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Zvi Mowshowitz argues that a Wall Street Journal article claiming China has matched Anthropic is factually false and misleading. The post critiques both the original reporting and its uncritical amplification by other outlets. The item is relevant as a counter-signal to a narrative about the US-China AI capability gap.
A Wall Street Journal report claims that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's conversations with U.S. government officials led to a regulatory or policy crackdown targeting Anthropic's AI models. The story surfaced on Hacker News with significant engagement (376 points, 296 comments), suggesting it is drawing broad attention in the AI community. The incident highlights the intersection of major cloud provider relationships, frontier AI labs, and U.S. government oversight of AI systems.
OpenAI is discontinuing its Sora video generation model, with web/app access ending April 26 and API access closing September 24, 2026. The model was losing roughly $1 million per day, with daily active users falling below 500,000 after peaking at 1 million post-mobile launch. The Sora team will be redirected to longer-term projects including world models and robotics, while compute resources have already been diverted to a new coding/enterprise model codenamed Spud. The shutdown also effectively ends OpenAI's high-profile partnership with Disney, which had planned to invest up to $1 billion contingent on Sora integration.
OpenAI and News Corp have announced a landmark multi-year global partnership that will integrate News Corp's premium journalism content into OpenAI's generative AI products and platforms. The deal gives OpenAI access to a broad portfolio of News Corp publications including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, and other major outlets. This represents one of the largest media licensing agreements in the generative AI space, continuing a trend of AI labs securing content deals with major publishers.