- Alibaba has been unmasked as the developer behind HappyHorse-1.0, the stealth AI video generation model that debuted at the top of global benchmarks.
- The model was initially released anonymously before Alibaba confirmed its ownership, underscoring the company's aggressive push in multimodal generative AI.
Snapshot — April 10, 2026
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- CoreWeave, the GPU cloud specialist, closed more than $21 billion in multi-year contracts in a single week, with both Meta and Anthropic signing as anchor customers.
- Shares surged 10.87% on the news, reflecting investor confidence in the company's position as a neutral AI infrastructure provider.
- The deals underscore the extraordinary scale of compute commitments being made by frontier AI labs to secure long-term cloud capacity.
- Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a formal investigation into OpenAI following allegations that ChatGPT was used by the perpetrator of the Florida State University shooting.
- The probe marks the first U.S. state-level criminal referral involving a major AI company in connection with a mass shooting and sets a precedent for state-level AI accountability that other attorneys general are watching closely.
CoreWeave Books $21B+ in AI Cloud Deals in One Week — Stock Surges 10.87%
- Legislators including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed legislation on April 11 calling for a nationwide moratorium on new AI data center construction, citing environmental concerns including electricity consumption, water usage, electricity price spikes in affected communities, and job displacement from AI automation.
- Meta has debuted Muse Spark, its first major proprietary AI model since its $14B deal to bring in Scale AI's Alexandr Wang — a notable departure from the company's longstanding open-source approach under the LLaMA family.
- The consumer-facing app rocketed to #5 on the App Store within hours of launch.
- The product marks a strategic pivot toward monetizing AI directly rather than seeding the developer ecosystem.
- Replit's Agent 4 can now build, test, and deploy complete full-stack web applications from a single natural language prompt, with the AI handling database schema, API routing, frontend generation, and cloud deployment autonomously.
- Replit reported over 2 million new projects created by non-developer users in March 2026, fueling what is now widely called "vibe coding" — functional app creation through conversational AI by people with no coding background.