DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, April 4, 2026

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, April 4, 2026Microsoft commits ten billion dollars to AI infrastructure in Japan partnering with Sakura Internet and SoftBank. Google releases Gemma 4, its most capable open models under Apache 2.0 license. Cursor launches version three with an agent-first IDE built for autonomous coding workflows. Oracle executes its largest layoff ever, cutting up to thirty thousand employees to fund AI data centers. DeepSeek V4 launch is reported imminent after delays adapting to Huawei chips. California Governor Newsom signs an executive order setting new AI procurement standards in defiance of federal rollbacks. Tennessee bans AI systems from posing as mental health professionals. The Challenger jobs report reveals AI now leads all reasons for US job cuts in March. Salesforce overhauls Slack with thirty new AI features including autonomous desktop monitoring. OpenAI closes a record one hundred twenty-two billion dollar funding round. Bluesky unveils Attie, an AI assistant that has already been blocked by over one hundred twenty-five thousand users. And Crunchbase data shows Q1 2026 venture funding hit an all-time high of three hundred billion dollars driven almost entirely by AI.DX Today - Your daily AI news briefing, delivered every morning.Send us fan mail#AINews #ArtificialIntelligence #AIJobs #OpenModels #DXToday