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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: Digital Trends, Silicon Canals, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and The Verge
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 Next Web, The Economic Times, Engadget, The AI Economy, The Verge, The Indian Express, and Ubergizmo
X: @mikebutcher, @attie_ai, @arcalinea, @durvidimel, @attie_ai, and @durvidimel. 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
| 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
| 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
| 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 … | 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: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Sifted, Silicon Republic, Tech.eu, CNBC, Blockonomi, Silicon Canals, Capacity, and The Next Web. X: @mikebutcher
| 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 … | 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.
More: The Overspill and Digital Trends
| 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, and Comic Book
Forums: Hacker News, r/TheBigPicture, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: Reuters, Livemint, The Hans India, The Independent, South China Morning Post, and Caixin Global
X: @bytebot and @teortaxestex
| 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
| 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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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