Sora’s enthusiasm fades

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Meta probe: The social network risks a temporary ban in the EU over allegations that its WhatsApp AI tools block other AI providers from offering their products through the communications app.

Big chip plans: Beijing-based Cambricon wants to more than triple its AI chip production in 2026, seeking to take advantage of a void left by Nvidia’s forced exit from China.

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Goldman Sachs has delayed a planned $1.3 billion mortgage-bond sale for CyrusOne, the data center operator that supports the CME Group after a major outage last month that knocked out the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s global markets. The refinancing deal for CyrusOne, owned by KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners, would have been its largest ever.

Must Read

OpenAI introduced Sora, its image generator, with fanfare a couple of months ago, but enthusiasm seems to have dimmed, Ellen Huet reports in today’s Tech In Depth. The AI company pitched Sora as a way to create and share fun images with friends, but Huet writes that the social element appears to have fallen flat.

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This Week in Q&AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told his staff to focus its energy and resources on ChatGPT in the face of stronger competition to the company’s flagship chatbot, particularly from Google’s Gemini, Shirin Ghaffary reports in this week’s Q&AI. A huge part of Gemini’s success, she reports, is improvements that Google has made to the process of training a new AI model on vast datasets.

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