Judge: Pentagon ban on Anthropic looks punitive

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis cover OpenAI shutting down Sora without warning, Disney's billion dollar deal evaporating with it, Claude gaining the ability to control your computer, ARM entering the chip market with Meta, and a federal judge calling the Pentagon's Anthropic ban an attempt to cripple the company.

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• 0:00:00 - Start
• 0:01:08 - OpenAI Scraps Sora Video Platform Months After Launch
• 0:02:58 - OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video App; Disney Drops Plans for $1 Billion Investment
• 0:08:08 - OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well
• 0:17:40 - @edzitron: This is something a company does when things are going well

• 0:18:07 - OpenAI to create desktop super app, combining ChatGPT app, browser and Codex app
• 0:19:56 - OpenAI bets on Altman-backed fusion startup
• 0:26:24 - Claude Code and Cowork can now use your computer
• 0:37:25 - Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
• 0:41:19 - Trump administration unveils national AI policy framework to limit state power
• 0:49:00 - Google confirms AI headline rewrites test in Search results
• 0:54:52 - U.S. Government’s Ban on Anthropic Looks Like Punishment, Judge Says
• 0:56:06 - Apple sets June date for WWDC 2026, teasing ‘AI advancements’
• 0:57:39 - Meta is secretly working on an AI detection tool after unleashing AI slop avalanche

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