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OpenAI is shutting down Sora and halting all video model development, ceding the generative video space entirely to Google. The retreat is abrupt and significant — just months after Sora's splashy debut, OpenAI appears to be concentrating firepower on its core text and reasoning models rather than fighting a multifront war.
Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite today, targeting enterprise scale with 2.5x faster time-to-first-token than its predecessor and aggressive pricing at $0.25 per million input tokens. Coming on the heels of OpenAI's video exit, Google is pressing its momentum hard across both consumer and developer markets.
Google DeepMind released Lyria 3 Pro, its most advanced AI music model, rolling out to Gemini paid subscribers and developers via API today. The move strengthens Google's grip on creative AI verticals at a moment when OpenAI is retreating from multimedia generation.
Starting April 24, GitHub will use interaction data from Free, Pro, and Pro+ Copilot users to train AI models — opt-out, not opt-in. It's a quiet but consequential policy shift that will affect millions of developers and is already drawing pushback from privacy advocates.
Meta laid off roughly 700 people — primarily in Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales — the day after unveiling a stock retention program that could pay top AI executives up to $921 million each over five years. The contrast is stark: rank-and-file cuts fund a war chest to retain AI talent at the top.
The White House published seven guiding recommendations for AI governance today, explicitly telling Congress not to create any new federal AI regulatory body and to stick with a sector-by-sector approach through existing regulators. Separately, the Commerce Department signaled it will withhold ~$21 billion in BEAD broadband funds from states with "onerous" AI laws — a blunt federal lever over state-level regulation.
The Treasury's AI Transformation Office and FSOC kicked off a new public-private initiative today focused on embedding AI into core financial workflows — risk management, resilience, and governance. The initiative convenes regulators and industry leaders to keep oversight frameworks in step with actual deployment pace.
