AI News for April 7, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic hits $30B run rate, signs multi-gigawatt TPU deal with Google and Broadcom: Anthropic's revenue run rate surpassed $30B, tripling from $9B at end of 2025.
[NEWS] OpenAI proposes robot taxes, public wealth fund, and 4-day workweek for superintelligence era: OpenAI released a 13-page policy paper titled "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" proposing sweeping economic reforms: a public wealth fund channeling AI profits to citizens, higher capital gains and corporate taxes, incentives for 4-day workweeks without pay cuts, and taxes on automated labor.
[NEWS] New Yorker investigation finds widespread distrust of Sam Altman among OpenAI insiders: A 1.5-year New Yorker investigation based on 100+ interviews portrays Sam Altman as deeply polarizing.
[NEWS] OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google join forces to combat Chinese model copying: The three leading US AI labs have begun collaborating to stop Chinese competitors from extracting results from their frontier models to gain an edge in the global AI race.
[NEWS] Iran threatens 'complete annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi: Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps published a video threatening OpenAI's in-progress Stargate facility in the UAE, showing satellite imagery and vowing retaliation if the US attacks Iranian civilian infrastructure.
[NEWS] Goldman Sachs: AI erasing 16,000 net US jobs per month, Gen Z hit hardest: Goldman Sachs economists estimate AI substitution eliminates roughly 25,000 jobs per month while augmentation adds back 9,000, for a net loss of 16,000.
[RESEARCH] Generalist's GEN-1 robotics model hits 99% reliability across physical tasks: Robotic ML company Generalist announced GEN-1, a physical AI system crossing "production-level success rates" on tasks from folding boxes to fixing vacuums.
[NEWS] Samsung profit jumps 8-fold on AI chip demand, shares rise 5%: Samsung Electronics posted stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, up 8x YoY, driven by robust demand for memory chips used in AI and data centers.
[NEWS] Goldman: tech-displaced workers face decade of lower wages and 'scarring' effects: Goldman Sachs analyzed 40 years of labor data tracking 20,000+ workers and found technology-displaced workers see real earnings grow 10 percentage points less over the following decade compared to never-displaced workers.
[NEWS] Medvi's $1.8B telehealth story turns darker: AI-generated fake doctors found in ad campaigns: Business Insider found that Medvi, the two-employee startup profiled for $1.8B in projected sales, ran ads featuring AI-generated fake doctors to market its weight-loss drugs.

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