Why OpenAI Killed Sora, California's AI Rules, Europe's AI Boom
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OpenAI axes Sora, CA mandates AI safety, Nebius plans mega-factory, OpenAI hits $1T value, Anthropic leaks Claude Code, and Slack adds 30 new AI agents.
AI BRIEFING · 2026-04-02
AI Briefing — April 2, 2026
The 10 most important AI stories of April 2, 2026, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.
Microsoft Aims to Create Large Cutting-Edge AI Models By 2027
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Microsoft Corp. aims to develop large, cutting-edge artificial intelligence models by next year, part of a push to build in-house alternatives to the most powerful AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic.
DOJ to Appeal Court Order Halting Trumps Ban on Anthropic AI
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The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge’s order blocking its ban on government use of Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence technology.
OpenAI Buys Tech Talk Show TBPN in Rare Move Into Media
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OpenAI has acquired the online technology talk show TBPN, an unusual purchase for the artificial intelligence model developer aimed at driving the conversation around AI.
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)
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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.
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-LichtThe Deep View)
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Nat Rubio-Licht /The Deep View: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— Can we teach machines to feel? Short answer: We don't know. But we can teach them to sound like they do.
India AI Startup Sarvam Raises Funds at 1.5 Billion Valuation
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India's homegrown artificial intelligence startup, Sarvam AI, is close to raising $300 million to $350 million as it seeks to build a domestic player that can compete with leaders from the US and China.
OpenAI Cap Table Leak Reveals Microsoft's 18x Return, SoftBank's 50B Gain, And A CEO Who Owns Nothing
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A reconstructed cap table circulating on social media puts numbers to the most closely watched private equity story in tech history.
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 MochizukiBloomberg)
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Takashi Mochizuki /Bloomberg:Microsoft partners with SoftBank and Sakura Internet to build AI data infrastructure in Japan, investing $10B over four years and training 1M AI engineers— Microsoft Corp. announced a four-year, $10 billion investment package in Japan, part of the US company's Asia-wide push to expand …
SpaceXs Record Listing Could Kick Off a Year of Massive AI IPOs
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OpenAI and Anthropic are also considering a move to the public markets
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