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Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI plans to discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT  —  The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions
Financial Times:
Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers  —  SoftBank-owned tech group projects fivefold revenue increase in five years  —  Meta and OpenAI will be among the first customers …
VideoCardz.com:
Arm says its AGI CPU offers up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 6GB/s memory bandwidth per core, and more than 2x performance per rack compared with x86 systems  —  Arm launches AGI CPU, its first data center chip  —  Arm has announced the AGI CPU, its first production silicon product and its first Arm-designed data center CPU.
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Bloomberg:
Epic cuts 1,000+ jobs, saying it is “spending significantly more” than it is making and that the layoffs and $500M in savings put it “in a more stable place”  —  The company is seeing a downturn in engagement on Fortnite  —  Epic Games Inc. is cutting …
Thomas Claburn / The Register:
Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code  —  Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's plans for a Siri reboot include a standalone Siri app, an overhauled interface in the Dynamic Island, and Ask Siri and Write with Siri features  —  Apple Inc. is testing a standalone app for its Siri voice assistant alongside a new “Ask Siri” feature that will work across …
Maria Curi / Axios:
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is “troubling” and that “it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic”  —  A federal judge on Tuesday called the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic “troubling” as the AI company urged the court …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages  —  A jury has reached a verdict in a major New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada  —  Apple on Tuesday announced that it will begin to allow advertisers to target customers on Apple Maps, starting in the U.S. and Canada later this summer.
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
Anthropic announces an “auto mode” that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Claude's auto mode reduces permission prompts for developers.
Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin  —  Quick Take  — Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves.
Greg Bensinger / Reuters:
Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month  —  Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates an Apple Music playlist from a prompt, 8 new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more  —  Apple has released iOS 26.4, bringing 13 enhancements to your iPhone.  The new software update includes 8 new emoji characters …
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who apologized for Grammarly's Expert Review feature, on impersonation, attribution, compensating creators, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that's the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product.
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain  —  Under the exchange's plan, stocks would trade as digital tokens  —  The New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it was joining …
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI revamps ChatGPT's shopping experience by letting users upload images or describe items and include criteria like their budget  —  OpenAI is rolling out a new shopping experience within ChatGPT to make it easier for users to find and compare products, after its Instant Checkout feature failed to take off.
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B  —  Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often described as a company's ‘central brain’ because the software connects different departments …
CoinDesk:
Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield  —  The latest version of the Clarity Act is pressuring stocks as it would restrict stablecoin rewards.  —  What to know:

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Paramount's $111B WBD takeover provided the company accepts certain remedies, the details of which are still being worked out

Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sony Pictures Entertainment invests $100M in Cosm, a startup specializing in immersive, large-screen theaters, which has partnerships with NBCUniversal and WBD

Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Court docs: Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino spoke with President Trump in the weeks before the company settled with the DOJ in its monopoly lawsuit

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Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
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