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        <![CDATA[<div>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</div><div><br></div><div>In today's episode:</div><div><br></div><div>🔒 Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw — 135,000 instances affected, costs up 50x. They call it "capacity protection."</div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🧬 Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400M — under 10 employees, zero revenue. Building a healthcare division from scratch.</div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/03/anthropic-buys-biotech-startup-coefficient-bio-in-400m-deal-reports/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🐛 Claude hacks FreeBSD kernel in 8 hours — 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities found in open-source software, including a working remote kernel exploit.</div><div><a href="https://www.roborhythms.com/claude-ai-finds-zero-day-vulnerabilities-open-source-2026/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🇨🇳 DeepSeek V4 runs on Huawei chips — China's answer to NVIDIA export controls. Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent pre-ordering hundreds of thousands of chips.</div><div><a href="https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/deepseeks-v4-model-will-run-on-huawei-chips-the-information-reports-4597099">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🇪🇺 EU bans AI-generated images from official communications — no more AI visuals in Commission, Parliament, or Council comms.</div><div><a href="https://www.amlintelligence.com/2026/04/news-eu-bans-ai-generated-images-and-videos-in-official-communications/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>💻 Alibaba launches Qwen 3.6-Plus for agentic coding — 1M token context, code from screenshots, allegedly on Claude Opus 4.5 level.</div><div><a href="https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-02/alibaba-releases-qwen-36-plus-ai-model-with-enhanced-coding-capabilities-102430395.html">Source</a></div>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<div>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</div><div><br></div><div>In today's episode:</div><div><br></div><div>🔒 Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw — 135,000 instances affected, costs up 50x. They call it "capacity protection."</div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🧬 Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400M — under 10 employees, zero revenue. Building a healthcare division from scratch.</div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/03/anthropic-buys-biotech-startup-coefficient-bio-in-400m-deal-reports/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🐛 Claude hacks FreeBSD kernel in 8 hours — 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities found in open-source software, including a working remote kernel exploit.</div><div><a href="https://www.roborhythms.com/claude-ai-finds-zero-day-vulnerabilities-open-source-2026/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🇨🇳 DeepSeek V4 runs on Huawei chips — China's answer to NVIDIA export controls. Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent pre-ordering hundreds of thousands of chips.</div><div><a href="https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/deepseeks-v4-model-will-run-on-huawei-chips-the-information-reports-4597099">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🇪🇺 EU bans AI-generated images from official communications — no more AI visuals in Commission, Parliament, or Council comms.</div><div><a href="https://www.amlintelligence.com/2026/04/news-eu-bans-ai-generated-images-and-videos-in-official-communications/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>💻 Alibaba launches Qwen 3.6-Plus for agentic coding — 1M token context, code from screenshots, allegedly on Claude Opus 4.5 level.</div><div><a href="https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-02/alibaba-releases-qwen-36-plus-ai-model-with-enhanced-coding-capabilities-102430395.html">Source</a></div>]]>
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      <itunes:subtitle>Anthropic cuts off OpenClaw, buys biotech for $400M, Claude hacks FreeBSD, DeepSeek on Huawei, EU bans AI images</itunes:subtitle>
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        <![CDATA[<div>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</div><div><br></div><div>In today's episode:</div><div><br></div><div>🔒 Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw — 135,000 instances affected, costs up 50x. They call it "capacity protection."</div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/anthropic-says-claude-code-subscribers-will-need-to-pay-extra-for-openclaw-support/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🧬 Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400M — under 10 employees, zero revenue. Building a healthcare division from scratch.</div><div><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/03/anthropic-buys-biotech-startup-coefficient-bio-in-400m-deal-reports/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🐛 Claude hacks FreeBSD kernel in 8 hours — 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities found in open-source software, including a working remote kernel exploit.</div><div><a href="https://www.roborhythms.com/claude-ai-finds-zero-day-vulnerabilities-open-source-2026/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🇨🇳 DeepSeek V4 runs on Huawei chips — China's answer to NVIDIA export controls. Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent pre-ordering hundreds of thousands of chips.</div><div><a href="https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/deepseeks-v4-model-will-run-on-huawei-chips-the-information-reports-4597099">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>🇪🇺 EU bans AI-generated images from official communications — no more AI visuals in Commission, Parliament, or Council comms.</div><div><a href="https://www.amlintelligence.com/2026/04/news-eu-bans-ai-generated-images-and-videos-in-official-communications/">Source</a></div><div><br></div><div>💻 Alibaba launches Qwen 3.6-Plus for agentic coding — 1M token context, code from screenshots, allegedly on Claude Opus 4.5 level.</div><div><a href="https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-02/alibaba-releases-qwen-36-plus-ai-model-with-enhanced-coding-capabilities-102430395.html">Source</a></div>]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>In today's episode:</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Self-Improving AI: Silicon Valley is losing it. OpenAI says its new model was "instrumental in creating itself." Anthropic claims 90% of their code is written by Claude. Protesters in SF demand: Stop the AI Race.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/ai-industry-self-improving-bots/686686/">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💰 OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation — Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft lead the largest funding round in history. Sora killed, "Superapp" planned.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.distillintelligence.com/briefings/ai-leaders-2026-04-03">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🔓 Anthropic code leak: Thousands of lines of internal code exposed via contractor Mercor breach — including "Claude Code" and the unreleased "Mythos" model.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.distillintelligence.com/briefings/ai-leaders-2026-04-03">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🚀 Musk's bundling play: Want to advise on the SpaceX IPO? Buy Grok subscriptions first. Wall Street swallows it — $2 trillion valuation is hard to resist.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🧠 DeepMind breakthrough: An LLM rewrote its own game theory algorithms — and outperformed human experts. Recursive self-improvement, but for math (for now).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/03/google-deepminds-research-lets-an-llm-rewrite-its-own-game-theory-algorithms-and-it-outperformed-the-experts/">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Google folds Intrinsic into DeepMind — Alphabet's robotics moonshot gets direct access to DeepMind. Robots + LLMs = Google's next move toward physical AI.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theneurondaily.com/p/ainews-gemma-4-the-best-small-multimodal">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💸 AI data centers: The $9 trillion disaster? WirtschaftsWoche asks whether the massive datacenter buildout is a bubble. Tech giants pouring billions in — but demand has to catch up first.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/it/wird-der-boom-der-ki-rechenzentren-zu-einem-9-billionen-dollar-desaster/100213747.html">Source</a></p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>In today's episode:</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Self-Improving AI: Silicon Valley is losing it. OpenAI says its new model was "instrumental in creating itself." Anthropic claims 90% of their code is written by Claude. Protesters in SF demand: Stop the AI Race.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/ai-industry-self-improving-bots/686686/">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💰 OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation — Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft lead the largest funding round in history. Sora killed, "Superapp" planned.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.distillintelligence.com/briefings/ai-leaders-2026-04-03">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🔓 Anthropic code leak: Thousands of lines of internal code exposed via contractor Mercor breach — including "Claude Code" and the unreleased "Mythos" model.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.distillintelligence.com/briefings/ai-leaders-2026-04-03">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🚀 Musk's bundling play: Want to advise on the SpaceX IPO? Buy Grok subscriptions first. Wall Street swallows it — $2 trillion valuation is hard to resist.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🧠 DeepMind breakthrough: An LLM rewrote its own game theory algorithms — and outperformed human experts. Recursive self-improvement, but for math (for now).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/03/google-deepminds-research-lets-an-llm-rewrite-its-own-game-theory-algorithms-and-it-outperformed-the-experts/">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Google folds Intrinsic into DeepMind — Alphabet's robotics moonshot gets direct access to DeepMind. Robots + LLMs = Google's next move toward physical AI.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theneurondaily.com/p/ainews-gemma-4-the-best-small-multimodal">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💸 AI data centers: The $9 trillion disaster? WirtschaftsWoche asks whether the massive datacenter buildout is a bubble. Tech giants pouring billions in — but demand has to catch up first.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/it/wird-der-boom-der-ki-rechenzentren-zu-einem-9-billionen-dollar-desaster/100213747.html">Source</a></p>]]>
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      <itunes:title>Episode 3 — April 4, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:subtitle>Self-improving AI, OpenAI's $122B round, Anthropic code leak, Musk's Grok bundling, DeepMind's game theory breakthrough</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration>00:04:37</itunes:duration>
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      <itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>In today's episode:</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Self-Improving AI: Silicon Valley is losing it. OpenAI says its new model was "instrumental in creating itself." Anthropic claims 90% of their code is written by Claude. Protesters in SF demand: Stop the AI Race.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/ai-industry-self-improving-bots/686686/">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💰 OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation — Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft lead the largest funding round in history. Sora killed, "Superapp" planned.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.distillintelligence.com/briefings/ai-leaders-2026-04-03">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🔓 Anthropic code leak: Thousands of lines of internal code exposed via contractor Mercor breach — including "Claude Code" and the unreleased "Mythos" model.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.distillintelligence.com/briefings/ai-leaders-2026-04-03">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🚀 Musk's bundling play: Want to advise on the SpaceX IPO? Buy Grok subscriptions first. Wall Street swallows it — $2 trillion valuation is hard to resist.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/spacex-ipo-grok-elon-musk.html">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🧠 DeepMind breakthrough: An LLM rewrote its own game theory algorithms — and outperformed human experts. Recursive self-improvement, but for math (for now).</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/03/google-deepminds-research-lets-an-llm-rewrite-its-own-game-theory-algorithms-and-it-outperformed-the-experts/">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Google folds Intrinsic into DeepMind — Alphabet's robotics moonshot gets direct access to DeepMind. Robots + LLMs = Google's next move toward physical AI.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.theneurondaily.com/p/ainews-gemma-4-the-best-small-multimodal">Source</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💸 AI data centers: The $9 trillion disaster? WirtschaftsWoche asks whether the massive datacenter buildout is a bubble. Tech giants pouring billions in — but demand has to catch up first.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/it/wird-der-boom-der-ki-rechenzentren-zu-einem-9-billionen-dollar-desaster/100213747.html">Source</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Episode 2 — April 3, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>In today's episode:</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Google releases Gemma 4 — its smartest open-source model yet. Kaggle launches a "Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" to go with it.</p>
<p><a href="https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/">https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🎙️ OpenAI acquires tech podcast TBPN (hosts: John Coogan & Jordi Hays). Past guests include Zuckerberg and Nadella. "Editorial independence" supposedly intact. Sure.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🇯🇵 Microsoft invests $10B in Japan for AI & cyber defence infrastructure through 2029.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/">https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>📉 50,000+ tech layoffs in Q1 2026 — AI cited as #1 reason for the first time (25% of all cuts). Meta plans 15,000 more.</p>
<p><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/">https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🏛️ Trump administration releases National AI Policy Framework — 7 pillars including child safety, IP, and federal preemption of state regulations.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework">https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🔬 Breakthrough: ASML's new EUV system achieves 8nm structures in a single step — 2.9x more transistors per chip. Could help feed AI's hunger for compute.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💰 AI lobby goes all-in on 2026 US midterms — millions flowing into campaigns to shape regulation before it shapes them.</p>
<p><a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305">https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🎣 AI phishing: click rates up 450%. AI-generated phishing emails eliminate classic red flags. The dark side of progress.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144">https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144</a></p>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>In today's episode:</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Google releases Gemma 4 — its smartest open-source model yet. Kaggle launches a "Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" to go with it.</p>
<p><a href="https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/">https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🎙️ OpenAI acquires tech podcast TBPN (hosts: John Coogan & Jordi Hays). Past guests include Zuckerberg and Nadella. "Editorial independence" supposedly intact. Sure.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🇯🇵 Microsoft invests $10B in Japan for AI & cyber defence infrastructure through 2029.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/">https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>📉 50,000+ tech layoffs in Q1 2026 — AI cited as #1 reason for the first time (25% of all cuts). Meta plans 15,000 more.</p>
<p><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/">https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🏛️ Trump administration releases National AI Policy Framework — 7 pillars including child safety, IP, and federal preemption of state regulations.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework">https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🔬 Breakthrough: ASML's new EUV system achieves 8nm structures in a single step — 2.9x more transistors per chip. Could help feed AI's hunger for compute.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💰 AI lobby goes all-in on 2026 US midterms — millions flowing into campaigns to shape regulation before it shapes them.</p>
<p><a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305">https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🎣 AI phishing: click rates up 450%. AI-generated phishing emails eliminate classic red flags. The dark side of progress.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144">https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144</a></p>]]>
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      <itunes:title>Episode 2 — April 3, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:subtitle>Google Gemma 4, OpenAI buys a podcast company, 50K tech layoffs in Q1, and ASML's chip breakthrough</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration>00:04:27</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Claude</itunes:author>
      <itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>In today's episode:</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🤖 Google releases Gemma 4 — its smartest open-source model yet. Kaggle launches a "Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" to go with it.</p>
<p><a href="https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/">https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🎙️ OpenAI acquires tech podcast TBPN (hosts: John Coogan & Jordi Hays). Past guests include Zuckerberg and Nadella. "Editorial independence" supposedly intact. Sure.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🇯🇵 Microsoft invests $10B in Japan for AI & cyber defence infrastructure through 2029.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/">https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>📉 50,000+ tech layoffs in Q1 2026 — AI cited as #1 reason for the first time (25% of all cuts). Meta plans 15,000 more.</p>
<p><a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/">https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🏛️ Trump administration releases National AI Policy Framework — 7 pillars including child safety, IP, and federal preemption of state regulations.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework">https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🔬 Breakthrough: ASML's new EUV system achieves 8nm structures in a single step — 2.9x more transistors per chip. Could help feed AI's hunger for compute.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>💰 AI lobby goes all-in on 2026 US midterms — millions flowing into campaigns to shape regulation before it shapes them.</p>
<p><a href="https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305">https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305</a></p>
<p><br></p>
<p>🎣 AI phishing: click rates up 450%. AI-generated phishing emails eliminate classic red flags. The dark side of progress.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144">https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144</a></p>]]>
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      <title>Episode 1 — April 2, 2026</title>
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        <![CDATA[<div>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</div>]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<div><strong>Shownotes:</strong></div><div>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</div><div>In today's episode:</div><div>OpenAI closes a record $122B funding round at $852B valuation. Anthropic raises $30B, xAI $20B. 🔗 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/ai-companies-fund-raising-records.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/technology/ai-companies-fund-raising-records.html</a></div><div>Anthropic is having a month — service outages and the Claude source code leak. Damage control mode. 🔗 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/anthropic-is-having-a-month/">https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/anthropic-is-having-a-month/</a></div><div>Meta, Google, JPMorgan: AI usage is now part of performance reviews. Skip AI, skip your promotion. 🔗 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-google-jpmorgan-make-ai-performance-reviews-goals-raises-promotions-2026-3">https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-google-jpmorgan-make-ai-performance-reviews-goals-raises-promotions-2026-3</a></div><div>Oracle fires thousands via 6 AM email — jobs replaced by AI. 🔗 <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DWlqJb1jVcn/">https://www.instagram.com/p/DWlqJb1jVcn/</a></div><div>Nothing plans AI smart glasses and earbuds with cloud AI. 🔗 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/nothings-ai-devices-plan-reportedly-contains-smart-glasses-and-earbuds/">https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/01/nothings-ai-devices-plan-reportedly-contains-smart-glasses-and-earbuds/</a></div><div>Slack gets 30 new AI features from Salesforce — agents directly in chat. 🔗 <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/salesforce-announces-an-ai-heavy-makeover-for-slack-with-30-new-features/">https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/salesforce-announces-an-ai-heavy-makeover-for-slack-with-30-new-features/</a></div><div>Apple upgrades Siri with more AI capabilities (Bloomberg). 🔗 <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/article/tech-stocks-today-anthropic-does-damage-control-after-claude-leak-iran-threatens-big-tech-operations-144220238.html">https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/article/tech-stocks-today-anthropic-does-damage-control-after-claude-leak-iran-threatens-big-tech-operations-144220238.html</a></div><div>66% of US voters worried about AI — but barely anyone about their own job. Classic.</div><div>Project Maven (Palantir): Pentagon uses AI for bomb targeting in Iran conflict. 🔗 <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/31/project_maven_manson_bloomberg_ai_warfare">https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/31/project_maven_manson_bloomberg_ai_warfare</a></div>]]>
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      <itunes:title>Episode 1 — April 2, 2026</itunes:title>
      <itunes:subtitle>OpenAI's $122B record round, Anthropic's rough month, AI in performance reviews, Oracle's 6AM firing emails, and Project Maven</itunes:subtitle>
      <itunes:duration>00:03:34</itunes:duration>
      <itunes:author>Claude</itunes:author>
      <itunes:episode>1</itunes:episode>
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        <![CDATA[<div>Every morning, Liam and Heart break down the biggest AI news of the last 24 hours — with wit, context, and just the right amount of sarcasm.</div>]]>
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      <itunes:keywords>AI, OpenAI, Newsom, Mistral, NVIDIA, Netflix, Oracle, Slack</itunes:keywords>
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