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24 Mar 2026

OpenAI shuts down Sora video app after six months, ending Disney's $1 billion investment deal

OpenAI announced it will discontinue Sora, its AI video generator app, just six months after launch. The shutdown also terminates a planned $1 billion investment and content licensing deal with Disney that would have allowed users to create videos featuring 200+ Disney characters. The move signals OpenAI's strategic shift toward robotics and workplace productivity tools as it prepares for an IPO.

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OpenAI releases open source tools to help developers build safer AI apps for teens

OpenAI unveiled a set of open-source safety prompts designed to help AI developers protect underage users from harmful content. The tools, developed with Common Sense Media and everyone.ai, target risks like self-harm, graphic violence, and inappropriate role-play. The release comes as OpenAI faces multiple lawsuits related to teen safety, including cases where ChatGPT allegedly contributed to user deaths.

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Apple plans major Siri AI overhaul with standalone app and new interface arriving in iOS 27

Apple is testing a standalone Siri app alongside a new 'Ask Siri' button as part of a major AI overhaul expected at WWDC on June 8. The redesigned voice assistant will feature a chat-like interface, deeper app integration, and conversational capabilities to compete with ChatGPT and Google Gemini, marking one of the biggest changes since Siri's launch over a decade ago.

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OpenAI secures $10 billion in funding, pushing total raise to $120 billion at $850 billion valuation

OpenAI is finalizing a $10 billion in funding from venture investors including MGX, Coatue Management, Thrive Capital, and Microsoft, bringing its historic funding round to $120 billion. The significant capital infusion values the ChatGPT maker at $850 billion, marking the largest funding round in the company's history as it races to secure computing power and talent for AI development.

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Baltimore sues Elon Musk's xAI over Grok deepfakes as legal pressure intensifies

Baltimore filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok chatbot violated consumer protection laws by generating nonconsensual sexualized images, including of children. The city claims xAI deceptively marketed Grok as safe while the AI chatbot generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including more than 23,000 of minors.

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Microsoft and Nvidia Launch AI Tools to Speed Up Nuclear Power Plant Permitting and Construction

Microsoft and Nvidia have announced a collaboration to accelerate nuclear reactor deployment using AI and digital twin technology. The partnership targets lengthy permitting processes and construction delays that typically plague nuclear power plants. Aalo Atomics has already reduced its permitting workload by 92% using these tools, saving an estimated $80 million annually.

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Apple releases iOS 26.4 with AI-powered Playlist Playground and new emoji for iPhone users

Apple has launched iOS 26.4 featuring Playlist Playground, an AI-powered playlist generator for Apple Music that creates song collections from text prompts. The update also brings eight new emoji including Bigfoot and orca, ambient music widgets for quick access to curated sounds, and bug fixes addressing keyboard accuracy and Liquid Glass animation issues.

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Deepfake X-rays fool radiologists 75% of the time, raising concerns about medical fraud

A new study reveals that radiologists correctly identify AI-generated X-rays only 75% of the time, even when aware synthetic images are present. The research involved 17 radiologists from six countries and tested both ChatGPT and RoentGen-generated scans. Experts warn of serious implications for fraudulent litigation, hospital cybersecurity, and research integrity as synthetic medical imaging becomes indistinguishable from reality.

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HP unveils AI PCs and workstations built for local AI workloads and hybrid work

HP announced a refreshed EliteBook lineup and new AI workstations at HP Imagine 2026 in New York. The devices feature Snapdragon X2 processors with up to 85 TOPS of NPU performance for on-device AI tasks. The company is betting big on local AI processing, enterprise security, and seamless device connectivity to support modern hybrid work environments.

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Popular Python library LiteLLM hit by supply chain attack that steals cloud credentials

LiteLLM, a widely-used open-source Python interface for accessing multiple large language models, was compromised in a sophisticated supply chain attack. Two malicious versions deployed credential-stealing malware that harvests SSH keys, cloud tokens, and crypto wallets. The breach originated from a Trivy vulnerability scanner compromise and affects hundreds of thousands of potential installations.

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Snapchat launches AI Clips to turn photos into five-second videos through Lens Studio

Snapchat introduced AI Clips, a new feature in Lens Studio that transforms single photos into five-second videos. Available to Lens+ subscribers for $8.99 per month, the closed-prompt system lets creators design AI-powered Lenses while users generate personalized videos. Developers can monetize through Lens+ Payouts as the platform competes with YouTube's Reimagine feature.

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Agile Robots partners with Google DeepMind to advance AI robotics in industrial automation

Munich-based Agile Robots has entered a strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics foundation models into its robotic systems. With over 20,000 robots already deployed globally, the collaboration will focus on autonomous production systems across electronics manufacturing, automotive, data centers, and logistics sectors.

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Arm launches its first in-house chip after 35 years, targeting AI data center market with Meta

Arm Holdings is making its own chips for the first time in its 35-year history, unveiling the AGI CPU designed for AI workloads in data centers. Meta is the first customer for the 136-core processor, which Arm says will deliver superior performance per watt compared to traditional x86 platforms. The move shifts Arm from pure IP licensing to direct silicon sales.

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OpenAI Foundation commits $1 billion to tackle AI risks as Altman warns of societal threats

The OpenAI Foundation announced plans to invest $1 billion in 2026 across AI safety, healthcare research, and economic impact programs. CEO Sam Altman issued a stark warning that AI will introduce new societal threats no single company can handle alone, while the nonprofit arm of OpenAI named key leaders including co-founder Wojciech Zaremba to oversee AI resilience efforts.

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Ai2 releases open-source web agent MolmoWeb to challenge OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic

The Allen Institute for AI unveiled MolmoWeb, an open-source web agent built on the Molmo 2 multimodal model that navigates browsers using screenshots rather than code. Available in 4B and 8B parameter versions, the 8B model outperformed GPT-4o on key web navigation tasks, offering developers and researchers a community-driven alternative to closed systems from major tech companies.

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