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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 — OpenAI is planning to discontinue the app for its Sora video platform, a product it released to great fanfare last year …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: some Sora team members were surprised by OpenAI's sudden decision to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog on Sora safety standards — On Monday evening, Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI's AI video tool.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora — OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation platform it launched last year, without providing a reason for the decision.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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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| 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 … | Neal Stephenson / Graphomane: |
Neal Stephenson says he no longer believes head-mounted displays are the future, citing public discomfort with the devices and a general distrust of the users — Reflections on the latest and greatest Death of the Metaverse — It feels incumbent upon me to write something about last week's big news …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| Morgan Chittum / CNBC: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to “north of $120B” — OpenAI is raising an additional $10 billion from investors as part of its historic funding round, CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday.| Reuters: |
SK Hynix has submitted a confidential filing to the SEC for a possible listing of American depositary receipts in 2026; it reportedly considers raising ~$10B — South Korea's SK Hynix (000660.KS) said on Wednesday it has submitted a confidential filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Meta's rollout of Meta Ray-Ban Display in the EU has been hampered by regulations on AI features and removable batteries, as well as supply constraints — Meta Platforms Inc.'s rollout of new display-equipped Ray-Ban smart glasses in the European Union has been hampered by battery … | 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.
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| The Information: |
Source: SpaceX is aiming to file its IPO prospectus with regulators later this week or next week, and could try to raise more than $75B — SpaceX is aiming to file its initial public offering prospectus with regulators later this week or next week, according to a person with direct knowledge of the plans.
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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 …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD — Databricks has grown from startup into major software company, generating billions by processing data and running generative artificial intelligence models for clients.| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Baltimore sues xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in deceptive trade practices by marketing Grok as generally safe — Lawsuits against Elon Musk's xAI are piling up, with Baltimore becoming the first major U.S. city to file a complaint against the company concerning issues … | Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: |
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp, who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws — A judge ruled WhatsApp's former head of cybersecurity did not bring sufficient facts to the case when claiming violations by Meta and retaliation after the disclosure.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
The Trump administration settles the 2022 Murthy v. Missouri case, preventing the Surgeon General, CDC, and CISA from pressuring social media to suppress speech — The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media companies …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules — Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas — China has restricted two co-founders of Manus …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: worsening supply constraints in CPUs made by Intel and AMD add a fresh blow to PC and server makers already hit by a severe memory chip shortage — TAIPEI — Worsening supply constraints in central processing units made by Intel and AMD are adding fresh pain for PC … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance — Amazon.com Inc. acquired New York-based startup Fauna Robotics, becoming the latest technology giant to step into the burgeoning consumer humanoid market.
More: The Economic Times, Neowin, The Information, and TechCrunch
| Drew FitzGerald / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield — The firms are part of a consortium working on the $185 billion project's operating system — Anduril Industries and Palantir Technologies … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them — At a time when AI slop is flooding music streaming platforms, Spotify is beta testing a new “Artist Profile Protection” …
More: Spotify for Artists, Platformer, Fast Company, Billboard, Music Ally, and TechRadar. LinkedIn: Sam Duboff
| Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Amity, a Thailand-based startup that provides generative AI tools to businesses like retail and telecom, raised $100M in a Series D as it plans for a 2027 IPO — Thailand's Amity, which builds and integrates generative AI technology for businesses, raised $100 million as it gears …
More: DealStreetAsia and The Business Times
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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