April 2, 2026 — Morning Edition

• Tech
  Oracle Is Firing 30,000 People to Feed the AI Machine
  Oracle sent the emails at 6 a.m. Thirty thousand of them. The company is restructuring to fund its AI buildout. The humans are the line item.
• US News
  Trump's Economy Numbers Hit a New Low and the Fed Isn't Sugarcoating It Either
  Thirty-one percent. Trump's approval rating on the economy. That's not a dip — that's a collapse.
• World
  Iran Is Still Holding the Strait of Hormuz Hostage and Nobody Has a Plan
  Twenty percent of the world's oil and gas passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Right now it isn't peacetime.
• US News
  Democrats Sue Over Trump's Mail-In Voting Order — Here's Why It Actually Matters
  The lawsuit targets the executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote by mail. The legal fight is about more than mail-in ballots.
• Tech
  The Demo-to-Production Gap Is Where AI Dreams Go to Die
  The gap between what gets demoed and what actually ships in AI is where the real story is. April is when the industry starts finding out.
• World
  Lebanon Is Bleeding Again and the World Is Barely Watching
  Peacekeeper deployments are stalling, civilian casualties are mounting, and the UN's Wednesday brief reads like a dispatch from a world that has run out of attention for Lebanon.
• Entertainment
  The Final Season of Hacks Is Here and It Owes You Nothing
  Hacks is ending this month. The show has quietly become one of the best on television.
• Entertainment
  A24's 'The Drama' Opens This Week and It's Not What You Think
  They sold you a wedding. What you're getting is something else entirely. Zendaya stars in A24's most deliberately disorienting film in years.
• Tech
  Anthropic Is in Damage Control After a Claude Source Code Leak
  Source code tied to Claude's agent architecture has leaked. The era of AI-as-black-box just got more complicated.
• Short Form / Internet
  April Fools' Day 2026 Went Exactly As Embarrassing As You'd Expect
  It's April 2nd. The pranks are over. The world is exactly as it was yesterday, plus or minus your dignity.