The Daily AI Morning Roast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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:

🤖 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.

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💰 OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation — Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft lead the largest funding round in history. Sora killed, "Superapp" planned.

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🔓 Anthropic code leak: Thousands of lines of internal code exposed via contractor Mercor breach — including "Claude Code" and the unreleased "Mythos" model.

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🚀 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.

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🧠 DeepMind breakthrough: An LLM rewrote its own game theory algorithms — and outperformed human experts. Recursive self-improvement, but for math (for now).

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🤖 Google folds Intrinsic into DeepMind — Alphabet's robotics moonshot gets direct access to DeepMind. Robots + LLMs = Google's next move toward physical AI.

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💸 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.

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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

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.

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:
🔒 Anthropic cuts off third-party tools like OpenClaw — 135,000 instances affected, costs up 50x. They call it "capacity protection."Source
🧬 Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio for $400M — under 10 employees, zero revenue. Building a healthcare division from scratch.Source
🐛 Claude hacks FreeBSD kernel in 8 hours — 500+ zero-day vulnerabilities found in open-source software, including a working remote kernel exploit.Source
🇨🇳 DeepSeek V4 runs on Huawei chips — China's answer to NVIDIA export controls. Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent pre-ordering hundreds of thousands of chips.Source
🇪🇺 EU bans AI-generated images from official communications — no more AI visuals in Commission, Parliament, or Council comms.Source
💻 Alibaba launches Qwen 3.6-Plus for agentic coding — 1M token context, code from screenshots, allegedly on Claude Opus 4.5 level.Source