OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video generation model, just months after launching an updated version of the app to great fanfare. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly told OpenAI staff that the move "is one of a number of steps OpenAI is taking to refocus on business and coding functions ahead of a potential initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year," reported The Wall Street Journal. A source told The Hollywood Reporter that Disney is also exiting the deal it signed with OpenAI last year, in which it pledged to invest $1 billion in the company and agreed to license some of its characters for use in Sora.

When I noticed an event called The Wrong Biennale, my first thought was, “Well, it’s about time.” Then I noticed that an artist I know is taking part. So I emailed Klay-James Enos, who was on his way to the airport at the time. He sent the following information about the digital pavilion where his work can be seen, one of seemingly hundreds of pavilions across the globe that are hosting local exhibitions that can be seen anywhere, anytime until the Biennale ends on March 31st...