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Inside the rise and fall of Sora, whose team worked separately from OpenAI's core research team, as OpenAI 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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X: @andrewcurran_, @johnnyandai, @yuchenj_uw, @jon, @udiwertheimer, @cfryant, and @_simonsmith. LinkedIn: Dylan Jones. Bluesky: @maximillianquinn. Forums: Hacker News
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Bluesky's CEO 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 your own algorithm …
More: The Liquid Frontier, Gizmodo, The AI Economy, Engadget, The Verge, and Ubergizmo
Bluesky: @greblin, @parismarx.com, @jongraywb.blacksky.app, @jay.bsky.team, @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: @mastodonmigration … and @[email protected]
Forums: r/BlueskySocial, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| Sylvia Chang / BBC: |
PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors — In a hotel lobby on Hong Kong Island, a delivery robot pauses outside one of the lifts as the doors open, and a guest steps out.
Forums: r/technology
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese photonic chipmaker Yuanjie reported 2025 revenue up 138.5% YoY to ~$86.99M, data center revenue up 719% to ~$56.89M, 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 … | Lulu Garcia-Navarro / New York Times: |
Q&A with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on the platform's dominance, its impact on kids, the suspension and reinstatement of Trump's YouTube account, AI slop, and more — YouTube is now the leading way Americans watch video. Its audience is young; an astonishing 90 percent of American teenagers are on the platform.
More: TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and The Interview on YouTube
| Jemima McEvoy / The Information: |
Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue “significantly surpassed” $200M in 2023, and has “gone up” since then, despite its declining web traffic — Over much of the past year, David Holz, the 37-year-old founder of Midjourney, has devoted himself to a single task … | John Burn-Murdoch / Financial Times: |
Analysis: while social media rewards sensationalism and inflammatory content, LLMs guide people away from extreme positions and towards expert-aligned stances — Large language models elevate expert consensus and moderate views, in sharp contrast to social platforms © FT montage/Getty Images …
More: Implicator.ai and Paul Kedrosky
X: @stefanfschubert, @elliotrades, @kvallier, @garrytan, @jaybaxter, @undersecpd, @rachaelrad, @ryankatzrosene, @danshipper, @zachweinberg, @brian_stoffel_, @ericlevitz, @arctotherium42, @baldingsworld, @hashtaggriswold, @thelincoln, @valkenburgh, @greenplusane, @mattyglesias, @nathanpmyoung, @dkthomp, @silvervvulpes, @punicist, @xlr8harder, @jobhakdi, and @noahpinion. LinkedIn: Andrei Lopatenko
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X: @garymarcus, @vkhosla, @karpathy, and @heynavtoor. Bluesky: @jenlucpiquant. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/LateStageCapitalism
| Business Insider: |
Some developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause — - Apple's App Store is seeing an influx of new apps each month. — Developers say the flood of apps is increasing wait times.
More: 9to5Mac and Mashable
X: @jazzychad, @nikitabier, @noahpinion, @michael_kove, @themaran, @elonmusk, @paularambles, @austen, @flyosity, and @_eseidel. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: r/appledevelopers, r/iOSProgramming, and r/appledevelopers
| Financial Times: |
Some defense tech startups are considering relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some execs say the UK sector is at a “standstill” — Slow progress on government contracts prompts some groups to consider moving abroad| Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure vs. ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns about software stocks — Analysis by the Journal finds four of the largest private-credit funds have more exposure to the software industry than their filings suggest
More: Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams — When Matthew Allan realized nearly $100,000 in Bitcoin was missing from his Coinbase account, he wasn't too worried.
X: @business
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Hong Kong-listed AI drug discovery company Insilico Medicine and Eli Lilly sign a drug co-development deal worth up to $2.75B, with $115M in upfront payments — BEIJING — U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has reached a $2.75 billion deal to bring drugs developed using artificial intelligence …
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, Semafor, STAT, Insilico Medicine, South China Morning Post, Reuters, Benzinga, The Decoder, and Yahoo Finance
X: @andrewcurran_. LinkedIn: Sertac Yeltekin. Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, and r/business
| Alex Isenstadt / Axios: |
Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda — A new pro-AI political operation is jumping into this year's midterms with a plan to spend more than $100 million … | Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
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