--- title: Best The Next Web posts — April 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted The Next Web posts from April 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/tnw/best-of/2026/04 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/tnw/best-of/2026/04 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best The Next Web posts — April 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted The Next Web posts from April 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of The Next Web — April 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-apologises-after-openai-chose-not-to-report-chatgpt-user-who-carried-out-tumbler-ridge-sc-oppki0u7e "Sam Altman apologises after OpenAI chose not to report ChatGPT user who carried out Tumbler Ridge school shooting") Article The Next Web · 19w Sam Altman apologises after OpenAI chose not to report ChatGPT user who carried out Tumbler Ridge school shooting Sam Altman issued a public apology to the community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, after it emerged that OpenAI's automated systems flagged a ChatGPT user eight months before they carried out Canada's deadliest school shooting in nearly four decades, killing eight people and injuring 27\. OpenAI employees who reviewed the flagged account recommended contacting police, but company leadership overruled them, citing a 'higher threshold' for credible and imminent threats. The account was banned but law enforcement was never notified. OpenAI has since voluntarily lowered its reporting threshold and established contact with the RCMP, but these changes carry no legal force and can be reversed at any time. Canada currently has no law requiring AI companies to report identified threats. The case is part of a broader pattern: OpenAI also faces scrutiny over ChatGPT's alleged role in the Florida State University shooting and multiple lawsuits over AI acting as a 'suicide coach.' Critics, including BC Premier David Eby and Canada's AI minister, called the apology and voluntary policy changes grossly insufficient, pointing to a structural gap where a company valued at $852 billion operates with no legal obligation to disclose dangerous behaviour it detects on its own platform. 79 10 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-stocks-vs-dot-com-bubble-cape-at-38-concentration-above-2000-levels-but-companies-are-actually-jp4iyvweb "AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable") Article The Next Web · 19w AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable The Shiller CAPE ratio sits at 38-40, second only to the dot-com peak of 44.19, and S&P 500 top-10 concentration now exceeds year-2000 levels by nearly 50%. However, unlike dot-com era companies, today's AI leaders are massively profitable — Nvidia alone earned $120B in net income, and the tech sector trades at 30x forward earnings versus 50x in 2000\. The central unresolved question is whether $660-690 billion in annual hyperscaler capex will generate returns that justify the investment. Bulls point to real earnings growth (Nasdaq-100 up 19% YoY) and committed cloud revenue backlogs; bears highlight OpenAI's $852B valuation with no profits, retail euphoria, and the historical precedent of fibre-optic companies that built real infrastructure but went bankrupt anyway. The bubble question cannot be answered until the AI infrastructure cycle produces results. 18 3 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-didn-t-invest-in-xanadu-but-it-made-its-ceo-a-billionaire-anyway-lshvtbavp "NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway") Article The Next Web · 20w NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway Xanadu Quantum Technologies CEO Christian Weedbrook became a billionaire after the company's stock surged nearly fivefold in six trading sessions, driven entirely by NVIDIA's announcements — not any direct investment in Xanadu. NVIDIA launched Ising, a family of open-source AI models for quantum error correction and calibration, and NVQLink, an architecture connecting GPUs to quantum processing units. These moves validated quantum computing as a near-term engineering problem, triggering a sector-wide rally. Xanadu, the only publicly traded pure-play photonic quantum company, was the biggest beneficiary despite having just $4.6M in 2025 revenue against a market cap that briefly exceeded $3 billion. The piece examines the extreme valuation multiples across quantum stocks — Rigetti at 1,025x sales, D-Wave at 325x — and questions whether the market's timeline matches the technology's actual trajectory. The broader theme is NVIDIA's ability to reshape entire sectors through strategic positioning, ensuring it sits at the center of quantum computing if and when it matures. 13 1 [See all The Next Web archives](/sources/tnw/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw/best-of/2026/04#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw/best-of/2026/04","name":"Best The Next Web Posts — April 2026","description":"The most upvoted The Next Web posts from April 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw/best-of/2026/04#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/sam-altman-apologises-after-openai-chose-not-to-report-chatgpt-user-who-carried-out-tumbler-ridge-sc-oppki0u7e","name":"Sam Altman apologises after OpenAI chose not to report ChatGPT user who carried out Tumbler Ridge school shooting"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/ai-stocks-vs-dot-com-bubble-cape-at-38-concentration-above-2000-levels-but-companies-are-actually-jp4iyvweb","name":"AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/nvidia-didn-t-invest-in-xanadu-but-it-made-its-ceo-a-billionaire-anyway-lshvtbavp","name":"NVIDIA didn’t invest in Xanadu, but it made its CEO a billionaire anyway"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"April 2026"}]}]} ```