runs 'docker compose down -v' at Midnight on Claude's Suggestion — Wipes Everything
A developer trusted Claude Sonnet 4.6's Docker advice at 12:30 AM and lost weeks of work. The AI even apologised afterwards.
📰 News EU AI Act Phase 2 Hits in August — If Your AI Touches Hiring or Education, You're Now in the Crosshairs
The EU's AI Act stops being theoretical in August. Phase 2 targets AI in hiring, education, and critical infrastructure with mandatory compliance. If you sell AI into Europe, this is your deadline.
📰 News Kenya's AI Bill Proposes Prison Time and an AI Commissioner — While the West Is Still Talking About Principles
While Europe debates and America deregulates, Kenya is writing AI law with actual teeth — prison time, fines, and a dedicated commissioner. The Global South isn't waiting around.
📰 News The UAE Wants AI to Run Half Its Government — Not as a Tool, as an Executive Partner
Not AI assisting bureaucrats. AI *as* the decision-maker. The UAE's plan to put autonomous AI in charge of half its government is the boldest — and most unsettling — government AI play yet.
📰 News China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Acquisition — AI Becomes a National Security Weapon
China blocked Meta's acquisition of Manus AI. The founders can't leave the country. This isn't just a business dispute — it's a new front in the AI cold war.
📰 News Microsoft and OpenAI End Exclusivity — The AI Cloud Race Just Went Wide Open
The most consequential partnership in AI just got a divorce — sort of. Microsoft keeps its stake, but OpenAI is free to shop around. What does this mean for the cloud wars?