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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”  —  TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
More: OpenAI, CNBC, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, The Information, Forbes, PitchBook, SiliconANGLE, Wired, The Hill, Business Insider, Agence France-Presse, TBPN, Reuters, Tubefilter, New York Times, On my Om, Axios, Variety, Dow Jones Newswires, 9to5Mac, XDA Developers, ZeroHedge News, The Economic Times, Pulse 2.0, Bloomberg, Implicator.ai, TBPN on YouTube, Tech in Asia, The Wrap, The Hollywood Reporter, Inc.com, and Deadline
X: @johncoogan, @sama, @jordihays, @dseetharaman, @ajs, @zebulgar, @kevinakwok, @supbagholder, @hshaban, @pkafka, @davidu, @alexweprin, @miles_brundage, @austinc3301, @bdanweiss, @maxwelltani, @jbsdc, @gazorp5, @rpnickson, @pitdesi, @joannastern, @thezvi, @jordihays, @mjnblack, @alexrkonrad, @pkafka, @danshipper, @tbpn, @hadas_gold, @nicholas_shawa, @scobleizer, @willmanidis, @mikebutcher, @ericnewcomer, @mukund, @mikeisaac, @andrewcurran_, @jason, @eric_seufert, @absoluttig, @jaltma, @ericnewcomer, @ricburton, @dylanabruscato, @ericnewcomer, @levie, @mikeisaac, @taylorlorenz, @maxwelltani, @austin_rief, @mikeisaac, @buccocapital, @ti_morse, @mgsiegler, @aagave, @jessicalessin, @lindsmccallum, @eriktorenberg, @edzitron, @shakeelhashim, @neilcybart, @samfbiddle, @jessicalessin, @mikeisaac, @hadas_gold, @sarafischer, @dylanabruscato, @cjc, and @loudmouthjulia
LinkedIn: Simon Owens, Yossi J Levi, Jaspreet Singh, Dylan Abruscato, and Jordi Hays
Bluesky: @paris.nyc, @brbarrett, @joshsternberg.com, @alexshultz, @doubleohkevin, @neillewisjr, @parkerortolani.com, @harrymccracken.com, @caseynewton, @isolyth.dev, and @katie-drummond.  Threads: @karissabe
Forums: r/OpenAI and Slashdot
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George Hammond / Financial Times:
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent  —  ChatGPT-maker moves into broadcasting with deal for TBPN after it had pledged to abandon ‘side-quests’
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  —  Today, we are introducing Gemma 4 — our most intelligent open models to date.  Purpose-built for advanced reasoning …
More: VentureBeat, NVIDIA, Ars Technica, The Register, Android Developers Blog, Google AI for Developers, Run Gemma 4 locally …, Google Open Source Blog, VentureBeat, Mashable, The Decoder, The Verge, TestingCatalog, Neowin, Constellation Research, SiliconANGLE, The Deep View, MarkTechPost, Thurrott, 9to5Google, PCWorld, Engadget, Simon Willison's Weblog, Implicator.ai, ZDNET, The Next Web, Decrypt, The Economic Times, and Techstrong.ai
X: @erikvoorhees, @gregisenberg, @demishassabis, @hamandcheese, @mweinbach, @nvidiaaidev, @qualcomm, @clattner_llvm, @googlegemma, @googlegemma, @demishassabis, @docker, @mweinbach, @itspaulai, @androiddev, @kaggle, @simonw, @lmsysorg, @mayhem4markets, @dorialexander, @sriramk, @mweinbach, @googlegemma, @google, @triswarkentin, @nvidiarobotics, @rasbt, @dynamicwebpaige, @osanseviero, @jeffdean, @natolambert, @matvelloso, @googleaidevs, @clementdelangue, @minchoi, @arena, @kaggle, @arena, @clementdelangue, @arm, @atomic_chat_hq, @rseroter, @jacalulu, @osanseviero, @kimmonismus, @xenovacom, @kimmonismus, @mweinbach, @officiallogank, @jeffdean, @cyb3rops, @googleoss, @measure_plan, @artificialanlys, @sundarpichai, @mweinbach, @chanduthota, @ggerganov, @clmt, @googledeepmind, @googledevs, @ai, @artificialanlys, @thorwebdev, @kakatohesss, @_philschmid, @googledevs, @googlecloudtech, @teksedge, @googleai, @nvidiarobotics, @conorbronsdon, @jocarrasqueira, @preethilahoti, @scaling01, @o_lacombe, @clementdelangue, @i, @dynamicwebpaige, and @androidstudio
LinkedIn: Kari Ann Briski, Eric Fraser, Ed Brandman, Ravin Kumar, Gus Martins, and M Mohan.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/Android, r/ollama, r/Bard, and Slashdot
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 …
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
Alex Harring / CNBC:
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets  —  A federal commission on Wednesday announced lawsuits against three states over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets.
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.
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 …
Te-Ping Chen / Wall Street Journal:
LinkedIn job posting data: companies added 640K AI-related jobs from 2023 to 2025 in the US, including 225K “head of AI” jobs, up 49% from the prior four years  —  AI is raising big fears about employment losses, but it is also giving rise to new engineering and training jobs
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 …
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.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices  —  Amazon is adding a 3.5% “fuel and logistics-related surcharge” to fees it collects from third-party sellers who use its fulfillment services …
The Information:
Source: Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, which was developing a platform that enables AI to run biotech tasks such as planning drug research, for ~$400M  —  Anthropic has acquired AI biotech startup Coefficient Bio for roughly $400 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

Peter Walker / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors “abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”

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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
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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
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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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Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
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