Top stories in tech today: – Google to power Texas AI data center on gas
– Artemis II astronauts head to the moon
– Amazon is coming for Walmart — with robots
– Whoop is now a $10B fitness tracker – Quick hits on other tech news
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Top Tech Stories: AI Data Centers, Robots, and Space
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Meta Acquires Chinese AI Startup, Beijing Responds with Exit Ban
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Meta acquires Chinese AI startup Manus for 2 to 3 billion. Beijing panics: co-founders banned from leaving the country, Commerce Ministry investigation. After chips, after data, the Sino-American war enters its final phase: control of intelligence itself. [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @alex_tsico, 2026-04-03 14:27 UTC
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Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2 AI Model Generates Creative Images
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Here are few image create using Microsoft's new ai image model – MAI-Image-2 with prompts.
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Google DeepMind Adopts Apache 2.0 License for Open Models
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Love that Google DeepMind is following OpenAI’s suit w/ using Apache 2.0 license for their open weights models – congrats! but, can we please stop using Arena Elo as the de facto measure of performance?
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DeepSeek V4 Coming Soon with Native Huawei Ascend 950PR Support
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Huge: DeepSeek v4 probably in the next few weeks – and it will be running natively on Huawei's Ascend 950PR Chips DeepSeek is about to drop its next-gen V4 model (via The Information) and for the first time, it'll run natively on Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips, marking a genuine
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Google Releases Gemma 4 Free Open Source Model
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🚨 Google Just Made OpenClaw Free (GEMMA 4):
— Sharbel (@sharbel) 3 avril 2026
0:00 – Why Gemma 4 matters
0:48 – #3 open model in the world
1:24 – What Gemma 4 actually does
2:01 – What this means for OpenClaw
3:03 – How to set up Gemma 4
3:58 – My honest take after running Claude for 3 months pic.twitter.com/GCBGeZjsUW🚨 Google Just Made OpenClaw Free (GEMMA 4): 0:00 – Why Gemma 4 matters 0:48 – #3 open model in the world 1:24 – What Gemma 4 actually does 2:01 – What this means for OpenClaw 3:03 – How to set up Gemma 4 3:58 – My honest take after running Claude for 3 months
→ View original post on X — @demishassabis, 2026-04-03 13:57 UTC
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US: Anthropic Blacklisted, OpenAI Signs Pentagon Deal
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The US government blacklisted an AI company for the first time in American history. Anthropicwas already deep inside classified systems. Then the Pentagon demanded unrestricted access. Anthropic said no. Got labelled a national security risk. OpenAI rushed in with their own deal. But the full story is way more nuanced than what went viral. I break it all down in this carousel 👇 [Translated from EN to English]
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Netflix Launches Its VOID AI Model on Hugging Face
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Netflix: surprise we just released our new AI model VOID on @huggingface. Capabilities of Netflix's VOID Model:
– Object Removal with Environmental Awareness.
– Physical Interaction Handling.
– Open-Weight Access. [Translated from EN to English]→ View original post on X — @huggingface, 2026-04-03 13:20 UTC
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OpenAI Shifts Focus to Automated Researchers and Agent Systems
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Holy: OpenAI says it’s reallocating compute and talent toward its next generation of models, echoing the internal shift that preceded GPT-3.
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 3 avril 2026
The focus now is on “automated researchers” and agent-based systems that can execute complex tasks end-to-end.
It’s a signal that the lab… pic.twitter.com/4jMc4eJgTRHoly: OpenAI says it’s reallocating compute and talent toward its next generation of models, echoing the internal shift that preceded GPT-3. The focus now is on “automated researchers” and agent-based systems that can execute complex tasks end-to-end. It’s a signal that the lab
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Weekly Roundup: Moon, OpenAI Acquisition, Gemma 4, Solar Efficiency
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We're going back to the fucking Moon.
OpenAI acquires TBPN.
Google DeepMind (what a great lab! hey guys!) releases Gemma 4.
Solar cells hit 130% efficiency (?).
Somos raises $40M. + Science Breakthroughs, grid, Bangalter What a week for the optimists.