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It is weird that you can approach LLMs as reasonable approximations of humans and get good results, but it is even weirder that you can approach agents as reasonable approximations of organizations (higher ability work is expensive so delegation is important, hand-offs have cost)
https://x.com/emollick/status/2041165222438711320

Today, we are launching our collaboration with @nomic_ai to make AI agents more effectively and efficiently understand complex PDF documents. Nomic’s new nomic-layout-v1 model allows your AI agents to parse documents locally, so sensitive documents never leave your machine.
https://x.com/usemuna/status/2041879769332216009

we just shipped layout models that run entirely on your laptop with @usemuna no server. no API key. no cost per page. an agent can now parse a 500-page PDF the same way it reads a text file
https://x.com/andriy_mulyar/status/2041893915347812710

Anthropic Acquires Startup Coefficient Bio for About $400 Million — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-acquires-startup-coefficient-bio-400-million

Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports | TechCrunch

Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute

Anthropic loses appeals court bid to temporarily block DOD ruling
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/anthropic-pentagon-court-ruling-supply-chain-risk.html

I think it’s maybe 55% likely that Anthropic ARR is greater than $90bn as of the end of 2026.
https://x.com/RyanPGreenblatt/status/2041582230213161437

NEW: Anthropic is on track to surpass $19 billion in revenue run rate, up from $14 bil several weeks ago, a sign of how quickly the company has been growing in the lead up to its conflict w/ the Pentagon
https://x.com/shiringhaffary/status/2028977667744100622

OpenAI And Anthropic Count Revenue Differently, And Investors Are Looking Into It
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/03/25/openai-and-anthropic-count-revenue-differently-and-investors-are-looking-into-it/

OpenAI may be a household name, but Anthropic could soon be earning more revenue. Since each company hit $1B in annualized revenues, Anthropic has grown substantially faster (10× vs 3.4× per year) and could overtake OpenAI by mid-2026 if recent trends continue.
https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2024536468618956868

WSJ got OpenAI and Anthropic’s confidential financials. Both companies argue they turn a small profit today if you strip out training costs (lol). But, when you add them back, OpenAI doesn’t break even until the 2030s vs. Anthropic gets there sooner (again, all their own
https://x.com/ShanuMathew93/status/2041444857416126617

WSJ obtained confidential financials from both OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of their expected IPOs later this year. The core tension: revenue is exploding, but training costs are exploding faster. OpenAI projects $121 billion in compute spending by 2028, resulting in $85 billion
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2041203798723666375

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Unite to Combat Model Copying in China – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/openai-anthropic-google-unite-to-combat-model-copying-in-china

Google has the equivalent of roughly 5 million Nvidia H100 GPUs! Therefore, it’s no surprise that Anthropic’s needs are now benefiting Google. As I said yesterday, Google is exceptionally well-positioned: strong revenue streams, its own chips, and above all: distribution.
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2041464540446228484

An AI cow collar just created a billion-dollar company. Farmers draw boundaries on a phone app, and the collars guide cows using sound and vibration. It works by collecting over 6,000 data points per min, feeding ML models that track grazing patterns, predict disease, and
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2041898010637168644

Your inbox is your business. Gemini in @gmail helps you without holding onto your data or using your personal emails to train our foundational AI models. Gmail VP @blakebarnes explains how 👇
https://x.com/Google/status/2041546713001861185

OpenAI’s $122B “VC Round” Is Vendor Deals, Contingent Capital, and a Guaranteed Return It Arguably Can’t Afford | SaaStr

OpenAI’s $122B “VC Round” Is Vendor Deals, Contingent Capital, and a Guaranteed Return It Arguably Can’t Afford

Sam Altman wants to take OpenAI public as early as Q4 2026. His own CFO isn’t so sure that’s a good idea. According to reporting by The Information, Sarah Friar has privately told colleagues she doesn’t believe the company will be ready for an IPO this year, pointing to massive
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2041100365303808069

OpenAI proposes shifting the tax base from labor to capital. Reductions in payroll taxes and labor income could erode the tax base that funds social programs. Capital gains and corporate income taxes may need to increase, while taxes on automated labor and credits for retaining
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2041237246540705977

Introducing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship, a new program supporting independent research on AI safety and alignment–and the next generation of talent.
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2041202511647019251

OpenAI just put out a policy paper announcing their support for a 32-hour work week with no loss in pay and expanded Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Now they just need to stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars to defeat candidates who run on these policies!
https://x.com/jeremyslevin/status/2041182591546531924

We’re excited to launch the OpenAI Safety Fellowship – supporting rigorous, independent research on AI safety and alignment, including areas like evaluation, robustness, and scalable mitigations. Applications are open through May 4, 2026!
https://x.com/markchen90/status/2041250842255425767

‘Subpoenas are forthcoming’: Florida AG opens probe into OpenAI, ChatGPT – POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/09/florida-uthmeier-openai-chatgpt-probe-00865417

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I’ve been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private
https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041213917611856067

Elon Musk Asks for OpenAI’s Nonprofit to Get Any Damages From His Lawsuit – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/elon-musk-asks-for-openais-nonprofit-to-get-any-damages-from-his-lawsuit-76089f6f

Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age

Click to access Industrial%20Policy%20for%20the%20Intelligence%20Age.pdf

New interviews and closely guarded documents, some of which have never been publicly disclosed, shed light on the persistent doubts about the OpenAI C.E.O. Sam Altman. @AndrewMarantz and @RonanFarrow report.
https://x.com/NewYorker/status/2041111369655964012

OpenAI asks California AG to probe Musk’s ‘anti-competitive behavior’
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/openai-asks-california-ag-to-probe-musks-anti-competitive-behavior-.html

OpenAI Projects Steep Advertising Growth

OpenAI Projects Steep Advertising Growth, Targeting $100 Billion by 2030

You’ve probably heard a Mist voice already. We’re powering some of the leading brands’ voice agents. Today we’re launching Mist v3 at @rimelabs Same voices. New everything underneath. ~40ms TTFB. Pronunciation control that doesn’t guess on brand names. Throughput built for
https://x.com/lilyjclifford/status/2041545072265543736

There were likely no major work impacts of GenAI in any large firm throughout 2025. We did not have agentic tools, adoption takes time, and everyone was experimenting with process. That is starting to change. Studies that show no impact in 2025 don’t tell us much about 2027.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2041218593367478276

If building humanist AI with unlimited tokens sounds up your alley, we’re hiring at MAI. All the benefits of startup speed + agility w/the resources of one of the world’s leading tech companies. If you want to work with a small, brilliant, low-ego team – get in touch.
https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/2041621231561310263

Perplexity’s Shift to AI Agents Boosts Revenue 50%

Perplexity’s Shift to AI Agents Boosts Revenue 50% 

CEO Andy Jassy’s 2025 Letter to Shareholders
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-2025-letter-to-shareholders

Our run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, as demand for Claude continues to accelerate. This partnership gives us the compute to keep pace. Read more:
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2041275563466502560

> forecasters release AI 2027 last year > reaction: “”iT’s tOo bUllISH and unrealistic!111!!1″” > Anthropic: hold my beer > 15x revenue run-rate in a single year > 2 months and 4B ahead of the forecast > mfw it’s still valued at $380B
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2041559837541126638

While I think what Anthropic does is sad for the ecosystem, I wanna give Boris credit for doing what he can to soften the fallout. Today’s release will include some fixes for better cache use, to lower cost for API users.
https://x.com/steipete/status/2040298884787032103

MFW WHEN ANTHROPIC IS STILL VALUED AT $380B > overtook OpenAI revenue run-rate > fast-growing company in all of history > by far the strongest model > (they have had the model internally for months) they literally have the mandate
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2041594563354104313

When Will Anthropic Surpass NVIDIA? | Tomasz Tunguz
https://tomtunguz.com/anthropic-most-valuable-company/

Apple at 50: Former insiders on how the iPhone maker can win with AI
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/04/apple-50-anniversary-ai-iphone-siri.html

Apple Shows Its Cards, Plans To Move The Production Of Its Upcoming Baltra ASIC In-House
https://wccftech.com/apple-shows-its-cards-plans-to-move-the-production-of-its-upcoming-baltra-asic-in-house/

If Huawei hadn’t been banned from TSMC in 2019, @dylan522p thinks it would have already eclipsed Apple as TSMC’s biggest customer. And that it would have better AI chips than Nvidia. Before it was banned, Huawei was actually the first to ship a 7nm AI chip — two months before
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2040081903013822796

MLX creator @awnihannun sharing the story of MLX. Apple management called him right after the launch: “why didn’t you tell us this was going to be so big??” 😂
https://x.com/ronaldmannak/status/2042425851455902152

I’m open-sourcing an MLX port of the ESM-2 protein model family so more people can tinker with AI & biology on Apple silicon! (1/5)
https://x.com/josephjojoe/status/2041215366177636468

14 days. From deadline to signed contract. In most government programs, you’re lucky to get an automated confirmation email in two weeks. At SPRIND, that’s our average time to select the winners and get the funding flowing. We aren’t looking for the best grant writers. We are
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2040776719830016090

first vibecoded billion-dollar company?
https://x.com/nic_carter/status/2039687558775370065

AI Is Becoming a Company Operating System Layer – Future of Tech and Security: Strategy & Innovation with Raffy

AI Is Becoming a Company Operating System Layer

From idea to outcome: Welcoming Simtheory and Ortto to Canva
https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/simtheory-ortto-join-canva/

Inside the AI Industry’s Most Expensive Mistake
https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/inside-the-ai-industrys-most-expensive

Public money makes you slow. We’ve heard the critique: Government initiatives are bogged down by bureaucracy, wrong incentives, and a lack of urgency. Critics argue that without the “”sink or swim”” pressure of private capital, the entrepreneurial drive disappears. At
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2040414080687554573

You.com | AI Use Cases
https://you.com/resources/ai-use-cases

Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup, confirms it was the victim of a major cybersecurity breach | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2026/04/02/mercor-ai-startup-security-incident-10-billion/

Cisco secures AI infrastructure with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs – Cisco Blogs
https://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/cisco-secures-ai-infrastructure-with-nvidia-bluefield-dpus?dtid=pdixsp001642

Will the government own my IP? It’s the first question every serious founder asks when they see a public funding contract. Let’s be clear:
https://t.co/n1mVZ8KVqd is designed to build global powerhouses, and you can’t scale without owning your core technology. The “”@SPRIND
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2039689556677788109

Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-work-with-mercor-after-data-breach-puts-ai-industry-secrets-at-risk/

We spent weeks testing text vs. image retrieval for RAG. The winner? 𝗡𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. Our recent publication, IRPAPERS, compares 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 (OCR + vector, keyword, and hybrid search) and 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 (multimodal late
https://x.com/weaviate_io/status/2041897318367060054

wtf, can someone confirm if this is accurate? i have been waiting for a 1b user announcement from openai for a while but did growth completely stall?! this is precisely what happened to snap when facebook implemented stories in instagram.
https://x.com/signulll/status/2041594603325837627

NEW: OpenAI’s Fidji Simo announced exec changes to staff today: she is taking medical leave for several weeks, COO Brad Lightcap is transitioning to a new role, and CMO Kate Rouch is stepping down to focus on her cancer recovery. More here:
https://x.com/shiringhaffary/status/2040147248970121283

OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing — The Information
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing

OpenAI’s Fidji Simo takes medical leave, makes leadership changes
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/03/openai-fidji-simo-medical-leave-executive-changes.html

We’re updating our ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscriptions to better support the growing use of Codex. We’re introducing a new $100/month Pro tier. This new tier offers 5x more Codex usage than Plus and is best for longer, high-effort Codex sessions. In ChatGPT, this new Pro tier
https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2042295688323875316?s=20

You can now use FAST mode if using OpenAI provider on GPT-5.4 with /fast fast command! `hermes update` to start using!
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2042468113699291636

Go from project setup to deployment with the @Vercel plugin in the Codex app.
https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2040443885374304639

Today we’re announcing the Billion Dollar Build. An 8-week competition where teams will use Perplexity Computer to build a company with a path to $1B. Finalists have the opportunity to secure up to $1M in investment from the Perplexity Fund and up to $1M in Computer credits.
https://x.com/perplexity_ai/status/2041929222135173466

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