The NextWave Signal — Issue #1 | Week of 31 March – 4 April 2026
2 min readReasoning models hit production with a 5–10x cost premium, EU AI Act high-risk rules delayed to December 2027, Gemma 4 goes Apache 2.0, and Intel/AMD CPUs up 10–15%. Plus: the agent governance gap — 74% deploying, 21% ready.