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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 …
More: Silicon Canals, Hello China Tech, Digital Trends, Tech in Asia, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac
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Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| 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.
X: @katherinemiller, @markfollman, @mroth78, @kbandersen, and @k8brannen
Bluesky: @jfallows, @casparhenderson, @martinsfp, @emmaclairefoley, @mbkplus, @rusty.todayintabs.com, @fiona-webster22, @jtlg, @jasondovemark, @deborahavant, @thiagokrause, @mitpress, @malrog, and @dbcurren. Threads: @imdavidpierce. Forums: r/ezraklein
| Brent Lang / Variety: |
Amazon MGM's Project Hail Mary becomes its highest-grossing film ever, crossing $300M globally, including $54.1M just this weekend; the movie cost $200M to make — “Project Hail Mary” is officially Amazon MGM's highest-grossing film ever. — The space odyssey has grossed $300.8 million globally …
More: New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, Winnipeg Free Press, The Wrap, Deadline, Comic Book, and The Hollywood Reporter
Forums: Hacker News, r/TheBigPicture, and Slashdot
| 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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Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange and @mastodonmigration …
Forums: r/BlueskySocial, r/BetterOffline, and Slashdot
| 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 … | New York Times: |
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.| 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: @carnage4life and @wavesblog.eurosky.social
| 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, @lucas__crespo, @valcoholics1, @riyvir, @ahmedshahnab, @_chenglou, @ukint_vs, @its_bvisness, @kevinleeus, @solarise_webdev, @vladartym, @gkurttech, @samjb1234, @baconbrix, @davederiso, @steren, @neogoose_btw, @lucas__crespo, @_chenglou, @domenic, @birdabo, @0xmrtn, @_chenglou, @charliegreenman, @kho, @stevibe, and @_chenglou
Forums: Hacker News and Hacker News
| 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 … | 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 …
Bluesky: @togelius
| 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.
More: Seattle Business Journal, Reuters, Pulse 2.0, and SpaceNews
| Bloomberg: |
A study finds ~$143M in suspicious profits on Polymarket over two years, using patterns consistent with the use of nonpublic info, as prediction markets boom — Early last Monday, a burst of concentrated trades set off a week in which Wall Street and Washington were abuzz about the possibility …
More: NBC News, Futurism, Ars Technica, The Independent, and Reuters
| Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: |
London-based money transfer company Wise plans to launch UK bank accounts, joining an increasingly crowded market; Monzo reports 15M personal and business users — Wise Plc is rolling out everyday bank accounts in the UK as it seeks to take up more market share from longtime banks and other fintechs.| Anne Kauranen / Reuters: |
Finnish startup IQM Quantum Computers raised €50M from BlackRock to accelerate its global growth, ahead of a planned dual US and Helsinki IPO later in 2026 — IQM Quantum Computers has secured 50 million euros ($57.64 million) in venture financing from funds and accounts managed … | Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of over seven hours in China, its biggest outage since debut in 2025 and an unusual downtime for a globally used app — DeepSeek's chatbot suffered a major outage of more than seven hours overnight in China, forcing the AI pioneer to deploy several updates to rectify the issue.
More: Silicon Republic, Reuters, Livemint, The Independent, South China Morning Post, The Hans India, and Caixin Global
X: @bytebot and @teortaxestex
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