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OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Six Months After Launch as Disney's $1 Billion Deal Collapses
OpenAI killed its viral AI video app with no warning, blindsiding Disney's team thirty minutes after a joint project meeting ended - dissolving a landmark $1 billion licensing deal that never closed, as the company cuts compute costs ahead of a potential IPO. Read more
Sanders and AOC Introduce Bill to Freeze All New AI Data Center Construction Until Federal Safeguards Are in Place
The Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act would halt every new data center project nationwide until Congress passes federal protections for workers, consumers, and the environment - putting progressive lawmakers on direct collision course with the Trump administration's pro-growth AI infrastructure agenda. Read more
Arm Launches Its First In-House AI Chip, Sends Shares Up 18% - But Analysts Warn the Hard Part Is Still Ahead
After three decades of licensing chip designs, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU at its San Francisco event with Meta, OpenAI, and Cloudflare as lead customers - but Bank of America says the $15 billion revenue target by 2031 looks too optimistic in an increasingly crowded market. Read more
Legal AI Startup Harvey Raises $200 Million at $11 Billion Valuation, Proving Vertical AI Can Win Against OpenAI and Anthropic
Harvey hit $190 million in ARR by January, its fourth funding round in fourteen months, and is now deploying AI agents that handle legal workflows from start to finish - while Sequoia compares its trajectory to Salesforce's early dominance of cloud software. Read more
AI Meeting App Granola Raises $125 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation After 6x Jump in Under a Year
The London startup that built its following by keeping bots out of meetings just secured a Series C led by Index Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, and is now pivoting from notetaker to enterprise AI platform before Microsoft and Google close the gap. Read more
📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
When OpenAI kills Sora to preserve compute for its IPO while Sanders and AOC push to freeze every new data center until Congress catches up, Arm abandons thirty years of licensing strategy to build its own AI chips, Harvey reaches $11 billion by going deep on one industry rather than competing with foundation models, and Granola hits $1.5 billion by keeping bots out of boardrooms - the same week tells two completely different stories about where AI value actually lives. The infrastructure fight is getting louder and more political. But the quiet compounders - vertical AI companies with real revenue, real workflows, and customers who cannot easily leave - are building something that will outlast the noise.
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