OpenAI Just Killed Sora.

Trump Picks Zuck and Jensen & Ditches Musk and Altman.

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Alamin Hossain
March 26, 2026

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Welcome to our Thursday edition!

In today’s menu:

  • AI Inspirational Quote

  • OpenAI Just Killed Sora.

  • Trump Picks Zuck and Jensen.

  • Today's AI Radar

  • Daily AI Byte

  • AI Cheat Sheets

  • Social Media

  • Trending AI Tools

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Six months after launch, the world's most hyped AI video app is gone — and it's taking a Disney deal down with it.

OpenAI launched Sora to a million downloads in a week. It beat ChatGPT's own record. It had a Disney deal worth $1 billion. It was supposed to be the future of video. On March 24, OpenAI quietly announced it's shutting the whole thing down — app, API, and website. No exact date. No real explanation. Just: goodbye. Disney's deal? Dead too. Not a single dollar ever changed hands.

Think about what that actually means. OpenAI — the most funded AI company in history, the company that redefined what software can do — built something, hyped it globally, signed a deal with Disney, and then walked away from all of it inside six months. That's not a pivot. That's a signal. Either the technology wasn't ready, the business model didn't work, or something better is coming that makes Sora look obsolete. Maybe all three. What we do know is this: the AI video race is still wide open, Runway and Kling are still standing, and every company watching just learned that even the biggest name in AI can get this completely wrong.

Who's In, Who's Out:

  • The inner circle: Zuckerberg (Meta), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Sergey Brin (Google), Marc Andreessen (a16z), Lisa Su (AMD), Michael Dell, and eight others. 13 members total. Up to 24 slots available — more names coming. Only two women on the entire council.

  • The people who didn't get called: Elon Musk — who literally ran Trump's government efficiency project, campaigned alongside him, and whose companies build AI, rockets, and humanoid robots — is not on the list. Neither is Sam Altman. Neither is anyone from Microsoft.

  • What this council is actually built on: Look at who made it. Nvidia makes the chips. Meta and Oracle build the data centers. Google controls the search layer. These are the people who own the physical infrastructure of AI — not the people writing the most headlines about it.

  • The awkward elephant in the room: Musk's xAI competes directly with almost everyone on this council. Grok vs ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Meta AI. Putting him in the same room as Zuckerberg and Jensen to advise on AI policy would have been a conflict of interest dressed up as a meeting. Trump may have simply decided it wasn't worth it.

What it actually means: Trump isn't picking the faces of AI. He's picking the people who control what AI runs on. Chips. Cloud. Compute. Enterprise systems. That tells you everything about how this administration thinks about the technology race with China — not as a chatbot competition, but as an infrastructure war. Whoever controls the hardware controls the outcome.

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