DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, April 18, 2026

From DX Today | No-Hype Podcast About AI & DX Rick Spair

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, April 18, 2026 Today on the brief: AI coding startup Cursor is in advanced talks to raise over two billion dollars at a fifty billion dollar valuation, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz with Nvidia participating. Meta Platforms will begin its first wave of 2026 layoffs on May 20, cutting close to eight thousand employees. Google is in active discussions with the Pentagon to deploy Gemini models in classified environments. xAI shipped Grok 4.3 beta to SuperGrok...