The $1.8B Solo Founder Is Here, OpenAI Buys a Media Company, Google Goes Open Source

Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 3rd, 2026. A guy in LA launched a telehealth startup from his house with $20,000, a stack of AI tools, and one full-time hire — his brother — and is now on pace for $1.8 billion in annual sales, becoming one of the first real examples of Sam Altman’s prediction that AI would make the solo billion-dollar company possible. OpenAI made its first media acquisition, buying TBPN — the daily live tech talk show beloved by Silicon Valley CEOs — for reportedly hundreds of millions, with the goal of owning a direct line to the tech world’s most influential voices. Plus, Google released Gemma 4, its most permissive open-source model family yet under an Apache 2.0 license, and a community workflow from a guy in Barcelona who has Claude Cowork automatically brief him every morning at 8am by pulling from HubSpot, Slack, Gmail, and his calendar.