Sources: OpenAI generated about $5.7B in revenue in Q1, nearly $1B more than Anthropic (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-1-billion-revenue-lead-anthropic-first-quarter
✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction
I wrote a short blog post reply to @…’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shap…
The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered,
with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City.
While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist…
I do miss condors and hummingbirds. This is such good news:
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/california-condors-nesting-in-pacific-northwest-for-first-time-in-a-century-on-yurok-territory/
NFL Nation mock draft: Our team reporters predict landing spots in the first round https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48494104/mock-draft-2026-nfl-nation-first-round-predictions
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal (Preeti Singh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…
Apple plans to broadcast an MLS game on Saturday shot entirely on 15 iPhone 17 Pros, the first major live sports event to be captured using only smartphones (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-mls-match-shot…
Humble unveils a fully electric cabless autonomous truck called the Humble Hauler and comes out of stealth with a $24M seed led by Eclipse (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/21/exclusive-humble-freight-autonomous-truck-eclipse-tr…
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 85% YoY to $81.6B, Data Center revenue up 92% to $75.2B, and announces an $80B additional share repurchase authorization (Nvidia Newsroom)
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-fo…