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How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/technology/ai-billion-dollar-company-medvi.html

Oracle cutting thousands in latest layoff round as AI spending booms
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html

3/30/26 – The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Americans’ AI Use Increases While Views On It Sour, Quinnipiac University Poll On AI Finds; 7 In 10 Think AI Will Cut Jobs With Gen Z The Most Pessimistic | Quinnipiac University Poll
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3955

I would expect that a lot of things that were old hat to experts, but completely inaccessible to most people, will go viral in the coming months. Sure, anyone could have done those things before, but it required a lot of deep knowledge. Now the AI can make it happen by asking.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2038494612583543254

Perplexity Computer can now help prepare your federal tax return. Select “Navigate my taxes” on Computer to give it a shot.
https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2039740898830073889

Read more about Computer for Taxes:
https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2039750344373125547

GOOGLE IS CLOSE TO STRIKING A DEAL TO FUND ANTHROPIC’S DATA CENTER, ACCORDING TO FT.
https://x.com/FirstSquawk/status/2037586926375743904

Microsoft has released MAI-Transcribe-1: a speech transcription model achieving 3.0% on AA-WER (#4), and is fast at 69x real-time The model was developed by Microsoft AI (MAI)’s Superintelligence team and supports 25 languages including English, French, Arabic, Japanese, and
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2039862705096659050

State of the Art Speech Recognition with MAI-Transcribe-1 | Microsoft AI
https://microsoft.ai/news/state-of-the-art-speech-recognition-with-mai-transcribe-1/?form=M301FW&OCID=CGE_osocial_Copilot_Free_868j3yepz

Today we’re announcing 3 new world class MAI models, available in Foundry | Microsoft AI
https://microsoft.ai/news/today-were-announcing-3-new-world-class-mai-models-available-in-foundry/

For the next couple years at least, the entire AI industry is going to be defined by this fact: demand is going to wildly outstrip supply, and so what matters is which companies / products have margin to pay for tokens. Those products will then rapidly improve because latency drives retention, and retention creates data to spin flywheels that improve the product and drive more adoption.
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2037964810575290593

LlamaParse from @llama_index is an document parsing system that turns messy documents into structured, usable data. It acts like an agentic OCR + document understanding layer →
https://t.co/97PSNgjlqB LlamaParse can read PDFs, tables, images, and scanned or even handwritten
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2037635280774304125

“OpenAI was the fastest technology platform to reach 10 million users, the fastest to 100 million users, and soon the fastest to 1 billion weekly active users. Within a year of launching ChatGPT, we reached $1B in revenue. By the end of 2024 we were generating $1B per quarter.
https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2039114329967013980

OpenAI acquires TBPN | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/openai-acquires-tbpn/

OpenAI raises $122 billion to accelerate the next phase of AI | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/

OpenAI raises $122B at a valuation of $852B
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2039081471843930366

OpenAI’s revenue trajectory is one of the more absurd things in business history. $1B annual -> within a year of ChatGPT’s launch. $1B per quarter -> by end of 2024. $2B per month -> now. Growing 4x faster than Alphabet and Meta did at comparable stages. 900M weekly active
https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2039103606327001435

Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation. The fastest way to expand AI’s benefits is to put useful intelligence in people’s hands early and let access compound globally. This funding gives us resources to
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2039085161971896807

Exclusive | The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-sudden-fall-of-openais-most-hyped-product-since-chatgpt-64c730c9

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The State of Consumer AI. Part 3: Time is Money
https://apoorv03.com/p/the-state-of-consumer-ai-part-3-time

1/ We’ve made the difficult decision to wind down
https://t.co/QvTU8jH3l0. The website will be up for another 15 days during which time users can download their chat data. New users won’t be able to sign up and existing users won’t be able to create new conversations after today.
https://x.com/pankaj/status/2039010092255969712

A billion euros. PR stunt? If you want to build a Frontier AI Lab that actually shifts the global trajectory, you have to talk about serious capital. We’ve seen it with the most recent labs founded by pioneers like Yann LeCun… a billion is what they raise to stay in the
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2039327420109509050

AI Applications and Vertical Integration
https://www.tanayj.com/p/ai-applications-and-vertical-integration

AI Feels Powerful. So Why Is the ROI Still Missing?
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2038244316468920358

AI’s capability improvements haven’t come from it getting less affordable — LessWrong
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/E6ELHguZFNF3Czp55/ai-s-capability-improvements-haven-t-come-from-it-getting

Big news for @conductor_build! We’ve raised a $22m Series A from Spark and Matrix. We raised this round from @ilyasu at Matrix, who also led our seed round and is joining our board, @nabeel at Spark, @ycombinator, and founders of Notion and Linear. We’re grateful to be working
https://x.com/charlieholtz/status/2039027121901957349

Don’t call it a moat – by Yoni Rechtman – 99% Derisible
https://99d.substack.com/p/dont-call-it-a-moat

Hark’s new office ready in 3 months includes fabrication and hardware labs
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2037918431685783855

hows that prediction looking, gartner
https://x.com/swyx/status/2028944956463956047

I think that if companies are not failing at all with their AI efforts it is a sign that they are not being ambitious enough. This is a fundamentally new technology that we do not know how to use well. Achieving breakthroughs will require experimentation, which require failure.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2036997633730896357

It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations | TechCrunch

It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations

Munich, Paris? Done! Zurich, Warsaw, Amsterdam next! Ten teams. 24 months. €125 million in non-dilutive funding:
https://t.co/n1mVZ8KnAF is Europe’s most ambitious initiative to build the next generation of AI. From those ten, three teams will go on to build AI labs backed
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2038526989380792521

The average American worker using AI reports time savings of 6%, or 2.5 hours in a work week. Those are similar to the UK & Netherlands, and slightly more than other EU countries. There some early, non-causal, signs that this is translating into real gains in productivity growth
https://x.com/emollick/status/2038654608642294206

The background noise in open offices, in multiple experiments, decreases the ability to do analytical work, increase bugs in software, and decrease the ability to find bugs. Open floor plans are just a bad idea for any solo work.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2037250466883477533

The last big one, now you can setup provider credential pools. Have a corporate and a personal account with a provider? Now you can auto-cycle keys and oauths for any provider in addition to the already existing fallback provider/model that you have set!
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2040152744829567025

Today, we are emerging from stealth and launching PrismML, an AI lab with Caltech origins that is centered on building the most concentrated form of intelligence. At PrismML, we believe that the next major leaps in AI will be driven by order-of-magnitude improvements in
https://x.com/PrismML/status/2039049400190939426

Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to fund AI data center
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/30/mistral-ai-paris-data-center-cluster-debt-financing.html

After the release of Parse v2, Extract is also getting an upgrade — 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝘃𝟮! 🎉 We’ve been reworking the experience from the ground up to make document extraction more powerful and easier to use than ever. Here’s what’s new: ✦
https://x.com/llama_index/status/2039734761334374791

Stop Telling Kids AI Will Steal Their Future
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2038756899110179127

The world of work is changing. Let’s change it for the better. Ryan Roslansky nails it in his new book: “”The most important truth about this moment is that the outcome isn’t written yet.””
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2039035184176414800

Hark is building next generation AI models and AI devices @hark_labs
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2039151008077774947

Insider the Project Training ChatGPT on Farming, Ranching, and Nursing – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-training-niche-occupations-specialized-llm-handshake-data-labeling-2026-4

Things I learned at OpenAI – by Karina Nguyen – sémaphore
https://semaphore.substack.com/p/things-i-learned-at-openai

We won’t beat OpenAI by copying them. If you try to catch up to the current AI S-curve with European budgets and constraints, you lose by design. The real challenge isn’t just competing with the OpenAI of today… it’s out-thinking the OpenAI of tomorrow. We are looking for
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2038964780917260477

Breaking: OpenAI is canning Sora (mobile app, API and video capabilities in ChatGPT). It’s finished training its latest model, codenamed Spud, as CEO Sam Altman shifts his reports. w/ @amir
https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/2036534198245134380

OpenAI Exposure Set for Ark ETFs as Investor Demand for Pre-IPO Stakes Grows – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-31/ark-etfs-to-add-openai-stake-as-retail-investors-chase-tech-boom

新しいBusiness Intelligenceへ:Ultra Deep Researchアシスタント「Sakana Marlin」βテスト開始
https://sakana.ai/marlin-beta/

Last XAI Cofounder, Ross Nordeen, Leaves As Musk Preps for SpaceX IPO – Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/xai-cofounder-ross-nordeen-leaves-musk-preps-spacex-ipo-2026-3

Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI | TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI

Today we’re also introducing the Runway Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to backing the next generation of companies building across AI, media and world simulation. For the past several years, we’ve been investing quietly with this fund, backing a range of companies,
https://x.com/runwayml/status/2038984561132990836

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