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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI says it will 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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Disney ends its three-year OpenAI licensing deal, signed in December 2025, in which it agreed to invest $1B in OpenAI and license 200+ of its 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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| Reuters: |
Sources: some Sora team employees were surprised by OpenAI's move to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog post about 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.
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment” — It's about GPUs. Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.
More: Nairametrics, Blockonomi, and Information Age
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
A New Mexico jury finds Meta violated the state's unfair practices act by not safeguarding its apps from child predators; Meta must pay $375M in civil 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 AGI CPU, its own AI chip, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI are early clients; ARM jumps 10%+ — SoftBank-owned tech group projects fivefold revenue increase in five years — Meta and OpenAI will be among the first customers …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure — Move follows pressure from government on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online
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| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
President Trump names Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jensen Huang, and others to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, co-chaired by David Sacks — Group to advise the president on how to regulate artificial intelligence, among other issues — WASHINGTON—President Trump plans …
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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 … | Axios: |
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg debuts Meta Small Business, a company-wide priority to support entrepreneurship and drive AI use, led by Dina Powell McCormick and others — - Zuckerberg asks product managers, designers, engineers and other employees to reach out if they want to work on the new effort.
More: TechCrunch, The Information, PYMNTS.com, and Crypto Briefing
| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Meta confirms plans to lay off staff; sources say the cuts impact a few hundred people; a source says across Reality Labs, social media, recruiting, and sales — Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter …
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, Business Insider, Benzinga, NewsMax.com, and CNBC
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's three actions toward Anthropic are “troubling” and that they look “like an attempt to cripple Anthropic” — A federal judge on Tuesday called the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic “troubling” as the AI company urged …
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Forums: r/Anthropic and r/politics
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Meta offers top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO to retain talent, if it hits stock-price milestones over the coming years — Meta Platforms Inc. is offering top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO — an effort to retain …
More: The Information, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Star, and CNBC
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year — Granola Inc., a startup whose artificial intelligence software has been gaining traction as a notetaking tool among Silicon Valley workers … | 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 … | 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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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators — Social media platform X swiftly backtracked on its announcement regarding new rules for creator monetization …
More: Engadget and Livemint
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI science startup Periodic Labs, founded by ex-OpenAI VP Liam Fedus and DeepMind's Ekin Cubuk, aims to raise hundreds of millions at a ~$7B valuation — Periodic Labs, an artificial intelligence research startup founded last year by former OpenAI and DeepMind staffers … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K+ users at 1,300+ organizations — With OpenAI and Anthropic soaring to a combined valuation of more than $1 trillion, some in the artificial intelligence industry fear … | Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Normal Computing, which uses AI to help chip companies design chips more efficiently, raised $50M led by Samsung Catalyst and says it has 5+ top chip clients — Normal Computing has raised $50 million in a round led by Samsung Catalyst as the startup pursues a two-pronged bet on the future of AI hardware …
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| Ann E. Marimow / New York Times: |
SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 — Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer — Notch Ltd., a startup offering an artificial intelligence operating system for regulated industries, today announced … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's Siri reboot plans 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” …
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Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @smtuffy
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: |
Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M — Dispute-tracking fintech Glimpse announced Wednesday that it raised a $35 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and Y Combinator.
More: a16z
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: worsening supply constraints in Intel and AMD CPUs add a fresh blow to PC and server makers already hammered by an unprecedented memory chip shortage — TAIPEI — Worsening supply constraints in central processing units made by Intel and AMD are adding fresh pain for PC …
More: Benzinga, Barron's Online, PC Gamer, and Business Standard
| The Information: |
Source: SpaceX is aiming to file its IPO prospectus with regulators later this week or next week, and could try to raise $75B+, up from a previous $50B estimate — 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.| Chris Baraniuk / BBC: |
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