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🤖 Microsoft pits Claude against ChatGPT for research
🦾Plus: ️🔍 Inside Sora's $1M-a-day collapse at OpenAI
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March 31, 2026
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😵 China’s DeepSeek AI Suffered its Longest Outage
🔍 Inside Sora's $1M-a-day collapse at OpenAI
🛒 Microsoft Marketplace expands AI-native solutions
🤖 Mistral Raised $830M in Debt For an AI Data Center
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Convert Notes Into Infographics With ChatGPT
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Microsoft released Critique and Council, two new features that turn its Copilot Researcher into a multi-model system that can review and edit research reports and run both systems side by side to see where they agree and disagree. Copilot's Researcher already uses OAI for multi-step work, with Critique now adding Claude as a second model to review every report before it ships.
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If you were trying to access DeepSeek today, you might already know about this. China's popular artificial intelligence chatbot suffered its longest outage today since the viral rise of its flagship R1 and V3 models early last year. The outage lasted 7 hours and 13 minutes, with no apparent reason for the outage. It has since been resolved.
A WSJ investigation just revealed the behind-the-scenes chaos of OpenAI Sora video generator shutdown, including a $1M daily burn rate, a blindsided Disney, and the internal code-named model that required Sora's compute budget. Sora was reportedly burning “roughly a million dollars a day” and using significant compute, with Sora 3 training set to start just as it was axed.
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"La concurrence s'intensifie,” as the French would say. French AI company Mistral just completed its first-ever debt raise of $830 million to fund a new data center near Paris. The new site in Bruyères-le-Châtel will use 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs as part of Mistral’s Grace Blackwell infrastructure, providing a total of 44 megawatts to help the company better compete with competitors OpenAI and Anthropic.
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How to Convert Handwritten Notes Into Polished Infographics With ChatGPT
Turn rough ideas or hand-drawn sketches into polished visuals you can use in presentations, posts, or designs.
Here’s how to do it (step-by-step): 👇
Step 1: Open ChatGPT and click the “+” button → choose “Add photos & files.”
Step 2: Upload your sketch, diagram, or rough visual and click “create image.”
Step 3: Paste this prompt:
“Turn this image into a clean, high-quality infographic. Extract the main ideas only (no small details or filler text). Keep the main elements, improve the layout, group related points into simple sections, use short, scannable text (headings + brief labels), apply a clean, modern layout with strong visual hierarchy, use icons, spacing, and color blocks to improve clarity, keep the design minimal and professional, suitable for social posts or presentations. Do not copy the handwriting style; use modern typography.”
Step 4: Review the image or ask ChatGPT to adjust style, layout, or color details.
💡 Quick Tip: You can sketch thumbnails, diagrams, or content layouts, and ChatGPT will turn them into publish-ready visuals.
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