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Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks — When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
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LinkedIn: Chuck Bamford PhD and Dylan Jones. Bluesky: @maximillianquinn. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback” — Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
More: Zach Manson, Neowin, and MakeUseOf
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total — French company's debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months — Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more — In his classic book “Understanding Media,” Marshall McLuhan dwells on the Greek myth of Narcissus.
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store now has 300+ app integrations six months after its launch, but faces sluggish adoption due to limited functionality for many apps — Six months in, ChatGPT's third-party apps offer limited functionality and have been frustrating for developers.| Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier program for early-stage testing, including a new Researcher Critique tool using Anthropic and OpenAI models — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI for work.
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LinkedIn: Gaurav Anand and LinkedIn
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Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns — No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
How Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has been an outspoken voice on politics, a rare tech leader openly criticizing Trump actions and an ICE shooting — AI pioneer Jeff Dean is a rare tech leader publicly criticizing Trump administration actions — At a moment when much of the tech industry … | Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications — Employers wading through job applications are returning to in-person and practical assessments
Bluesky: @wavesblog.eurosky.social and @carnage4life
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reports 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$87M and data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.9M, ahead of its April 1 Hong Kong IPO — Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology, a Chinese maker of laser chips for optical communications, has emerged as one of the mainland … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts — Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM.
X: @tobi, @_chenglou, @vladartym, @baconbrix, @_chenglou, @charliegreenman, @0xmrtn, @riyvir, @kevinleeus, @neogoose_btw, @domenic, @kho, @valcoholics1, @ahmedshahnab, @ukint_vs, @solarise_webdev, @gkurttech, @samjb1234, @davederiso, @_chenglou, @stevibe, @lucas__crespo, @its_bvisness, @steren, @lucas__crespo, @birdabo, and @_chenglou. Forums: Hacker News
| Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: |
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026 — Starcloud's latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider talks about Attie, a new agentic social app built on Bluesky's AT Protocol that uses Claude and lets users build custom feeds — The team from Bluesky has built another app — and this time, it's not a social network, but an AI assistant that allows you to design …
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X: @attie_ai, @arcalinea, @mikebutcher, @durvidimel, @attie_ai, and @durvidimel. LinkedIn: Andres Castañeda
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @blujbird, @jay.bsky.team, @jongraywb.blacksky.app, @parismarx.com, @greblin, @emfields, @bsky-brief.eurosky.social, @civilwarmemory, @craigburley.com, @tcparker, @mmatt.net, @jay.bsky.team, @laurenshof.online, @why.bsky.team, @attie.ai, @attie.ai, and @attie.ai
Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange and @mastodonmigration …
Forums: r/BlueskySocial, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026 — Uber Technologies Inc. has acquired the chauffeur booking app Blacklane, the company's latest move to court a high-end clientele.
More: TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, CBT News, Automotive World, and Dow Jones Newswires
| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed — Sycamore, an agentic AI operating system founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath, raised $65 million in seed funding led by Coatue and Lightspeed.| Derek Thompson: |
Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere — Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe.| Matthew S. Smith / IEEE Spectrum: |
Q&A with NYU professor Julian Togelius on his recent paper about LLMs' limitations in playing video games, why coding is a kind of well-designed game, and more — AI models code simple games, but struggle to play them — Large language models (LLMs) have improved so quickly … Sponsor Posts
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