OpenAI Petitions California and Delaware AGs to Investigate Elon Musk's Anti-Competitive Conduct
Snapshot — April 6, 2026
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- Anthropic disclosed it has reached a $30 billion annualized revenue run rate, marking a dramatic acceleration in its commercial growth.
- Simultaneously, the company signed a major compute agreement for access to 3.5 gigawatts of Google TPU capacity provisioned through Broadcom, one of the largest AI infrastructure commitments ever announced by a private AI lab.
- Axios reported that Meta is developing open-source variants of its next generation of frontier AI models, internally codenamed Avocado and Mango.
- The move would continue Meta's strategy of releasing capable open-weight models to drive ecosystem adoption and counter proprietary competitors.
- Details on model sizes, capabilities, and release timelines remain limited, but sources indicate the models represent a significant capability leap over the Llama 4 series.
- Google DeepMind researchers published a significant security paper cataloging six distinct categories of adversarial attacks against autonomous AI agents operating on the web.
- The research — dubbed "AI Agent Traps" — identifies attack vectors including prompt injection, resource hijacking, goal misalignment via poisoned context, and deceptive tool outputs.
Anthropic Hits $30B Revenue Run Rate; Signs Landmark 3.5 GW TPU Deal with Google & Broadcom
Meta Planning Open-Source Releases of Next-Gen Models Codenamed "Avocado" and "Mango"
- Nvidia's move to acquire SchedMD — the maintainer of the widely used Slurm workload manager for high-performance computing clusters — has drawn sharp criticism from AI researchers and data center operators.
- Slurm is used to schedule jobs across the majority of the world's largest academic and government supercomputers, and experts warn that Nvidia's ownership could give it leverage to preference its own hardware or restrict competitors.
- OpenAI formally petitioned the Attorneys General of California and Delaware to open investigations into Elon Musk for alleged anti-competitive behavior, specifically related to his lawsuit campaign against OpenAI's for-profit restructuring.
- OpenAI argues that Musk's legal actions — combined with his stated goal of acquiring OpenAI — constitute coordinated efforts to harm a competitor while building his own rival AI company, xAI.
- OpenAI published a sweeping 13-page economic policy proposal advocating for robot and AI automation taxes on corporations, the creation of a publicly owned AI wealth fund to distribute AI productivity gains broadly, and encouragement for companies to pilot four-day workweeks as AI absorbs routine labor.
- Oracle is reportedly planning layoffs of between 20,000 and 30,000 employees as part of a strategic pivot to redirect capital toward AI infrastructure build-out.
- The cuts are among the largest in enterprise software history and reflect a broader pattern of legacy tech incumbents shedding traditional workforce costs to fund compute-heavy AI strategies.