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OpenAI Kills Sora — Disney’s $1 Billion Deal Goes Up in Smoke
OpenAI announced it’s shutting down Sora, its AI video generation tool launched in late 2024. The company gave no official reason for the decision.
The fallout was immediate. Disney, which had been negotiating a $1 billion licensing deal to integrate Sora into Disney+, pulled out entirely. Reports from Variety and Ars Technica suggest Disney was blindsided — no money had changed hands yet. The AI video generation space just lost its biggest name.
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Meta Cuts Hundreds of Jobs While Pouring $135 Billion Into AI
Meta is laying off several hundred employees across sales, recruitment, and Reality Labs as the company doubles down on artificial intelligence. The cuts come as Meta expects capital expenditures to hit a record $115–$135 billion this year — nearly all of it AI infrastructure.
Top executives, meanwhile, are getting pay bumps via stock options. The message is clear: AI is the priority, everything else is negotiable. TechCrunch has the full breakdown.
Claude AI Goes Down Hard — 5,300+ Error Reports
Anthropic’s Claude chatbot suffered a major global outage on March 25, with error reports surging past 5,300 on Downdetector. Users couldn’t access chats or get responses for hours.
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Anthropic eventually identified the issue and began rolling out a fix, but the service remained in partial outage status well into the evening. It’s a reminder that even the best AI services aren’t immune to growing pains as demand scales.
Tech Layoffs Hit 59,000+ in 2026 — CFOs Say It’s Just Getting Started
The AI-driven job displacement wave isn’t slowing down. Over 59,000 tech workers have been laid off in 2026 so far, with Amazon, Meta, Block, and Atlassian among the biggest cutters. A Fortune report reveals CFOs privately admit AI layoffs will be 9x higher this year than public forecasts suggest — potentially 500,000+ roles across the broader economy.
The pattern is consistent: invest in AI tools, audit which roles can be automated, then announce “restructuring.” Atlassian’s 1,600-person cut on March 11 has become the template.
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Arm Unveils New AI Chip, Projects Billions in Added Revenue
Chip designer Arm revealed a new AI-focused processor architecture this week, projecting it will add billions in annual revenue. As every major cloud and device maker races to deploy AI at the edge, Arm is positioning itself as the default silicon backbone.
The announcement puts more pressure on Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware and signals that the chip wars are far from settled.
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