In a major shakeup of the generative AI landscape, OpenAI has announced it is shuttering its standalone Sora video application, effectively ending its highly publicized attempt to dominate the consumer short-form video market. The move comes just as ByteDance began a massive global expansion of its own video generation tool, Seedance 2.0. Image: Bytedance.com Seedance 2.0 The decision to retire Sora, confirmed by OpenAI on March 24, 2026, marks a sudden pivot for the company.

In a stinging legal rebuke to the White House, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from labelling AI firm Anthropic as a "supply chain risk." The ruling marks an early but significant victory for the company in its high-stakes battle with the Pentagon over the ethical boundaries of artificial intelligence in warfare. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued the preliminary injunction on March 26, 2026, halting a series of punitive measures that Anthrop

Google is fundamentally changing how the world interacts with information by launching Search Live globally. The feature, which transitions traditional search from a text-based experience into a real-time multimodal conversation, is now available in over 200 countries and territories where Google’s "AI Mode" is active. Announced on March 26, 2026, the expansion is powered by the new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model. This high-speed, natively multilingual engine allows users to spe

Google has officially supercharged its AI Studio platform, introducing a massive upgrade that transforms it from a simple prompt playground into a production-ready, full-stack development environment. At the heart of this "AI Studio 2.0" launch is the integration of the Antigravity coding agent, a powerful autonomous system designed to handle the heavy lifting of modern software engineering through a "vibe coding" interface. Editorial credit: Nwz / Shutterstock "Vibe coding",

A viral wave of "agentic AI" is sweeping through China’s tech hubs, with the open-source framework OpenClaw achieving a level of mass-market penetration that has now surpassed adoption rates in the United States. The phenomenon, colloquially dubbed "raising a lobster" due to the project’s crustacean-themed branding, has transformed from a developer niche into a nationwide craze involving everyone from retired engineers to elementary school students. Originally released in lat