Global Weekly Intelligence Brief — Apr 13-19, 2026

Highlights

• Layer Update (May ‘25) - Funding & next-level video🥳 | Layer Blogfunding
• Layer raises $6.5MM USD to keep delivering leading next-gen tools for game studios | Layer Blogfunding
• Slate Auto raises $650M to fund its affordable EV truck plansfunding
• AgentsView 0.22: open-source usage dashboard across Claude Code, Codex, etc.analysis
• Cursor in talks to raise $2B round at valuation of over $50Bfunding
• Sam Altman: Man charged with attempting to murder OpenAI bossnews
• OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktopanalysis
• Zuckerbot is coming: Meta is building an AI version of Mark Zuckerbergnews

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