Wall Street Journal:
Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks  —  When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …

Business Insider:
Some iOS developers say the App Store review process is taking significantly longer, up to multiple weeks, with an influx of vibe-coded apps as the likely cause  —  - Apple's App Store is seeing an influx of new apps each month.  — Developers say the flood of apps is increasing wait times.

Jemima McEvoy / The Information:
Midjourney CEO David Holz says the company's revenue “significantly surpassed” $200M in 2023, and has “gone up” since then, despite its declining web traffic  —  Over much of the past year, David Holz, the 37-year-old founder of Midjourney, has devoted himself to a single task …

Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda  —  A new pro-AI political operation is jumping into this year's midterms with a plan to spend more than $100 million …

Bloomberg:
A look at Coinbase One and other insurance-like plans for crypto users that typically exclude coverage for many kinds of account hacks, including phishing scams  —  When Matthew Allan realized nearly $100,000 in Bitcoin was missing from his Coinbase account, he wasn't too worried.