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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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| 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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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
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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 … | 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.
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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.
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| 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?| 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.| 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| 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 … | 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
| 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 …
More: New York Times, Financial Times, Fox News, Implicator.ai, and Yahoo Finance. Forums: r/politics
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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
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An analysis of four large private-credit funds finds an average of ~25% software share exposure, above the ~19% disclosed, amid investor concerns on SaaS stocks — Analysis by the Journal finds four of the largest private-credit funds have more exposure to the software industry than their filings suggest
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