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Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed "to sell more Cloudflare services" and lacks the cross-platform democratization of WordPress (Matt Mullenweg)

Sources: Chinese companies move to cement their role in humanoid robot supply chains as Tesla and others turn to China for components the US sees as strategic (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Arcee AI releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter MoE AI model under an Apache 2.0 license, allowing full customization and commercial use (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior "in ways that matter," such as driving it to act unethically (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)

Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others (Vaibhavi Khanwalkar/The Economic Times)

Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

Alcatraz, which develops AI-powered facial-recognition security systems for building access, raised a $50M Series B, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)

Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)

A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction (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 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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 (The Information)

Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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 (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: SpaceX is floating a $2T+ valuation to prospective investors in its IPO; SpaceX's acquisition of xAI reportedly valued the combined company at $1.25T (Bloomberg)

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 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the "exclusive" authority to regulate such markets (Alex Harring/CNBC)

Mental health startup Kintsugi is shutting down and open-sourcing its AI tech to detect depression and anxiety, after failing to secure FDA clearance (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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" (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays (John Coogan/@johncoogan)

Cursor launches Cursor 3, an "agent-first" coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage multiple AI agents (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after over a year in beta (David Pierce/The Verge)

Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, including directing and customizing avatars through text prompts and Veo 3.1 support (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Google launches Gemma 4, its "most intelligent" open model family, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows, under an Apache 2.0 license (The Keyword)

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 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is "not able to build models in the very largest scale yet" but its "computation ramp is coming to enable us to do" it in 2026 (Financial Times)

An interview with Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's AI reorg, how revising its OpenAI deal "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence", and more (Hayden Field/The Verge)

Challenger: US tech sector job cuts rose 24%+ YoY to 18,720 in March, taking Q1's tech total to 52,000+; AI accounted for 25% of layoffs across all industries (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)

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" (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

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 (Erin Griffith/New York Times)

OpenClaw launches an official China mirror of its ClawHub skills marketplace, with ByteDance providing the cloud servers to host the Chinese-language service (Juro Osawa/The Information)

Sources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B+; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg)

UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England have observed their pupils' critical thinking skills decline due to AI usage (Sally Weale/The Guardian)

Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)

Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless "spiritual successor" to WordPress, available on GitHub (Cloudflare)

Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-Plus, its third proprietary, closed-source AI model it launched within three days, saying it has "drastically enhanced" agentic coding (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, who paused some data center expansions in 2025, a decision some say led to its current supply crunch and growth bottleneck (Bloomberg)

IDC: Chinese GPU and AI chipmakers captured nearly 41% of China's AI server market in 2025, significantly eroding Nvidia's share to 55%, or ~2.2M cards shipped (Reuters)

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 (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

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 (The Economic Times)

Sources: AI startup Poolside held talks with Google and others to revive a Texas data center project after a CoreWeave deal and a $2B Nvidia-led round collapsed (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

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 (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Treeline, which is building an AI and software-first alternative to legacy corporate IT systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

Tim Cook reflects on 50 years of Apple, Steve Jobs' legacy, reaffirming the company's values, working with a "very accessible" Trump administration, and more (Ryan D'Agostino/Esquire)

Variance, which develops AI agents for compliance and fraud investigations, raised a $21.5M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and joined by YC and others (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

A whistleblower alleges Delve pitched a modified copy of open-source no-code tool SimStudio as its own, a practice that could violate the software's license (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)

Google increases the storage of its $19.99 per month AI Pro subscription plan to 5TB, up from 2TB, at no additional cost; 10TB costs $49.99 per month (Abner Li/9to5Google)