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Mar 24, 2026 Breaking

OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video Platform

OpenAI officially discontinues Sora, the viral AI video generation platform launched last year. The shutdown ends the $1 billion Disney partnership and marks a strategic pivot away from consumer video generation. Users can no longer generate videos via ChatGPT or the standalone Sora app.

Disney Deal Cancelled $1B Partnership Ended Strategic Pivot
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Mar 10, 2026 Alibaba

Qwen 3.5 Max Debuts at #1 on LMArena

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Max-Preview launched with a stunning 1464 Elo rating on LMArena, beating GPT-5.4 and Grok-4.1. The model outperformed all major domestic competitors including Doubao 2.0, GLM-5, and Kimi 2.5. Full release expected soon with further improvements.

#1 LMArena Ranking 1464 Elo Score Beats GPT-5.4
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Latest Releases

Mar 26, 2026 AI News

The least surprising chapter of the Manus story is what’s happening right now

Did anyone think there would not be a reckoning over this tie-up?

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Mar 26, 2026 AI News

Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India

Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.

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Mar 25, 2026 Anthropic

The AI skills gap is here, says AI company, and power users are pulling ahead

Anthropic finds AI isn’t replacing jobs yet, but early data shows growing inequality as experienced users gain an edge, ...

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Mar 25, 2026 Google

Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods....

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Mar 24, 2026 AI News

Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate

Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF's new leader plans to build on that. ...

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Mar 18, 2026 xAI

Musk’s tactic of blaming users for Grok sex images may be foiled by EU law

Planned EU ban on nudify apps would likely force Musk to make Grok less "spicy." ...

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Jan 22, 2026 OpenAI

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructur

<p><a href="https://railway.com/">Railway</a>, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million...

New ReleaseBenchmarkFunding
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Jan 19, 2026 OpenAI

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

<p>The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it&#x27;s expensive.</p><p><a href="https://claude....

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Industry Updates

Mar 24, 2026 Business

Disney Ends $1B OpenAI Partnership

Following Sora shutdown, Disney terminates its groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI that included licensing 200+ characters. The three-year deal would have allowed Sora to generate videos featuring Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars characters.

Deal Cancelled 200+ Characters Strategic Shift
Mar 2026 Market

Chinese AI Hits 30% Global Download Share

Chinese open-source AI models now account for 30% of all global AI downloads, surpassing US at 15.7%. DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM models driving adoption. Five Chinese companies now in LMArena global top 10, with Alibaba ranking #1 in China.

30% Global Share 5 in Top 10 Open Source Leader
Mar 9, 2026 Acquisition

OpenAI Acquires Promptfoo for AI Security

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo, an open-source platform for systematic AI safety testing. The platform will be integrated into OpenAI's Frontier enterprise agent platform for automated security testing. Promptfoo will remain open source.

Security Focus Enterprise Agents Open Source Stays
Mar 16, 2026 Conference

NVIDIA GTC 2026: AI Infrastructure Focus

NVIDIA's GTC keynote unveiled NemoClaw for running OpenClaw agents, announced Cerebras CS-3 systems coming to AWS Bedrock, and showcased the latest in AI factories and physical AI. Major focus on agentic AI infrastructure.

NemoClaw Cerebras on AWS Agentic AI