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March 30, 2026, 8:10 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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.
More: MacRumors
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.

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