OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora the Disney Deal It Was Built Around Is Dead Too

OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora & the Disney Deal With It

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 25, 2026

Key Highlights – OpenAI launched Sora in September 2025 with the kind of energy that looked, briefly, like it could reshape short-form video. It hit one million downloads in under five days, faster than ChatGPT’s own early trajectory, and sat at the top of the App Store within a week. On Tuesday, the company confirmed it is shutting the whole thing down. The official explanation is brief. OpenAI said compute demand is growing and the company is focusing its resources elsewhere. The Sora research team will continue work on “world simulation research to advance robotics.” That framing tells you where […]

Claude Can Now Control Your Mac & Here’s How It Actually Works

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 24, 2026

Key Highlights – Anthropic has given Claude the ability to control a Mac. As of March 23, Pro and Max subscribers can grant Claude permission to move the cursor, click, type, open applications, browse the web, and interact with desktop software — all within a sandboxed environment inside Cowork and Claude Code. The feature is a research preview, and Anthropic has been upfront that it is not yet a finished product. What is worth paying attention to is not just that Anthropic built this, but how they chose to build it. The Integration-First Architecture Most computer-use implementations treat screen control […]

Anthropic Is Building a Project Layer for Claude Cowork

Anthropic Is Adding Projects and Folders to Claude Cowork

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 20, 2026

Key Highlights – Anthropic is not done building out Cowork. Pre-release UI spotted by TestingCatalog shows a project creation flow in development for Claude Cowork on Desktop, one that would turn the tool from a session-based agent into a persistent, organised workspace. The difference might matter more than it sounds. The addition spotted by TestingCatalog shows a project creation flow within Cowork on Desktop. Users would be able to attach an existing local folder or create a new one during setup, tying files, instructions, and ongoing work to a defined project rather than starting fresh each time. What the Project […]

Gamma Imagine launches to expand AI design beyond presentations

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 18, 2026

Today, Gamma announced Gamma Imagine, which is a new AI-powered design tool that allows you to create standalone visual assets. In case you are unaware, Gamma is a platform that allows users to create websites and presentations with the help of AI. At a time when teams are expected to produce more branded content across multiple channels, Gamma appears to be positioning “Imagine” as an all-in-one AI design solution. The company says Gamma Imagine is built to work like a human designer. It can automatically apply brand identity while allowing users to improve outputs using natural language prompts. Gamma Imagine […]

The U.S. President accuses Iran of using AI to spread fake war narratives

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 16, 2026

The ongoing war between Israel, the US, and Iran continues to fuel political tension. Alongside it, media is under massive scrutiny. As the headlines around the war have become the major talk of the hour, the information battle surrounding the conflict is becoming just as intense. At a time when artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing how information spreads online, concerns about manipulated media and propaganda are also growing. That debate just took a new turn on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran of using AI to spread misleading narratives about the war. Trump accuses Iran of weaponizing AI […]

Meta’s Avocado AI Model Delayed & Now Might License Google’s Gemini

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 13, 2026

Key Highlights – Meta had positioned the first quarter of 2026 as its moment to reassert itself in the AI race. That moment has now been pushed back by at least two months, and the circumstances around the delay reveal that the company is under considerably more strain than its public communications have suggested. The New York Times, citing three people with knowledge of the matter, reported Thursday that Avocado, Meta’s next-generation text AI model developed inside the newly formed TBD Lab, will not launch until May at the earliest. A Meta spokesperson offered a measured response: the next model […]

Anthropic Seeks Court Stay on Pentagon’s “Supply-Chain Risk” Label

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 12, 2026

The past few weeks have been tough for Anthropic. The California-based AI company and OpenAI rival Anthropic is now in a legal dispute with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The reason? Well, Anthropic has denied the Pentagon’s demand for unrestricted access to its AI models in military settings. In the negotiations table, the AI company had been seeking assurances from the Pentagon that its AI systems would not be used for certain activities, including mass surveillance of Americans or the deployment of autonomous weapons. After the company refused, the Pentagon handed the DoD deal to OpenAI and labeled Anthropic […]

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Google Maps just got updated with Gemini-powered “Ask Maps” & “Immersive Navigation” feature

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 12, 2026

Google is gradually making Gemini-powered features available in its core apps. Today, the company has announced that it is rolling out a major Gemini-powered feature in Google Maps to change how people search for places and navigate roads. The two major features discussed by Google in its blog announcement are “Ask Maps” and “Immersive Navigation.” The company describes it as the biggest navigation overhaul in more than a decade. According to Google, these new features are designed to transform Maps beyond traditional search tools. As of now, we manually look for locations or places within Google Maps. Well, that’s completely […]

Google Is Using 5 Million News Articles and Gemini to Predict Flash Floods

By Abhijay Singh Rawat | March 12, 2026

Key Highlights – Flash floods kill more than 5,000 people every year, and unlike most weather events, they are notoriously resistant to prediction. They are too short-lived and too localised to be tracked the way river flows or temperatures are — which means the deep learning models now capable of forecasting most weather patterns have had very little useful data to work with when it comes to flash floods specifically. Google’s approach to fixing that is, to put it simply, unconventional. Rather than waiting for sensor infrastructure that many developing countries cannot afford to build, the company turned to the […]

Synopsys Unveils New AI Chip Design Tools After Major Acquisition

By Rishaj Upadhyay | March 11, 2026

Synopsys has just launched a new suite of software tools designed to help engineers manage the skyrocketing complexity of artificial intelligence chip design. The announcement comes just months after the company completed its $35 billion acquisition of engineering software maker Ansys. According to Reuters, the announcement was made today at a Silicon Valley event. Per the report, Synopsys has said that the new AI chip design tools are meant to give designers a more unified set of capabilities. Previously, engineers had to use different tools for different stages of chip design. However, the company executives note that the new suite […]

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