AI News for March 25, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI kills Sora app and API, Disney exits $1B deal: OpenAI announced it will discontinue Sora as a consumer app and API, just six months after launch.
[NEWS] Judge calls Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist 'troubling,' ruling imminent: Federal Judge Rita Lin said the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation against Anthropic "looks like an attempt to cripple" the company, calling it "troubling" since the label is normally reserved for US adversaries.
[NEWS] Arm ships first in-house chip in 35-year history, Meta is lead customer: Arm revealed the AGI CPU, a production-ready data center chip built on its Neoverse platform with up to 136 cores, 3nm lithography, and PCIe Gen6.
[NEWS] Apple plans standalone Siri app and AI reboot for iOS 27: Apple is testing a dedicated Siri app with a chat-like interface for iOS 27, set to debut at WWDC on June 8.
[NEWS] ChatGPT drops Instant Checkout, pivots to visual product discovery: OpenAI is abandoning its built-in checkout feature in ChatGPT after it "did not offer the level of flexibility" the company wanted.
[NEWS] OpenAI nears $10B raise from MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, bringing total round to ~$120B: OpenAI is closing a deal to raise about $10B from venture investors including MGX, Coatue, and Thrive Capital.
[NEWS] China restricts Manus AI cofounders from leaving the country: Chinese authorities barred two Manus cofounders from leaving the country, the Financial Times reported, adding scrutiny to Meta's $2B acquisition of the agentic AI startup in 2025.
[NEWS] LiteLLM supply chain attack steals credentials and spreads through Kubernetes: Versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 of LiteLLM, a widely used AI proxy for language model APIs, were compromised on PyPI with malware that steals SSH keys, cloud credentials, and database passwords.
[NEWS] Kleiner Perkins raises $3.5B to bet on AI startups: The 54-year-old VC firm raised $1B for its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B for late-stage growth, a 75% increase from its $2B raise less than two years ago.
[NEWS] Baltimore becomes first US city to sue xAI over Grok deepfake images: Baltimore's mayor and city council filed suit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging Grok violated consumer protections by generating nonconsensual sexualized images, including of children.

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