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10 April 2026 Vol 19

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OpenAI Says Goodbye to Sora Months After Launching App

OpenAI has quietly pulled the plug on Sora, announcing the shutdown on social media this morning with a brief thank…

Arm just changed the rules, building its first-ever CPU and betting big on agentic AI

For the past three years, every data center conversation has started and ended with GPUs. Training clusters and inference racks…

The biggest ways Dune Part 3 differs from the book — for better and worse

The trailer for Dune: Part Three, director Denis Villeneuve’s epic climax to his sci-fi movie trilogy, has dropped, and the…

A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility…

The Bumpboxx BB-777 is the ultimate in boombox nostalgia

Bumpboxx is fully embracing nostalgia with its latest boombox, the BB-777, which is modeled very closely on the legendary Sharp…

Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content

Instagram and Facebook content will soon have shopping links baked into posts, essentially cutting out third-party “link in bio”-style tools.…

Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots

Amazon has confirmed that it has acquired Fauna Robotics, a two-year-old startup founded by former Meta and Google engineers who…

New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching

A jury in Santa Fe on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties after finding the company…

Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally

As the world electrifies, the oil and gas industry is counting on plastics to drive profits in the future. But…

Accel, Prosus pick six ‘off-the-map’ startups for inaugural India cohort

Accel and Prosus have selected six startups for their first joint cohort in India, backing what they describe as “off-the-map”…