NVIDIA Wants to Be Apple. OpenAI Just Killed Sora.
Plus: 81,000 people told Anthropic what AI actually broke.
1. 81,000 People on AI: The Math Doesn’t Add Up
Anthropic interviewed 80,508 users across 159 countries and 70 languages.
81% said AI had already moved them toward their goals.
The top delivery area was productivity at 32%.
But right underneath: 18.9% said AI hasn’t delivered at all.
The top concern wasn’t job loss (22.3%) — it was unreliability, at 26.7%.
And 46% of people who worried about cognitive atrophy said they’d already seen it happening to themselves.
Editor’s take:
Good news: AI is useful.
Bad news: a quarter of users say it isn’t reliable, a fifth say it hasn’t delivered anything, and half the people worried about cognitive decline say.
But sure, productivity’s up 32% 🙌
2. Claude Now Controls Your Desktop
Anthropic launched computer use in Claude Cowork (and Code) on March 23.
Basically, Claude can now see your screen, move your mouse, open apps, navigate browsers, fill spreadsheets, and run scheduled tasks while you’re away.
Editor’s take: Controls mouse, keyboard, screen. Runs scheduled workflows. Operates inside legacy software without APIs. Sound familiar? This is OpenClaw’s territory! Except it’s built into a product 200 million people already use, with Anthropic handling the security layer.
If you’ve been curious about AI agents but didn’t want to install an open-source tool that can see your entire desktop, this is your on-ramp.
3. NVIDIA Makes the Chips. Now It Makes the Models Too.
NVIDIA published Nemotron-Cascade-2 (Name actually doesn’t matter if you don’t keep track on this types of info), a fully open-source AI model that won gold medals, matching models 20 times its size.
The model, training data, and full methodology are all public.
Editor’s take:
This is the Apple playbook!
Build the hardware, then build the software that runs on it.
NVIDIA already owns the GPU layer. Now it’s publishing open-source models that compete with the ones its own customers are spending billions to train.
Way to do business!
4. Same Hype, Different Decade
Gartner surveyed 469 CEOs and senior business executives, 80% expect AI to change their company’s value proposition and capabilities by 2028.
That’s nearly identical to the 80% who expected the same from digital transformation back in 2018.
→ Gartner
Editor’s take:
The number that matters isn’t 80%, but the same 80% as 2018!
CEOs said digital would change everything. Now they’re saying AI will change everything.
The question your board should be asking isn’t “will AI transform us?”… maybe it’s “did digital actually transform us?”
Because if the answer is no, doing it again with a different label won’t help.
5. OpenAI Killed Sora. Good.
OpenAI is discontinuing Sora. If you never heard of it, it’s the consumer app, the API, and the video generation in ChatGPT while infringed nearly every major movie company's copyright.
The $1 billion Disney deal is dead before any money changed hands.
→ BBC News
Editor’s take:
OpenAI has been spending like someone who just won the jackpot — a standalone video app, a Disney licensing deal, social features, APIs, consumer and enterprise plays all at once.
Killing Sora is an admission that none of that was working. But it might also be the first sign of an actual product strategy.
They’re late to focus, but they have to start somewhere. This is somewhere.