2026-04-30: Big Tech's Q1 earnings reveal a compute crunch limiting AI growth

Show Notes - 2026-04-30 Stories Covered: - Date: - Today: - The AI Compute Bottleneck Is Here (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/google-cloud-surpasses-20b-but-says-growth-was-capacity-constrained/) - n8n's MCP Server Lets You Build Workflows from Prompts (https://blog.n8n.io/n8n-mcp-server/) - Simon Willison's LLM 0.32a0 Refactor (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/29/llm/#atom-everything) - Human-in-the-Loop vs. Human-on-the-Loop: When to Use Each (https://blog.n8n.io/human-in-the-loop-vs-human-on-the-loop/) - The Zig Project's Anti-LLM Contribution Policy (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/#atom-everything) - Microsoft Copilot Crosses 20 Million Paid Seats (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/microsoft-says-it-has-over-20m-paid-copilot-users-and-they-really-are-using-it/) - OpenAI Expands to AWS, Ends Microsoft Exclusivity (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/29/openai-drift-from-microsoft-to-amazon-turns-aggressive-after-subtlety.html) - Anthropic Fielding $50B Fundraise Offers at $900B Valuation (https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/sources-anthropic-could-raise-a-new-50b-round-at-a-valuation-of-900b/) - Nvidia Invests in Legal AI Startup Legora (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/nvidia-backs-ai-legal-tech-legora.html) - OpenAI's "Goblin" Problem and How They Fixed It (https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from) - CRM Decision Framework (https://zapier.com/blog/pipedrive-vs-hubspot) Full brief: https://carolinacleartech.com/ai-brief/2026-04-30/