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.

In today's episode:

🤖 Google releases Gemma 4 — its smartest open-source model yet. Kaggle launches a "Gemma 4 Good Hackathon" to go with it.

https://radicaldatascience.wordpress.com/2026/04/02/ai-news-briefs-bulletin-board-for-april-2026/

🎙️ OpenAI acquires tech podcast TBPN (hosts: John Coogan & Jordi Hays). Past guests include Zuckerberg and Nadella. "Editorial independence" supposedly intact. Sure.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/02/openai-acquires-tech-podcast-tbpn.html

🇯🇵 Microsoft invests $10B in Japan for AI & cyber defence infrastructure through 2029.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/microsoft-invest-10-billion-japan-ai-cyber-defence-expansion-2026-04-03/

📉 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.

https://nypost.com/2026/04/02/business/ai-pushes-2026-tech-layoffs-past-50k-and-counting-employers-say/

🏛️ Trump administration releases National AI Policy Framework — 7 pillars including child safety, IP, and federal preemption of state regulations.

https://www.mofo.com/resources/insights/260402-trump-administration-releases-national-ai-policy-framework

🔬 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.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01050-5

💰 AI lobby goes all-in on 2026 US midterms — millions flowing into campaigns to shape regulation before it shapes them.

https://abcnews.com/Politics/ai-industry-2026-midterms-government-regulations-looming/story?id=131610305

🎣 AI phishing: click rates up 450%. AI-generated phishing emails eliminate classic red flags. The dark side of progress.

https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/ki-phishing-die-neue-normalitaet-im-cyberkrieg/69061144