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onApril 18, 2026

35 State Attorneys General Launch Coordinated Investigation into xAI’s Grok for Generating Nonconsensual Intimate Images and CSAM

The largest coordinated state enforcement action against an AI company just launched—and it targets content safety failures that most…

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Artur Markus

onApril 10, 2026

Stargate Project Launches with $500 Billion Commitment—OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX Deploy $100 Billion Immediately for Texas Data Centers

The largest AI infrastructure bet in history was announced with $500 billion in commitments. Seven months later, Bloomberg reported no funds…

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Artur Markus

onApril 8, 2026

Ricursive Intelligence Raises $300M Series A at $4B Valuation for AI-Driven Chip Design—Ex-DeepMind Founders Build Platform That Automates Semiconductor Architecture

Two researchers just raised more than most companies exit for—to build AI that designs the chips that run AI. This is either the most circular…

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Artur Markus

onApril 7, 2026

FLORA Launches FAUNA on April 3: $52M-Backed AI Creative Agent Integrates 50+ Models on Node-Based Canvas to Combat Content Homogenization

Netflix is paying $16/month for an AI tool designed to make creative work slower. That sentence should break your brain—until you understand…

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Artur Markus

onApril 3, 2026

Microsoft Maia 200 Cuts AI Token Costs 30% with 140 Billion Transistors—3nm Chip Deployed January 27 in US Data Centers, Outperforms Amazon Trainium and Google TPU on Inference

Microsoft just made your AI inference bill 30% cheaper—not through clever prompt engineering or model distillation, but by building the most…

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Artur Markus

onApril 2, 2026

OpenAI Raises $122 Billion at $852 Billion Valuation on April 1, 2026—SoftBank Co-Leads Record AI Funding Round as Company Reports $2 Billion Monthly Revenue

OpenAI just raised more money in a single round than the entire GDP of Morocco, Kuwait, or Hungary. The $122 billion funding at an $852…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 28, 2026

ByteDance’s DeerFlow 2.0 Hits #1 on GitHub Trending with 35,300 Stars in 24 Hours—SuperAgent Framework Executes Code in Docker Sandboxes, Not Chat Windows

ByteDance just shipped an AI agent that doesn’t suggest code—it writes Python, spins up bash terminals, and deploys web apps inside its…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 27, 2026

Microsoft Unifies Copilot Teams on March 17—15 Million Users Represent Just 3% of Enterprise Base as Company Admits Lag Behind OpenAI and Google

Microsoft just published its own report card, and the grade is a C-minus. After two years and billions in infrastructure investment, Copilot…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 24, 2026

Meta Locks 6.6 GW of Nuclear Power Through Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo Deals—Largest Corporate Nuclear Commitment for AI Infrastructure

Meta just committed to more nuclear capacity than Switzerland’s entire grid produces. The AI energy arms race has moved past…

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Artur Markus

onMarch 23, 2026

PromptEng 2025 Workshop Accepts 7 Research Papers on January 24—First Academic Forum Dedicated to Prompt Engineering Techniques

While engineers debated whether prompt engineering was “real engineering,” seven research teams quietly got their papers…

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