# AI News Digest - 2026-04-14

1. Stanford's AI Index reported that the US and China were nearly tied on top-model performance, the US hosted 5,427 AI data centers, a single foundry (TSMC) fabricated almost every leading AI chip, benchmarks were increasingly unreliable, AI adoption had accelerated, and governments struggled to keep regulation and testing pace with technological progress.

2. The AI industry experienced compute shortages and disruption, with Anthropic reporting outages, OpenAI ending its Sora service, providers instituting rationing, and GPU prices rising by roughly 50 percent.

3. OpenAI's leaked internal memo outlined five enterprise priorities and said a new model codenamed "Spud" would make its products significantly better, while signaling a platform push for AI agents and alleging that Anthropic had overstated its revenue.

4. LPM 1.0 demonstrated a research breakthrough by generating up to 45 minutes of lip-synced, emotionally expressive video from a single photo in real time, while remaining at the research-project stage.

5. SoftBank convened Japan's steel giants, automakers, and banks to plan a domestic AI foundation intended to reduce reliance on American and Chinese models.

# References

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/13/1135675/want-to-understand-the-current-state-of-ai-check-out-these-charts/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/13/1135675/want-to-understand-the-current-state-of-ai-check-out-these-charts/)

[Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/13/1135675/want-to-understand-the-current-state-of-ai-check-out-these-charts/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/the-ai-industry-is-running-out-of-compute-with-outages-rationing-and-rising-gpu-prices/](https://the-decoder.com/the-ai-industry-is-running-out-of-compute-with-outages-rationing-and-rising-gpu-prices/)

[The AI industry is running out of compute, with outages, rationing, and rising GPU prices](https://the-decoder.com/the-ai-industry-is-running-out-of-compute-with-outages-rationing-and-rising-gpu-prices/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openais-leaked-memo-says-new-spud-model-will-make-all-its-products-significantly-better/](https://the-decoder.com/openais-leaked-memo-says-new-spud-model-will-make-all-its-products-significantly-better/)

[OpenAI's leaked memo says new "Spud" model will make all its products "significantly better"](https://the-decoder.com/openais-leaked-memo-says-new-spud-model-will-make-all-its-products-significantly-better/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/new-ai-model-generates-45-minute-lip-synced-video-from-one-photo-and-runs-in-real-time/](https://the-decoder.com/new-ai-model-generates-45-minute-lip-synced-video-from-one-photo-and-runs-in-real-time/)

[New AI model generates 45-minute lip-synced video from one photo and runs in real time](https://the-decoder.com/new-ai-model-generates-45-minute-lip-synced-video-from-one-photo-and-runs-in-real-time/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/steel-giants-automakers-and-banks-plan-to-build-japans-answer-to-us-and-chinese-ai-dominance/](https://the-decoder.com/steel-giants-automakers-and-banks-plan-to-build-japans-answer-to-us-and-chinese-ai-dominance/)

[Steel giants, automakers, and banks plan to build Japan's answer to US and Chinese AI dominance](https://the-decoder.com/steel-giants-automakers-and-banks-plan-to-build-japans-answer-to-us-and-chinese-ai-dominance/)

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