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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, Wired, Wall Street Journal, The Information, PitchBook, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, TBPN, The San Francisco Standard, Variety, Axios, The Hill, Tubefilter, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Dow Jones Newswires, XDA Developers, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, The Economic Times, Pulse 2.0, Bloomberg, Implicator.ai, TBPN on YouTube, Tech in Asia, Business Insider, On my Om, New York Times, Agence France-Presse, The Wrap, and The Hollywood Reporter
X: @sama, @jordihays, @johncoogan, @samfbiddle, @zebulgar, @kevinakwok, @supbagholder, @hshaban, @pkafka, @davidu, @alexweprin, @miles_brundage, @austinc3301, @bdanweiss, @maxwelltani, @jbsdc, @gazorp5, @rpnickson, @pitdesi, @joannastern, @thezvi, @jordihays, @mjnblack, @alexrkonrad, @ajs, @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, @dseetharaman, @mgsiegler, @aagave, @jessicalessin, @lindsmccallum, @eriktorenberg, @edzitron, @shakeelhashim, @neilcybart, @samfbiddle, @jessicalessin, @mikeisaac, @hadas_gold, @sarafischer, @dylanabruscato, @cjc, and @loudmouthjulia
LinkedIn: Yossi J Levi, Jaspreet Singh, Dylan Abruscato, and Simon Owens
Bluesky: @paris.nyc, @brbarrett, @joshsternberg.com, @alexshultz, @doubleohkevin, @neillewisjr, @parkerortolani.com, @harrymccracken.com, @caseynewton, @isolyth.dev, and @katie-drummond.  Threads: @karissabe
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
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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: NVIDIA, Ars Technica, Android Developers Blog, Google AI for Developers, Run Gemma 4 locally …, VentureBeat, The Decoder, Google Open Source Blog, The Register, Constellation Research, The Verge, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, The Deep View, Neowin, MarkTechPost, Thurrott, 9to5Google, PCWorld, Engadget, Simon Willison's Weblog, Implicator.ai, ZDNET, The Next Web, Decrypt, and The Economic Times
X: @demishassabis, @erikvoorhees, @mweinbach, @nvidiaaidev, @qualcomm, @clattner_llvm, @googlegemma, @googlegemma, @demishassabis, @docker, @mweinbach, @itspaulai, @hamandcheese, @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, @gregisenberg, @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: Eric Fraser, Ed Brandman, Ravin Kumar, Kari Ann Briski, Gus Martins, and M Mohan.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/artificial, r/Android, r/ollama, r/Bard, and Slashdot
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.
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
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Sources: Sarvam AI is close to raising $300M-$350M at a ~$1.5B valuation, which could close as soon as next week; Bessemer Venture Partners is expected to lead  —  India's homegrown artificial intelligence startup, Sarvam AI, is close to raising $300 million to $350 million as it seeks …
More: Tech in Asia
Bloomberg:
A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction  —  The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.
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.

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Wall Street Journal:
President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Dinner after loud sounds were heard in the hotel; a shooting suspect has been apprehended

Ted Johnson / Deadline:
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Sally Weale / The Guardian:
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Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
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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
Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
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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
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