Daily Tech News 25 March 2026

• 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.

• 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.

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