DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, April 18, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, April 18, 2026Today on the brief: AI coding startup Cursor is in advanced talks to raise over two billion dollars at a fifty billion dollar valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz with Nvidia participating. Meta Platforms will begin its first wave of 2026 layoffs on May 20, cutting close to eight thousand employees. Google is in active discussions with the Pentagon to deploy Gemini models in classified environments. xAI shipped Grok 4.3 beta to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers. GE HealthCare expanded its AI breast cancer screening partnership with DeepHealth. Mozilla unveiled Thunderbolt, a self-hosted enterprise AI platform. OpenAI introduced GPT Rosalind, a life sciences reasoning model. ChatGPT began showing ads to free and Go users in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Waymo opened fully driverless service to everyone in Miami and Orlando and took fleets onto Florida highways. Elon Musk launched XChat, a WeChat style super app powered by Grok. Nvidia released Ising, the first open AI model family for quantum computing. And Stanford's 2026 AI Index concluded China has essentially erased the US lead in model performance.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AICoding #Robotaxi #DXToday