DAILY INTELLIGENCE BRIEF

The Vault — AI Edition

Friday, April 10, 2026

17 stories
13,784 words
4 categories
68 min read

Business

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Meta Commits Additional $21 Billion to CoreWeave in Expanded AI Cloud Deal Through 2032

Meta Platforms commits an additional $21 billion to CoreWeave through 2032, bringing total contracts to $35 billion and signaling aggressive AI...

$21BRead
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Perplexity ARR Tops $450 Million as Agent Pivot Drives 50% Monthly Growth

Perplexity has shattered revenue records with a stunning 50% revenue jump in March 2026, pushing annual recurring revenue past $450 million. The milestone,...

$450MRead
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Revolut Launches AIR AI Financial Assistant to 13 Million UK Customers

Revolut launches AIR, an AI financial assistant, to 13 million UK customers on April 9, 2026, enabling conversational banking with zero data retention.

04 4 min

Intel and Google Cloud Expand Multiyear AI Chip Partnership with Xeon and Custom IPUs

Intel and Google announced a landmark expansion of their strategic partnership on April 9, 2026, committing to a multiyear collaboration that underscores a...

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TSMC Q1 2026 Revenue Jumps 35% to Record High as AI Chip Demand Holds Strong

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported record Q1 2026 revenue of NT$1.134 trillion, up 35.1% year-over-year, driven by insatiable AI chip...

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LLMs & GenAI

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Meta Unveils Muse Spark, First AI Model Built Under Alexandr Wang's Superintelligence Labs

On April 8, Meta announced Muse Spark, the first flagship AI model from Alexandr Wang's newly formed superintelligence labs—a $14.3 billion bet on...

$14.3 billionRead
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NVIDIA Releases Cosmos Open World Foundation Models to Accelerate Physical AI

NVIDIA has unleashed Cosmos, a family of open world foundation models designed to democratize physical AI development and bring humanlike spatial reasoning...

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Anthropic Launches Claude Managed Agents API to Run Enterprise AI Workflows at Scale

Anthropic has launched Claude Managed Agents, a cloud-hosted infrastructure service that simplifies enterprise AI agent deployment in public beta as of...

$0.08Read
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Z.ai's GLM-5.1 Open-Source Model Tops Global SWE-Bench Pro, Challenging Proprietary AI Leaders

Z.ai released GLM-5.1, a 754-billion parameter open-source coding model that topped the SWE-Bench Pro leaderboard with a score of 58.4, surpassing OpenAI's...

754BRead
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Genspark Launches AI Workspace 4.0 with Desktop Claw and Deep Microsoft Office Integration

Genspark released AI Workspace 4.0 on April 8, combining Desktop Claw, a native desktop agent, with deep Microsoft Office integration.

April 8, 2026Read

Research

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DrugCLIP: AI Framework Achieves 10-Million-Fold Speedup in Virtual Drug Screening

Researchers unveiled DrugCLIP, an AI framework that screens drug molecules 10 million times faster than traditional methods, evaluating 10 trillion...

10 million timesRead
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MIT's AI-Powered Lab Discovers Record-Breaking Fuel Cell Catalyst in Just 90 Days

MIT's CRESt platform, an AI-powered lab that combines LLMs with automated robotics, discovered a fuel cell catalyst with 9.3x the power density of the...

9.3xRead
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Tether Launches QVAC SDK: Stablecoin Giant Pivots to Decentralized AI Infrastructure

Tether, the stablecoin giant with $186 billion in USDT circulation and $10 billion in 2025 profit, released QVAC SDK, an open-source framework for running...

$10BRead
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Microsoft Open-Sources Harrier: Decoder-Only Multilingual Embedding Model Tops MTEB

Microsoft released Harrier-OSS-v1, an open-source multilingual embedding model family supporting 100+ languages and achieving state-of-the-art performance...

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Policy

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xAI Sues Colorado Over Nation's First Comprehensive AI Bias Law, Citing First Amendment

Elon Musk's xAI filed suit against Colorado on April 9, challenging SB 24-205, the nation's first comprehensive state AI bias law, arguing it violates the...

June 30, 2026Read
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South Korea's Basic AI Act Takes Extraterritorial Effect, Reshaping Global AI Compliance

South Korea's AI Basic Act enforcement imposes extraterritorial compliance obligations on foreign AI companies serving Korean users, with risk-based...

30M won (~$22,00Read
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Maine Passes Strict Limits on AI in Licensed Therapy After Wave of Teen Harm Incidents

Maine's legislature approved LD 2082, restricting how licensed therapists use AI in clinical settings, as states move to regulate AI mental health tools in...