AI News for April 3, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI acquires tech talk show TBPN in surprise media move: OpenAI bought TBPN, the daily three-hour tech livestream hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays that averages 70,000 viewers per episode.
[NEWS] Google releases Gemma 4 open models under Apache 2.0, its most permissive license yet: Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight models (E2B, E4B, 26B MoE, 31B Dense) built on the same research as its proprietary Gemini 3.
[NEWS] Microsoft launches three in-house AI models, signaling push for self-sufficiency: Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 through Microsoft Foundry, its first batch of foundational models built entirely by Mustafa Suleyman's superintelligence team.
[NEWS] Microsoft announces $10B AI investment in Japan over four years: Microsoft committed to a four-year, $10B investment package in Japan focused on AI infrastructure and cloud services.
[NEWS] Microsoft aims to build cutting-edge frontier AI models by 2027: Microsoft plans to develop large, frontier-class AI models in-house by next year, building alternatives to the most powerful tools from OpenAI and Anthropic.
[NEWS] DOJ appeals injunction that blocked Trump's Anthropic blacklist: The Trump administration has appealed the federal judge's preliminary injunction that blocked its ban on government use of Anthropic's AI.
[NEWS] Tech layoffs hit worst Q1 since 2023 as AI replaces coding roles: US tech companies announced 52,050 job cuts in Q1 2026, up 40% YoY, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
[NEWS] Arcee releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter open-source reasoning model: San Francisco-based Arcee AI released Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399B-parameter text-only reasoning model under Apache 2.0.
[OPINION] Greg Brockman says GPT reasoning models have 'line of sight' to AGI: OpenAI President Greg Brockman declared the debate over whether large language models can achieve general intelligence "definitively answered." Speaking on the Big Technology Podcast, he said OpenAI sees "line of sight" to AGI through text-based GPT reasoning models.
[NEWS] OpenAI CFO says compute crunch is forcing the company to pass on opportunities: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told ARK Invest's Cathie Wood that the company is "making some very tough trades" and skipping opportunities because it lacks sufficient compute in 2026.

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