Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 3rd, 2026. A guy in LA launched a telehealth startup from his house with $20,000, a stack of AI tools, and one full-time hire — his brother — and is now on pace for $1.8 billion in annual sales, becoming one of the first real examples of Sam Altman’s prediction that AI would make the solo billion-dollar company possible. OpenAI made its first media acquisition, buying TBPN — the daily live tech talk show beloved by Silicon Valley CEOs — for reportedly hundreds of millions, with the goal of owning a direct line to the tech world’s most influential voices. Plus, Google released Gemma 4, its most permissive open-source model family yet under an Apache 2.0 license, and a community workflow from a guy in Barcelona who has Claude Cowork automatically brief him every morning at 8am by pulling from HubSpot, Slack, Gmail, and his calendar.

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of April 2nd, 2026. Jack Dorsey published a post arguing that AI can now replace the entire management layer of a company — framing Block's recent 40% workforce cut as a deliberate bet that smaller, flatter teams powered by AI will outrun every legacy org chart. SpaceX filed confidentially for what would be the largest IPO in history, targeting a valuation above $1.75 trillion and a raise of up to $75 billion — beating OpenAI and Anthropic to public markets with xAI folded in. Plus, a Business Insider investigation revealed that OpenAI is quietly paying thousands of freelancers $50 an hour to simulate their own professional workflows — essentially teaching ChatGPT how to do their jobs — and a community workflow from a guy in France who built a Taoist AI bot that jumps into heated friend group chats to bring perspective and calm things down.

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 1st, 2026. OpenAI closed the largest single fundraise in venture history — $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation — with Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank anchoring the round, and the company announcing plans to merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its agent tools into one unified superapp. Anthropic had its second major leak in a week, with Claude Code’s full source code accidentally published to a public registry — exposing 500,000 lines of code, unreleased features, and an internal AI terminal pet named BUDDY that nobody saw coming. Plus, a new Quinnipiac poll shows AI usage jumped 14% but job anxiety, public trust, and optimism are all moving in the opposite direction — and a community workflow from a 58-year-old self-described technophobe who used Claude to launch an entire skincare business from scratch after being made redundant.

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of March 31st, 2026. A WSJ investigation revealed that Sora was burning roughly a million dollars a day before it was shut down — and Disney learned the product was dead less than an hour before the public announcement, effectively killing what was shaping up to be a billion-dollar partnership. Microsoft launched two new Copilot research features that pit Claude and ChatGPT against each other, with one model drafting research and the other tearing it apart for weaknesses — making the case that multi-model AI is becoming the new standard. Plus, Stanford published a study showing that most major AI chatbots consistently take users’ side even when they’re clearly wrong, making people more self-righteous in the process, and a community workflow from a PhD student using three different AI tools as a coordinated team to write his dissertation.

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of March 30th, 2026. Anthropic accidentally leaked details of its next flagship model called Claude Mythos through a CMS error — with the draft blog describing it as a new tier above Opus with cyber capabilities the company calls “far ahead of anything else available,” drawing comparisons to OpenAI’s own mysteriously timed pre-launch leaks. The WSJ published a deep dive into the decade-long personal feud between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei — tracing it back to a 2016 San Francisco group house, with leaked Slack messages, accusations of plotting, and comparisons to historical villains all painting a rivalry that’s about a lot more than just building better AI. Plus, Anthropic won a federal injunction blocking the Trump administration’s supply-chain-risk designation, with the judge calling it “classic illegal First Amendment retaliation,” and a community workflow from a son who used Claude to transcribe his late father’s handwritten letters and turn them into a family archive website.

Today we’re going deep on what it actually looks like to run a business with AI agents doing the work. Alibaba.com President Kuo Zhang breaks down how companies need to shift from thinking of AI as a helper to treating it as a full operator — with checkpoints, guardrails, and humans stepping in only for the decisions that matter most. He walks through a real workflow where an agent team can launch an entire e-commerce business, handle supplier negotiations, manage logistics, and prep tax filings without a single human touching the process until final approval. He also makes a bold prediction — that the first one-person billion-dollar company is just months away — and argues that the most valuable skill in the agent era isn’t coding or prompting, it’s knowing what good looks like well enough to catch when AI gets it wrong.

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of March 27th, 2026. Meta open-sourced TRIBE v2, an AI model trained on over 1,000 hours of brain scan data from 700+ people that can simulate neural activity across vision, hearing, and language — with its synthetic predictions actually outperforming real fMRI recordings, potentially doing for brain research what AlphaFold did for proteins. Apple is planning to open Siri up to rival AI assistants starting with iOS 27, ending ChatGPT's exclusive integration and letting users route queries to whichever model they prefer — while Google's Gemini handles the underlying rebuild. Plus, Wikipedia's volunteer editors voted 40-2 to ban AI from writing articles on the English-language site, pushing back hard as AI-generated text reportedly surpassed human output for the first time in 2025, and a community workflow from a musician who used Claude to simplify piano scores so he could stop turning pages mid-performance.

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of March 26th, 2026. The ARC Prize Foundation dropped ARC-AGI-3, a new reasoning benchmark where humans score 100% on the first try but every frontier AI model scores below 1% — with Google’s Gemini Pro leading the pack at just 0.37%. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced a plan to label and verify bots across the platform, letting communities self-police AI-generated content without mass ID checks, as automated traffic is on pace to surpass human traffic by 2027. Plus, Google Research unveiled TurboQuant, an algorithm that compresses AI model memory over 6x with zero accuracy loss and up to 8x speed gains — rattling memory stocks in the process — and a community workflow from a new mom on maternity leave who built a custom baby tracking dashboard with Claude Code that emails her daily coaching summaries.

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of March 25th, 2026. OpenAI officially shut down Sora, its AI video generator, freeing up compute for its next major model called Spud — with employees reportedly calling Sora a drag on resources and the move putting its $1 billion Disney partnership on ice. Figure AI founder Brett Adcock emerged from stealth with Hark, a new AI device startup he personally funded with $100 million, aiming to build the most advanced personal AI ever with a team pulled from Apple, Google, Meta, and Tesla. Plus, Apple is reportedly testing a standalone Siri app and a new chatbot experience called “Ask Siri” set to debut at WWDC in June — likely its last shot at defining Siri before users default to Claude or ChatGPT for everything.

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of March 24th, 2026. Anthropic shipped a research preview giving Claude direct control of your Mac — clicking, typing, and navigating across apps while you assign tasks from your phone, marking a major step toward turning Claude into a full remote agent. Mark Zuckerberg is building a personal “CEO agent” to cut through Meta’s org chart for quick answers, while employees across the company are spinning up their own custom AI tools that negotiate with each other directly. Plus, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Lex Fridman “I think we’ve achieved AGI” — and a community workflow from a driver who used AI to fight a car insurance ruling and got his verdict reversed.