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AI Daily Brief — 15 April 2026
A heavyweight Wednesday. Stanford HAI publishes the 2026 AI Index Report — a wide-aperture annual baseline showing frontier models gaining 30 percentage points in a single year on Humanity’s Last Exam. Dwarkesh Patel publishes a long-form interview with Jensen Huang on TPU competition, NVIDIA’s supply-chain moat, and the China-export debate.
Top stories
- Stanford HAI — 2026 AI Index. The annual flagship report. Frontier models gain 30 pp on Humanity’s Last Exam over the past year. Anthropic’s top model leads the field by just 2.7%. U.S. consumer surplus from AI hits $172B annually, up from $112B a year earlier. Software-developer employment ages 22-25 down nearly 20% from 2024. via Stanford HAI
- Dwarkesh × Jensen Huang. A long-form conversation on TPU competition, why NVIDIA wants to sell chips to China, and the moat its supply chain enforces. via Dwarkesh
- HAI on AI in science. The Index’s research-and-development section spotlights AI’s growing role in scientific discovery — from materials to molecular biology. via AIwire
By the numbers
- 30 pp frontier gain on Humanity’s Last Exam (year-over-year)
- 2.7% lead of Anthropic’s top model as of March 2026
- $172B annual US consumer surplus from AI (up from $112B a year prior)
- -20% employment for software developers aged 22-25 vs 2024
Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from publicly reported announcements on 15 April 2026.