Daily Tech News 25 March 2026

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OpenAI has shuttered its Sora AI-generated video app just six months after it first launched. (Hollywood Reporter)

Disney was planning to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license some of its IP to be used in Sora. That deal is as dead as the app itself.
OpenAI's "Instant Checkout" feature that allowed used to purchase products from within a chat session has likewise been deprioritised. (Tech Crunch)

K-i-l-l-e-d, deprioritised.

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Arm has announced its first AGI CPU, dubbed reasonably enough the Arm AGI CPU. (Arm)

It has 136 Arm Neoverse N3 cores running at 3.7GHz, 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6 - yes, 6, and support for DDR5-8800 memory, which is pretty fast for a server.

That's all nice, but you might be wondering where the AGI comes into it.

That's the neat part. It doesn't.
The FCC has banned imports of new routers made in other countries, which is where imports come from. (Liliputing)

This follows an unending series of massive exploits of consumer networking equipment in recent years.

Companies can apply to a conditional approval program to continue to sell products to the United States, but that comes with certain caveats, like upgrading device security to be "not total shit".

Security experts that are usually critical of government inaction in this area appear stunlocked at seeing all their recommendations enacted in one fell swoop.
Telling an AI that it is an expert programmer makes it worse. (The Register)

To nobody's surprise.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Beep boop.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 25, 2026 04:02 AM (sAmhv)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:03 AM (+YA9H)

3 Pixy, maybe ace could be given a cool hash like you have? He was all over the threads yesterday--yay!--as this:

Posted by: Woke Ace (Soon to be a guest on Tucker Carlson) ... (1wjle)

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:09 AM (+YA9H)

4 ha ha and this:

Posted by: Acewayne Assante ... (1wjle)

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:11 AM (+YA9H)

5 Girls Generation. Korean?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 25, 2026 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

6 The site should be modified so ace can only post as Lamont with the hash (bGdmY).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2026 04:13 AM (yjflf)

7 And my current hash basically reads like a furry saying yiff with a ballgag in his mouth. Unappreciated, bruv.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2026 04:15 AM (yjflf)

8 I noticed that and wondered if it was a bad thing.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 25, 2026 04:29 AM (Q/FnY)

9
Magills
@magills_
15h
Frankly speaking I don’t think we should allow the monarch of a Muslim country the honor of addressing Congress

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
17h
JUST IN - King Charles will deliver a speech to the U.S. Congress the week of April 27 as he visits the U.S. — Politico

The comments are harsh (about his delivering a speech before Congress).

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:30 AM (+YA9H)

10 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

11 hahahahahaha

Wick
@WickSBG
10h
Replying to @magills_
What happened to “no kings” 😂

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:32 AM (+YA9H)

12 10 G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

Unless you say that while snugly fitted into a 'roo's pouch, it's cultural appropriation!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2026 04:33 AM (yjflf)

13 Yhat video was interesting

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

14 I am impressed by the social responsibility of that Girls' Generation video, taking aspirational consumption into account. Too many creators either forget or don't care that kids and teenagers are always looking up to older ones, consuming media up in age from themselves. For example, my understanding is that the primary market for "Young Adult" novels is adolescents, or maybe even tweens. And so it is with this video, where the performers themselves look to be young adults, but their target audience is not there yet. Somewhere in the process, a creative director cared about the health of his society and culture.

Posted by: SciVo at March 25, 2026 04:42 AM (Sy6m/)

15 13 Yhat video was interesting
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

That made me watch it.
It's cute! "Change Room" was off a bit; or prescient.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:46 AM (+YA9H)

16 And they weren't on their cellphones--I don't think I saw a single cellphone. Which is refreshing.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:48 AM (+YA9H)

17 Open AI is a company with a product that can only make so much money chatting up bored people or writing their essays or legal briefs for them. That subscription fee only goes so far, and currently it's not as profitable as it needs to be.

Every other thing they're trying to sell can be done just as well, or better, by other AI/AI Agents, many of them for free or just the cost of the equipment and time.

Since Open AI is currently the king of the AI field many of their competitors are trying to follow their lead as they can't figure out how to make enough profit to pay for their data centers and dividends to their shareholders either.

It seems this might be the beginning of the AI bubble deflating (at least somewhat), as most of these Big AI corps can't get a handle on how to build-out while making enough money to keep everything inflating.

They've also driven up technology prices so high it's costing them more and more to do anything just like everybody else trying to get their hands on memory/storage chips of any kind. Energy prices are going the same route.

Something has to give and the bankruptcy or AI exit strategy for some of these big corps is on the horizon.

(I hope.)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2026 04:50 AM (6ydKt)

18 16 And they weren't on their cellphones--I don't think I saw a single cellphone. Which is refreshing.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:48 AM (+YA9H)

Looked it up.

They released this song in 2009, so yeah, smart phones weren't quite a thing yet, but it only took a few years later before they were everywhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2026 04:55 AM (6ydKt)

19 Belated BOING!

Car cleaned.

Some shopping done.

Two ballistic missiles intercepted.

There's only so much one can do to be here on time.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 25, 2026 05:04 AM (1o8D5)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2026 05:13 AM (tljrc)

21 Hot little asian broads gets my blood pumping. It's even better when I can't understand a word they're saying.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 05:20 AM (Wnd0C)

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