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Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith in Thailand after the company announced a new AI and cloud investment.

mAIn Street #204: Gemini Now Builds Interactive 3D Models In-App; Big Tech Backs Nuclear Power to Address Infrastructure Woes; Microsoft Makes $1B Bet on Thailand

mAIn Street - Friday, April 10, 2026 Poke turns AI agents into text messages, Google keeps pushing Search into transactions, and the fights over AI energy, health, and safety keep escalating. Friday, April 10, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to a source you can actually open. Today's throughline AI is getting more convenient for ordinary users at the same...

10 days ago • 7 min read

mAIn Street #209: Claude Opus 4.7 Has Arrived; Canva's AI Assistant Can Now Call Multiple Tools to Work on Your Designs for You

Board-level cyber risk, platform regulation, and practical design and translation tools keep pushing AI deeper into everyday work. Friday, April 17, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline In what is probably the biggest news today, Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7. According to the company's blog post, you can hand...

3 days ago • 8 min read

A smartphone displaying an AI chatbot app

mAIn Street #208: Gallup Says Millions in US Are Using AI to Supplement Doctor Visits; Your AI Chats May Be Used Against You in Court; Snap to Cut 1K Jobs in AI Double-Down

Adobe’s creative agent lands, AI health advice gets real, and AI chats are suddenly a legal risk. Thursday, April 16, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline Today’s AI news isn’t abstract — it’s hitting real workflows. Gallup says a quarter of Americans are already using AI instead of calling their doctor. Adobe is...

4 days ago • 7 min read

Illustration of a diploma with a robot seal for the Khan TED Institute story

mAIn Street #207: Apple Aims for 2027 Launch on Smartglasses; Khan/ETS/TED Are Building $10K College for the AI Era; Google to Fund AI Training for 40K Manufacturing Workers

AI is getting more practical and more complicated: worker training, public-sector use cases, customer-service shifts, and new signs that bad rollout can make work worse before it makes it better. Wednesday, April 15, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline TODAY: Word for the Day: "workslop," or the time-consuming process...

5 days ago • 8 min read

Andon Market storefront and branding from the AI-run retail experiment

mAIn Street #206: Only 20% of AI Users Have Figured Out How to Get ROI; Smaller Communities Are Resisting the Data Center Craze; AI That Predicts Heart Failure 5 Years Before It Develops

AI has moved further into the real world: workers are using it, scams are scaling with it, companies are splitting into winners and laggards, and local communities are pushing back on the infrastructure behind it. Tuesday, April 14, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline Half of the workforce uses AI now, but only 20% of...

6 days ago • 7 min read

A St. Louis resident checks local air-quality data in a Reuters photo tied to the clean-air and AI power-demand story.

mAIn Street #205: Workers Who Bypass AI Could Be Losing Equivalent of 51 Productivity Days a Year; Half of Employed AI Users Now Use It for Work As Much As for Personal Reasons

AI moved deeper into work, schools, health care, and public systems this weekend while questions about accountability, security, and infrastructure costs got harder to ignore. Monday, April 13, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline The weekend’s strongest AI stories showed AI becoming operating infrastructure across...

7 days ago • 8 min read

Employees walking through an office, from Kyndryl's Digital Twin for the Workplace announcement

mAIn Street #203: Meta Muse Spark Rolls Out Across Chat, Socials, and Smartglasses; Canva Is Adding Custom Agents; Survey: 60% of Companies Planning Layoffs for Employees Who Refuse AI

mAIn Street — Thursday, April 9, 2026 Meta’s new AI model, Canva’s agent push, and 26 useful stories for people with real work to do. Thursday, April 9, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline What could Tubi possibly want with a native ChatGPT app? Canva adds agents. Google is bringing Notebooks to Gemini. And the FBI...

11 days ago • 7 min read

Grab helmet illustrating the company’s AI-led product push.

mAIn Street #202: AI Will Impact More Than Half of Jobs in the Next Three Years; Job Loss Fears Continue to Hurt Employee Engagement; More Prompts and Tools

Agentic marketing arrives, Grab leans on AI under cost pressure, and workplaces keep adapting in real time. Wednesday, April 8, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline AI is moving deeper into the machinery of real work—marketing systems, knowledge bases, customer support, healthcare documentation, cybersecurity, and...

12 days ago • 6 min read

Uber branding on a taxi, illustrating Uber's AI chip partnership with Amazon Web Services.

mAIn Street #201: Uber and Amazon Join Forces on AI Efforts; AI Startups Are Courting Law Students; Public Trust for AI in Healthcare Is Slipping

Uber leans on Amazon chips, AI startups court future lawyers, and schools move faster on AI literacy. Tuesday, April 7, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline AI is pushing past software demos and deeper into the institutions that shape real life—schools, legal careers, healthcare trust, customer systems, and the chips...

13 days ago • 6 min read

Aerial photo of a large data center campus in Virginia.

mAIn Street #200: OpenAI is pushing for industrial AI policy; Amazon, Microsoft, Google Investors Are Holding Companies' Feet to Fire on How to Pay for Water and Power Demands of AI

OpenAI goes policy-first, data centers hit resource limits, and AI pushes deeper into HR and healthcare. Monday, April 6, 2026 mAIn STREET AI news for people who actually have jobs to do. Same-day stories with human stakes, practical tools, and business consequences. Every story below links to the original source. Today's throughline ISSUE 200! Thank you all for hanging with me this long and helping me grow. Today, AI is no longer the side project. The April 6 story is that institutions now...

14 days ago • 6 min read