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Arm Abandoned Neutrality. Its Biggest Customers Cheered. OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction. Your Router Banned. Your Desktop Commandeered. Your Headlines Rewritten. FCC Blocks New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers From US Sale in Sweeping Security Order Anthropic Gives Claude Full Control of Mac Desktops in Agent Push Against OpenClaw The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing Arm Abandoned Neutrality. Its Biggest Customers Cheered. OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction. Your Router Banned. Your Desktop Commandeered. Your Headlines Rewritten. FCC Blocks New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers From US Sale in Sweeping Security Order Anthropic Gives Claude Full Control of Mac Desktops in Agent Push Against OpenClaw The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing
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OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction.

OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction.

On Tuesday, OpenAI killed Sora, its AI video platform, blindsiding Disney thirty minutes after a working session. The $1 billion deal collapsed without a dollar changing hands. Compute costs ran an estimated $15 million per day for a product that earned $2.1 million in its lifetime. Downloads peaked at 3.3 million in November, fell to 1.1 million by February. The math was never mysterious. The real question is what this decision reveals about the company OpenAI is trying to become.

By Marcus Schuler · 5 min read · 3 hours ago
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$2.1M — Sora's total lifetime revenue from a product burning an estimated $15 million per day in compute
From: OPINION: OpenAI Killed Its Best Demo. Strategy Is Subtraction.
02 Vibe Coding
Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More
Vibe Coding

Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI Are Converging. The Gaps Matter More

Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI share commands like /clear, /model, and @ file references. But similar commands behave differently across tools, context windows range from 192K to 1M tokens, and each company's strategic divergence tells a sharper story than the shared vocabulary.

Marcus Schuler · 12 min read · Mar 22
Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes
Vibe Coding

Claude Code Channels Has No Voice Support. You Can Add It in 20 Minutes

Claude Code Channels launched without voice messaging. A 120-line patch and a Whisper server add it in 20 minutes, with cloud alternatives for those without GPU hardware. Plus: how OpenClaw's agent improvised voice transcription before anyone built support for it.

Marcus Schuler · 15 min read · Mar 20
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing
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The Intelligence Arbitrage Is Closing

AI token prices fell 99% in three years. Enterprise value now flows to orchestration, data flywheels, workflow integration, and compliance.

Marcus Schuler · 28 min read · Mar 24
From Today's Analysis
“Arm spent 35 years licensing chip blueprints without competing against customers. That ended Tuesday with a 136-core data center CPU. Over 50 licensees applauded. When your supplier becomes your rival and nobody flinches, the reasons matter more than the chip.”
From: Arm Abandoned Neutrality. Its Biggest Customers Cheered.
05 Deep Dives
Google Called It an Experiment. The Last One Became Permanent in a Month.
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Google Called It an Experiment. The Last One Became Permanent in a Month.

Google's AI is rewriting publisher headlines in search results with no label or disclosure. The company calls it a small experiment, but that's exactly what it said about Discover headlines last December. That test became permanent in four weeks. Publishers have already lost 34 percent of Google search referrals. Now the last element they controlled in results is being replaced by machine-generated text that has already reversed the meaning of at least one article.

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