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Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, whose team worked separately from its core research team, as it 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_, @yuchenj_uw, @jon, @johnnyandai, @udiwertheimer, @cfryant, and @_simonsmith. LinkedIn: Dylan Jones. Bluesky: @maximillianquinn
Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| 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 …
More: The Liquid Frontier, Gizmodo, The Economic Times, The Next Web, Engadget, The AI Economy, The Verge, The Indian Express, and Ubergizmo
X: @mikebutcher, @attie_ai, @arcalinea, @durvidimel, @durvidimel, and @attie_ai. LinkedIn: Andres Castañeda
Bluesky: @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
| 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, @lucas__crespo, @valcoholics1, @riyvir, @_chenglou, @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, and @stevibe. Forums: Hacker News
| 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
More: Reuters, Sifted, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, CNBC, The Next Web, Silicon Canals, and Capacity. X: @mikebutcher
| 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: @kbandersen. Bluesky: @jfallows, @martinsfp, @rusty.todayintabs.com, @fiona-webster22, @thiagokrause, @mitpress, and @mbkplus. Threads: @imdavidpierce. Forums: r/ezraklein
| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
An interview with early Twitter executive Jason Goldman on the platform's early free-speech-maximalist decisions, underinvestment in trust and safety, and more — An early Twitter exec reckons with the monster he helped create. — What is Twitter's legacy?
Bluesky: @cwarzel, @cwarzel, and @goldman.blue
| 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| 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.| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Emails, texts, and NTSB reports show Waymo and an Austin school district struggled for months to train robotaxis to stop for school buses as required by law — The incidents in Austin raise questions about how self-driving cars “learn” and adapt to their surroundings.| Bloomberg: |
A look at Amazon's major push into rural US areas, including building 24-hour delivery distribution centers in recent years, encroaching on Walmart's territory — The turf war between the two retail giants is playing out in towns across the country. — When the blue Amazon box truck rolled … | Financial Times: |
Some UK defense tech startups consider relocating to the US due to the UK's military spending delays, as some executives say the UK sector is at a “standstill” — Slow progress on government contracts prompts some groups to consider moving abroad| Business Insider: |
Some iOS 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 The Mac Observer
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Forums: r/appledevelopers, r/iOSProgramming, and r/appledevelopers
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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