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OpenAI shuts down Sora video‑generation app after costly first months
OpenAI terminated its AI video‑generation service Sora just 103 days after launch, despite a $1 billion partnership with Disney. The app burned roughly $15 million a day while generating only $2.1 million in revenue, highlighting a stark cost‑revenue mismatch.
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By the numbers: Japan approves $4B subsidy to boost Rapidus AI chip ambitions
Simon Shaw argues that AI is redefining the economics of marketing through three interconnected forces—efficiency, excellence and effectiveness. AI automates content production, media buying and analytics, turning days‑long tasks into minutes and freeing capital. The real opportunity lies in redeploying those savings into higher‑order creative strategy rather than merely cutting costs. When efficiency fuels creative excellence, measurable effectiveness rises, linking AI‑driven insights to revenue, brand equity and long‑term value.
Ant Group's LingGuang is enabling a "Hand-Crafted AI Economy" – and it feels like a pivotal moment for how we build software: Users are already building and selling DIY tools (think productivity trackers, travel planners) on social marketplaces – no coding...
In a TechCentral TCS+ interview, Dr. Josefin Rosén argues that Africa’s tightly regulated AI environment can become a strategic advantage rather than a hurdle. She emphasizes governance‑by‑design, representative data, and bias mitigation as essential for trustworthy public‑facing AI. The discussion...
Intapp unveiled Celeste at Amplify 2026, an AI‑native, agentic platform built specifically for investment‑banking workflows such as relationship intelligence, deal sourcing, and execution. The platform’s Context Engine maps each firm’s unique terminology, deal history, and business logic into a semantic...
Bluechip Technologies announced the third edition of its Data & AI Summit, scheduled for June 10, 2026. The event builds on the previous edition, which attracted over 4,000 participants and featured nine specialized workshops. The 2026 summit expands the agenda...
In this episode, Sandhya Venkatachalam, co‑founder and general partner of Axiom Partners, explains how AI is shifting from a tool to a digital worker that can perform entire jobs, and how her venture firm is built around that insight. She...
Luma AI’s head of EMEA, Jason Day, says agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping marketing by turning the creative workflow into an end‑to‑end, real‑time system that can generate infinite, hyper‑personalized assets. The technology promises unprecedented speed, scale and cost efficiency, turning...
Campus libraries are evolving into neutral AI sandboxes where librarians guide responsible AI use, academic integrity, and workforce readiness. At Bryn Mawr College, librarian Lauren Dodd highlights the shift from traditional collection work to AI literacy, leveraging platforms like BoodleBox...
The essay charts how AI moved from a novelty to a classroom mainstay, splitting faculty into alarmist critics and eager adopters. It argues that many skeptics have never tried the tools, while self‑appointed innovators often overlook widespread student reliance on...
Analysts at Bank of America and S&P Global argue that accelerating AI and robotics adoption in China, South Korea and Japan can cushion the economic drag of rapidly ageing societies. These economies already boast robot densities far above the global...
Hyperlink InfoSystem, a custom software developer, is launching AI‑agent solutions that convert manual tasks into automated workflows. The company’s agents handle data processing, customer communication, monitoring, reporting and workflow management without constant human oversight. By integrating these agents with existing...
Finland‑based Behavix has entered a strategic partnership with U.S. panel operator Fair Response to integrate its AI‑powered passive behavioral data with Fair Response’s high‑quality survey responses. The combined platform will enable clients in market research, advertising and finance to link...
Uber and autonomous‑driving firm Motional have launched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas, deploying all‑electric Hyundai Ioniq 5 vehicles that can be summoned through the Uber app at no additional charge. The service is initially available at several designated zones...
“In 2026, AI is driving a 10x increase in the productivity of the individuals who know how to leverage it. But that’s not enough. We’ve swapped the motor; we have not yet redesigned the factory. Because of a simple fact: productive...
Generative AI has moved from experimental labs into the mainstream of video‑game production, and the conversation gained fresh momentum when Kingdom Come Deliverance 2’s director Daniel Vávra took to X to champion the technology. Vávra argued that AI‑driven tools could let...
Researchers from Texas A&M and nearly 1,000 global experts created Humanity’s Last Exam, a 2,500‑question benchmark designed to be unsolvable by current AI models. The test spans mathematics, humanities, natural sciences, ancient languages and other specialist domains, with any question...
Honest take: This is the most dangerous kind of AI product. Not because it's bad. Because it's good enough to make entire hiring decisions feel unnecessary. Junior gives you an AI employee with a real email, reads your Slack history, attends your...
Researchers evaluated three leading AI coding agents—Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Google Gemini—by tasking them with building two real‑world applications from scratch. Across 30 pull requests and 38 security scans, 143 vulnerabilities were found, with 87 % of PRs containing at...
Defra and Innovate UK awarded £560,000 to seven UK businesses to develop space‑based and AI solutions for agriculture. Each company receives £80,000 in Space Commercialisation Credits plus business and technical assistance from the Satellite Applications Catapult. Projects include digital farm...
HOG: The Algorithm That Powered Early Human Detection In 2005, before deep learning dominated computer vision, researchers introduced Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) - a powerful technique for detecting people in images. Instead of analyzing raw pixels, HOG focused on edges...
The frontier AI use-cases probably use 100X or so more tokens than the frontier use-cases did a year ago. We’re already seeing the explosion of coding agents that do vastly more complex and longer running projects, which is already using...
Legalweek 2026 highlighted a pivotal shift in legal AI from simple yes‑or‑no outputs toward nuanced, context‑aware reasoning. Panels and keynotes emphasized that firms are demanding tools that can interpret complex statutes, weigh competing interests, and provide risk‑adjusted recommendations. Vendors showcased...
More AI infrastructure innovations abound as @nvidia and @Samsung plan co-development of ferroelectric NAND. ______________ Ferroelectric NAND (#FeNAND) is an emerging 3D non-volatile memory technology using ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) with hafnia-based materials to replace conventional charge-trap NAND, offering faster speeds,...
𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁’𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗘𝗢 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗮 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜. He recently said something that made me pause. 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 if it ever combines four capabilities at the same time: → 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 → 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀 → 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴...
Robots are evolving into fully autonomous systems that require on‑device AI processing rather than cloud reliance. Edge computing platforms place the computational "brain" directly on the robot, cutting latency to fractions of a second. Traditional rack‑mounted servers cannot meet the...
Sage, the London‑listed accounting software provider, unveiled Sage AI in Johannesburg, embedding artificial intelligence across its finance, payroll and HR products for small businesses in Africa and the Middle East. The platform relies on roughly 40,000 domain‑specific models and claims...
The International Labour Organisation warns that generative AI will disproportionately affect women’s jobs, citing occupational segregation, under‑representation in STEM, and embedded gender bias as key drivers. Women are exposed to GenAI in 88% of countries, and female‑dominated occupations are almost...
The latest 60 Minutes episode examines two stark developments: AI‑controlled drones that can hunt and kill without human input, and a high‑profile media showdown involving former security firm owner Micky Ahuja, who faces accusations of worker exploitation and sexual predation. The...
In this episode, host Ryan Donovan chats with Jan Lipart, CEO and co‑founder of OpenMind, about their open‑source robotics platform OM1 that lets humanoid robots communicate internally via natural language and be governed by immutable, blockchain‑stored rules like Asimov's laws....
India has risen to the top three global markets for generative AI, trailing only the United States and Germany, according to Omdia’s survey of 2,050 senior technology leaders. The study finds 71 % of Indian firms report measurable ROI, ten points...
There are often posts mentioning that I donated a very large amount of funds to @FLI_org years ago and connecting me to various policy actions that they take. I thought I would make clear the record both on the nature...
Schools are really facing an existential crisis unlike anything they’ve ever experienced. AI renders the way they teach completely pointless. Every job will require AI familiarity, so blacklisting it is foolish. AI also makes memorized knowledge pointless. Memorizing history to...
The author spent a day at Anthropic’s San Francisco office meeting product leaders to assess the direction of its enterprise platform and Claude AI model. The visit coincided with a cascade of setbacks, including a Pentagon dispute that led to...
New episode of Uncapped with Max Junestrand from Legora and my partner Chetan Puttagunta . Every time I'm with Max I come away thinking "this is what it takes to build an AI native software company." He's one of my...
The market is comparing Adobe's AI to image generators in LLMs like ChatGPT. That is the wrong comparison entirely. Adobe just reported record Q1 FY2026 results = $6.40 billion in revenue, 13% subscription growth, and AI-first ARR more than tripling year...
LinkedIn is rolling out an AI‑powered ranking system, called Generative Recommenders, to personalize users’ Feed based on profile data and engagement behavior. The platform also announced stricter enforcement against automated comment tools and other inauthentic activity. Additionally, LinkedIn will limit...
The orthogonality thesis is false. It's also too trivial to be given such a pretentious name.
In US, UK, Germany and Australia, around 70% of firms actively use AI, particularly younger, more productive firms. Firms report little impact of AI over the last three years, with over 80% of firms reporting no impact on either employment...
This is really cool. Spatial intelligence is a skill that helps AI understand space and what is happening around it. It helps the AI know where the user is, what they are doing, and when it is the right time to...
The Green Grid’s Neural Network: Andrew Forrest’s Visionary Blueprint for an Intelligent Industrial Future - The landscape of the Pilbara is changing, not just the rust-red dust or the gargantuan scale of the iron ore pits that define the horizon...
AI energy management system to unlock VPP potential #energysky -- via pv magazine global: https://t.co/nZyuczQc8J
5 ‘heavy lifts’ of deploying AI agents | MIT Sloan 1) Creating robust data pipelines 2) Rigorous model validation 3) Ensuring economic value 4) Managing prompt and model drift 5) Comprehensive governance https://t.co/kA9iinLKHH https://t.co/pPduuPNnM9
People that talk at 10 tokens/s = very smart LLMs that output at 50 tokens/s = annoying and slow 🤷♂️
Would you welcome a robot assistant into your home — or a loved one’s? 🤖 🧺 via @XueJia24682 #AI #robotics https://t.co/mWe9BpQBnN
Pretty much every AI research lab sees this coming and is trying to get to AGI before this hits
It's really something. My favorite new AI feature in some time. I used to deliberately prompt ChatGPT to make informative graphics in answers. Claude's are better, faster, and just happen when the answer warrants one.
Meta reportedly delays the launch of its new AI model because...it’s just not that good https://t.co/I2lcsWkMrw https://t.co/xQfoTa6asz
Life-changing Claude Desktop keyboard shortcuts: 1. Voice chat with Claude from anywhere (tap Caps Lock) 2. Pull up Claude chat from anywhere (tap Option twice) https://t.co/vAOAWbSFG7
AI accelerationists need a better pitch than "Don't worry, you'll be able to go on welfare"
Are Humanoid Robots Ready To Work With Humans Or Replace Them? https://t.co/9plTIyOEVA #humanoidtech #humanoid #robot #Robotics #AI #TechRevolution #TechInnovation #ArtificialInteligence #PhysicalAI
