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OpenAI Killed Sora. It Was Burning $1M a Day and Disney Found Out an Hour Before the Public.
OpenAI's AI video generator lasted six months before Sam Altman pulled the plug. Internal reporting reveals Sora was costing $1 million daily in compute, user counts had collapsed below 500,000, and Disney — which had committed $1 billion to the partnership — learned of the shutdown less than an hour before the announcement.
Qodo Raises $70M to Build the Governance Layer for AI-Generated Code
Qodo closed a $70M Series B to scale AI agents that review, test, and govern code produced by tools like Claude Code and Cursor. Total funding now $120M, with backing from OpenAI and Meta angels.
Rebellions Raises $400M at $2.3B Valuation in Pre-IPO Bid to Challenge Nvidia on AI Inference
Rebellions, a fabless AI chip startup focused on inference-optimized silicon, closed a $400M pre-IPO round pushing its total funding to ~$850M. An IPO is planned for later in 2026.
Anthropic: Claude's Paid Subscriptions Have More Than Doubled in 2026
Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch on March 28 that Claude's paid subscriber base has more than doubled this year, with daily signups reaching over 1 million — driven by Claude Code, Super Bowl ads, and growing enterprise demand.
Naver's Seoul World Model Generates Video of Real City Streets Without Hallucinating Them
Researchers at NAVER AI Lab and KAIST published the Seoul World Model, the first AI video generation system grounded in actual city geometry — trained on 1.2 million real street-view images from Seoul, outperforming six existing video world models on spatial accuracy.
OpenAI Kills Sora: $15M/Day Costs, $2.1M in Revenue, and a Collapsed Disney Deal
OpenAI announced on March 24 it is shutting down Sora, its AI video generation app, after the product burned through an estimated $15 million per day while generating just $2.1 million in total lifetime revenue. Disney simultaneously cancelled a planned $1 billion investment.
xAI's Final Cofounder Is Gone. All 11 Have Now Left Elon Musk's AI Company
Ross Nordeen and Manuel Kroiss, the last two of xAI's original eleven cofounders, departed in mid-March 2026, completing a full exodus that leaves Elon Musk rebuilding the company from scratch while Grok continues to lag competitors in coding benchmarks.
Anthropic Accidentally Leaks 'Claude Mythos' — Its Most Powerful and Dangerous Model Yet
A CMS security blunder exposed nearly 3,000 unpublished Anthropic assets on March 27, including internal documents describing Claude Mythos — a model the company says poses unprecedented cybersecurity risks.
Anthropic Eyes October IPO as Banks Circle a $350B AI Listing
Bloomberg reports Anthropic is in early talks with Wall Street banks about an IPO as soon as October 2026. The company is valued at $350 billion after closing a $20B+ round in February.
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