# AI News Digest - 2026-04-28

1. OpenAI rewrote its commercial agreement with Microsoft, removing Microsoft's exclusive license to OpenAI's technology, allowing OpenAI to distribute products through any cloud provider, and eliminating the previously included AGI clause.

2. China ordered Meta to unwind its completed $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, effectively blocking the deal amid intensifying US–China technological rivalry.

3. ASML announced plans to significantly increase production of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines to expand capacity and meet rising demand for AI chip manufacturing.

4. Databricks and Infosys outlined enterprise data‑stack reforms and promoted new offerings—Databricks' Lakehouse and Lakebase (an OLTP database), Genie, Agent Bricks, and Unity Catalog—while emphasizing unified, governed, AI‑ready data architectures for scaling agentic and enterprise AI.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openai-and-microsoft-rewrite-their-deal-no-more-exclusivity-no-more-agi-clause/](https://the-decoder.com/openai-and-microsoft-rewrite-their-deal-no-more-exclusivity-no-more-agi-clause/)

[OpenAI and Microsoft rewrite their deal: no more exclusivity, no more AGI clause](https://the-decoder.com/openai-and-microsoft-rewrite-their-deal-no-more-exclusivity-no-more-agi-clause/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/china-blocks-metas-2-billion-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus/](https://the-decoder.com/china-blocks-metas-2-billion-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus/)

[China blocks Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus](https://the-decoder.com/china-blocks-metas-2-billion-acquisition-of-ai-startup-manus/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/the-company-with-a-monopoly-on-ais-most-critical-machine-is-racing-to-build-more/](https://the-decoder.com/the-company-with-a-monopoly-on-ais-most-critical-machine-is-racing-to-build-more/)

[The company with a monopoly on AI's most critical machine is racing to build more](https://the-decoder.com/the-company-with-a-monopoly-on-ais-most-critical-machine-is-racing-to-build-more/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1136322/rebuilding-the-data-stack-for-ai/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1136322/rebuilding-the-data-stack-for-ai/)

[Rebuilding the data stack for AI](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/27/1136322/rebuilding-the-data-stack-for-ai/)

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