# 📅 ThursdAI - Apr 30 - DeepSeek V4 (1.6T MoE), Cursor SDK Wins WolfBench, Mayo's REDMOD Saves Lives, Stripe Gives Agents a Wallet & more

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Podcast: [ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thursdai-the-top-ai-news-from-the-past-week-6519604)
Published: 2026-05-01T00:34:57+00:00
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Hey everyone, Alex here 👋 Tomorrow is May. May! I genuinely cannot believe we’re four months into 2026 already, and the AI news cycle is showing zero signs of slowing down. This week’s show was a wild one! We opened with what is genuinely one of the most important AI stories I’ve ever covered (Mayo Clinic AI detecting pancreatic cancer THREE YEARS before human radiologists), we covered the return of the Chinese whale with DeepSeek V4 , OpenAI got caught in their own system prompt begging GPT-5.5 to please stop talking about goblins, and I literally gave my coding agent a credit card and asked it to buy my fiancée a wedding gift with the new Strip Link skill and CLI! Oh yeah, I’m getting married next Tuesday! 💍 So next week’s show will be a little different. I’ll be back the week after to catch you up on whatever drops in my absence (almost certainly something major, knowing this industry). Lots to get through, so let’s dive in. (also, in the end I have a full month recap of every major launch, don’t miss) ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Mayo Clinic’s REDMOD: AI Detects Pancreatic Cancer 3 Years Early 🔥 ( X , Blog, Announcement ) I know we usually cover Models, Parameter sizes, MoEs and big copmanies. But this is important. This is the use case that justifies the entire AI revolution, the GPU burns, the buildouts. I want humans to WIN, and Cancer to be fixed! Mayo Clinic just published a study in Gut (BMJ) validating an AI model called REDMOD that detects pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis . The numbers are jaw-dropping: They show 73% sensitivity for catching prediagnostic cancers, compared…

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