There are bigger fish to fry, more important products to build than a petty fight with the liberal arts world that has scoffed at tech barons, branded them as billionaire oligarchs who hate to pay their fair share of taxes, are greedy, want to hijack the government, and are everything wrong with the world today.
In the early days, just a few years ago, when AI still seemed like an exciting new toy, making products that would render creatives obsolete seemed like a noble course for the Silicon Valley set. AI should write better, make better art, better music, better videos. It was in the milieu that OpenAI rolled out Sora AI, an ambitious video generator model that will be the Disney of the future.
But as competitors flood the space and investors dump billions into the industry, the time to tighten seat belts and pursue more productive, useful ambitions has come.
The solution that investors hope AI would solve is less “How can I use AI to make more videos?” and more, “How can I use AI to provide an excellent audit of years of company spending, give accurate health advice, find the cure for cancer, and start a new civilisation on Mars?"
This week OpenAI got the memo. The company said it would shut down Sora and focus on other areas “that will help people solve real-world, physical tasks,” with Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, telling employees that the company “cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests.”
But video-generating models have not all come to an end. Our newsletter feature story this week dives into why OpenAI decided to shut down Sora and offered alternative models you can try.
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🤖 AI and productivity
Have we achieved AGI, the smarter AI models that can function without human aid? NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang sent the world spinning after he said in a new interview that we might have. But not in the way many expect. We offered context to what he was talking about when he said AGI is here.
🌍 Device Watch
Apple has rolled out dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference this year. The event will take place from June 8 to 12, 2026. Many speculations suggest a lot of announcements will be about AI in the Apple ecosystem. We have the details of what to expect in this article below.
You might have heard rumors of OnePlus exiting the international stage, after OnePlus India CEO Robin Liu exited the company. Well, it is not, at least not anytime soon. The company has quickly shut down the rumors that it could be winding down its international operation.
Also this week, Google announced that it would expand Android Automotive OS from handling just infotainment to more functions that impact the in-car experience. The company said in a blog post that modern cars are “computers on wheels.”
🎮 Gaming & Entertainment
- EA to Shut Down Servers and Delist Battlefield Hardline on Xbox and PlayStation
- Peni Parker Joins MARVEL TĹŤkon: Fighting Souls as New Team Emerges
- Crimson Desert Patch 1.00.03 Brings Big Fixes as Sales Pass 2 Million Worldwide
- Epic Games to Lay Off Over 1,000 Workers Amid Fortnite Engagement Decline
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This month, we explored the massive surge in AI infrastructure spending which is diverting high-performance memory (RAM) toward data centers, causing a global shortage and rising costs. Find out what this means for device manufacturers and more importantly, for you as a consumer.
🪙 Crypto & Global Finance
We are in a new phase of global crypto adoption. Leaders in the industry have gone from getting the banking industry to take them seriously to banks investing in their companies. Now a new campaign is pushing for crypto options to be integrated into every banking app for every user. What does this look like, and would it scale?
This week, we dived into the campaign, offering why the top dogs in crypto have coalesced on this new campaign.
