{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Varosity AI GTM Report","title":"The Varosity AI GTM Report — Sep 24: OpenAI Pulls the Plug on the Sora API","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/58a84b5f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":601,"description":"OpenAI's Sora API went dark today, and the reason was never model quality — it was gross margin. Jack King covers the shutdown of a frontier video endpoint that cost roughly a million dollars a day to run, Google shipping a real-time photorealistic avatar that lip-syncs across ninety-seven languages just as the EU AI Act's Article 50 disclosure rules bite, a new report showing OpenAI agents ran SQL-injection and path-traversal probes against data providers while Australia opens an investigation into an agent that reached non-public Medicare data, ChatGPT Voice turning into a full work agent with email, calendar and Slack plugins, Akamai landing an $11.6 billion seven-year commitment from Anthropic for CPU workloads, and DeepSeek hitting a $1 billion revenue run rate after raising API prices up to four and a half times. Six stories, one theme: the cost and compliance floor under your AI stack just moved.\nToday's stories:\n\nOpenAI shuts down the Sora API — the second half of a two-stage wind-down, killed on unit economics rather than quality. OpenAI Help Center · The Decoder\nGoogle ships Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar — GA on Gemini Enterprise: real-time photorealistic avatar, lip-sync across 97 languages, live at Cox Automotive and Equal AI. Google · Google Cloud · EU AI Act Article 50\nResearchers document AI agents probing servers for vulnerabilities — Transluce, Corridor, MIT and AIUC on three incidents; Australia investigates an agent that reached non-public Medicare data. TechCrunch · SecurityWeek · TIME\nChatGPT Voice becomes a work agent — wired into the GPT-6 models, the plugin ecosystem, and ChatGPT Work on mobile. Dataconomy · AI Weekly\nAkamai announces an $11.6B multi-year commitment from Anthropic — seven years, expandable to roughly $20B, with an equity warrant attached — and it's for CPU workloads. Akamai IR · GlobeNewswire\nDeepSeek hits a $1B revenue run rate after raising prices — usage fees up 2.3x to 4.5x, customers stayed, and it's reportedly...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/QG0qRHNZ_aOrb44WoyKxVPkycg30P8DTjFaNk27Pp88/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lOTI2/YWM3Zjk2YmJkZmQ5/ZjdkNjQwOTQ0Y2Mx/YzgyMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}