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Snapshot — March 24, 2026

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Anthropic Claude Gets Computer Use on Mac — Desktop Automation from iPhone
March 24, 2026
  • Anthropic's Computer Use feature — in research preview for Claude Pro and Max on macOS — allows Claude to autonomously control a user's desktop: clicking, typing, opening apps, and completing tasks remotely.
  • The "Dispatch" companion lets users send instructions from their iPhone to be executed on their Mac.
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora — $1M/Day Burn, $1B Disney Deal Collapses
March 24, 2026
  • OpenAI discontinued Sora after six months, citing ~$1M/day compute costs against a user base that collapsed from ~1M to under 500,000.
  • The shutdown killed a $1B Disney content deal — Disney learned less than an hour before the public announcement.
  • Sam Altman reportedly stated the company cannot afford "side quests." Sora's fate is the clearest data point yet that high-fidelity AI video generation remains economically unviable at consumer scale with current infrastructure costs.
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