The Voss Report — April 13, 2026
The day’s AI stories worth your attention, selected and annotated by Mira Voss.
Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts. — MIT Technology Review
The 2026 Stanford AI Index lands today with a number that deserves to be read slowly: AI data centers now draw 29.6 gigawatts globally, enough to power all of New York at peak demand, while GPT-4o alone may consume more water than 12 million people drink in a year — a resource ledger the industry's revenue projections were never designed to sit next to.
Import AI 453: Breaking AI agents; MirrorCode; and ten views on gradual disempowerment — Import AI (Jack Clark)
MirrorCode's demonstration that Claude Opus 4.6 can autonomously reimplement a 16,000-line bioinformatics toolkit — while Clark simultaneously catalogues ten frameworks for thinking about gradual disempowerment — captures something important: the researchers benchmarking AI capability and the researchers worried about what it implies are increasingly the same people.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings — The Verge
The detail worth sitting with in the Zuckerberg clone report is not that he wants an avatar for meetings — it's that Meta is training the system on his public statements to give feedback to employees, which is either a confession about how much signal lives in public statements, or about how much he values the feedback loop.
The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril — Wired
Major news outlets are cutting off the Wayback Machine's access to their archives, which means the organizations most responsible for the historical record are actively disassembling the infrastructure that makes that record permanent.
AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life — Wired
Framing AI agent social simulations as a way to "optimize the process of choosing new colleagues, friends, and romantic partners" is less a product announcement than a statement about what happens when relationship formation gets recast as a throughput problem.
The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem — Wired
The crosswalk hack that let someone impersonate Zuckerberg and Musk over pedestrian audio infrastructure is worth reading for what WIRED found in public records: most cities had no incident response plan for their own public systems, which is less a story about a prank than about what critical infrastructure security looks like at the municipal level.
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