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April 2, 2026, 1:45 PM
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John Coogan / @johncoogan:
OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays  —  TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI! The show is staying the same and we'll continue to go live at 11am pacific every weekday. This is a full circle moment for me as I've worked with @sama for well over a decade. He funded my first company in 2013. Then helped us fix a serious
More: Wall Street Journal, Benzinga, The Verge, and OpenAI
X: @jordihays.  LinkedIn: Jordi Hays.  Bluesky: @doubleohkevin
The Keyword:
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license  —  C  —  O  —  Group Product Manager, Google DeepMind  —  Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.
David Pierce / The Verge:
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta  —  It combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into something that feels entirely new. … Surf is a slightly hard app to explain.
More: Surf and Engadget
Bluesky: @strngwys and @tcarmody
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless “spiritual successor” to WordPress, available on GitHub  —  The cost of building software has drastically decreased.  We recently rebuilt Next.js in one week using AI coding agents.
Hayden Field / The Verge:
An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal “unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence”, and more  —  Its new transcription model is a step towards those goals, says Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman.
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
Microsoft launches in-house AI models MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, built by its superintelligence team, as it pursues “AI self-sufficiency”  —  Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state …
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has “drastically enhanced” agentic coding  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has released its third proprietary AI model in as many days, reinforcing the company's intent …
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
Tim Cook discusses 50 years of Apple and it still being Steve Jobs' company, the “very accessible” Trump administration, his “consistent” values, and more  —  Apple's iconic CEO speaks exclusively with Esquire about fifty years of Apple history—and the future the company is continuing to create.
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users that actively post, share, or comment falls from 61% in 2024 to 49%, as users say they are being more selective  —  Ofcom research shows people also concerned old posts could affect personal or professional life
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more  —  Coinbase Global Inc., the largest US cryptocurrency exchange, said it has won conditional approval from banking regulators …
Erin Griffith / New York Times:
How AI helped Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs with just two employees, hit $401M in 2025 sales; it's tracking for $1.8B in 2026 sales  —  Matthew Gallagher took just two months, $20,000 and more than a dozen artificial intelligence tools to get his start-up off the ground.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support  —  Google on Thursday added new features to its video editor app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support …
The Economic Times:
Sources: Oracle has cut ~10,000 jobs in India, or ~20% of its Indian workforce, as part of a restructuring that reportedly affects 30,000 employees globally  —  Oracle has cut around 10,000 jobs in India, sources told ET.  This is part of a global restructuring affecting 30,000 employees.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an “agent-first” coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents  —  As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: podcaster Alex Cooper, host of Call Her Daddy, cut ties with UTA and plans to move to CAA, after her company Unwell raised money at a $500M valuation

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner in the defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the broadcaster

Todd Spangler / Variety:
CBS News Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman is accused of harassment in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed against ABC by one of his former coworkers at ABC News

More News

Sally Weale / The Guardian:
UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England have observed their pupils' critical thinking skills decline due to AI usage
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Crypto asset manager CoinShares began trading on the Nasdaq on April 1, marking its entry into US public markets after its $1.2B SPAC merger with Vine Hill

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a prospect on Pathways, a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio, which would violate the software's license
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google increases the storage of its $19.99-per-month Google AI Pro subscription plan from 2TB to 5TB at no additional cost; the 10TB tier costs $49.99 per month
Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon is in talks to acquire Globalstar to bolster its low Earth orbit satellite business; Apple's 20% stake in Globalstar is one complicating factor
Helene Braun / CoinDesk:
Solana-based DeFi platform Drift warns users about an “active attack” on its protocol; Arkham data: $250M+ moved from Drift to a wallet, which now holds <$600K
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Raspberry Pi raises prices by between $11.25 and $150, citing higher memory costs after December 2025 and February 2026 hikes, and unveils a 3GB Pi 4 for $83.75
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