DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, April 3, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, April 3, 2026Microsoft commits ten billion dollars to AI infrastructure in Japan, partnering with Sakura Internet and SoftBank to build cloud and AI capacity while training one million engineers by 2030. Alibaba releases Qwen 3.6-Plus with a million-token context window targeting agentic coding. Bloomberg reports AI-driven tech layoffs topped 52,000 in Q1, with AI cited as the reason for 25 percent of March job cuts. Oracle faces backlash after cutting 30,000 employees while filing thousands of H-1B visa petitions. Intel pays 14.2 billion dollars to buy back its Ireland Fab 34 stake from Apollo. Q1 2026 venture funding shatters records at 300 billion dollars, with AI capturing 80 percent. Mercor confirms a supply chain cyberattack through compromised LiteLLM code. Anthropic accidentally ships Claude Code source to npm. Salesforce rolls out 30 AI features for Slack including meeting intelligence and built-in CRM. Mistral secures 830 million in debt financing for a Paris AI data center. Nothing Technology plans AI smart glasses for 2027. And OpenAI shuts down Sora, scuttling its Disney partnership.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #VentureFunding #TechLayoffs #DXToday