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The Sandcastle Falls: Why Flashy Demos Couldn't Save the Future of Film. 2026 Sora Post-Mortem The News: OpenAI officially announced the shutdown of the standalone Sora app on March 29, 2026. The Deal: A rumored $1 billion partnership with Disney collapsed just hours before the announcement. The Reason: Prohibitive compute costs and a 40% drop in user retention since the Sora 2 launch in Sept 2025. The Pivot: The Sora research team is moving toward "World Simulation" for robotics and physical AI. OpenAI Just Killed Sora Okay, so OpenAI just killed Sora. Yeah, the whole damn AI video app. Everyone keeps saying AI moves too fast. Bullshit. The real mistake? Thinking flashy demos last. People hyped Sora as the next TikTok—a creative playground where anyone could spit out wild, cinematic clips in seconds. Hollywood was shook. Open...

The USB-C for AI: How MCP Fixed the Internet's Plumbing Problem. 2026 MCP Intelligence Brief The Mission: One standard protocol to let any AI talk to any tool or data source. Big Tech Adoption: Apple (Xcode), Google (Drive), and Salesforce have launched official MCP servers. Key Primitives: MCP exposes three things: Tools (Actions), Resources (Data), and Prompts (Templates). The Edge: Eliminates "Glue Code." Write a connector once; use it across Claude, Cursor, and any custom agent. MCP for Beginners Everyone is talking about MCP, and almost no one is explaining it right. The common take is: "MCP is a protocol that lets AI models connect to tools." That tells you nothing useful. MCP is really about a standardization problem that was quietly breaking the AI revolution. To understand MCP, you have to understand the ungl...