OpenAI killed Sora on March 24th, 2026. It hit number one in the App Store within 24 hours, locked a billion-dollar Disney deal, and lasted six months. The official reason was compute costs. The real reason was governance failure.

In this episode of AI Pulse, we break down what Sora's shutdown reveals about a pattern running through the entire AI industry right now: velocity over verification. Ship first. Figure out the controls later. And pay for it when the market forces your hand.

We cover:
— Why 88% of companies adopted AI but only 6% are seeing real returns (McKinsey, 2025)
— Why 42% of AI projects were abandoned in 2025, nearly triple the year before (S&P Global)
— Why 95% of generative AI pilots never make it to production (MIT NANDA Initiative)
— What happened when Amazon's ungoverned agent Kiro deleted an entire production environment
— How the Pentagon banned Anthropic for refusing to remove safety guardrails, then signed OpenAI the same afternoon
— Why Shadow AI is now costing organizations an extra $670,000 per breach (IBM, 2025)
— What the government's January 2026 AI acceleration directive actually says, and what it means

AI is not failing because the technology doesn't work. It's failing because organizations built the engine before they built the brakes.

AICT exists to close that gap. Our job is to make sure AI doesn't eat people, and the market has to answer before the government does.

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🔗 SOURCES & RESOURCES

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The Epoch Times Interview: https://www.google.com/search?q=Christopher+Trocola+Epoch+Times+AI+Adversarial+Manipulation
https://www.ibm.com/reports/data-breach
AI 2027 Report: https://AI-2027.com
McKinsey Global State of AI 2025: https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
S&P Global AI Adoption Report: https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/research/ai-experiences-rapid-adoption-but-with-mixed-outcomes-highlights-from-vote-ai-machine-learning
MIT NANDA 95% GenAI Pilots Report: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/
DoD AI Strategy (Jan 9, 2026): https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/2003855671/-1/-1/0/ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE-STRATEGY-FOR-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-WAR.PDF
Anthropic Pentagon Ban (NPR): https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5313229/anthropic-ai-military-ban-department-of-war
Anthropic Pentagon Ban (Fortune): https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-banned-us-military-supply-chain-risk-openai-pentagon-deal/
Anthropic Pentagon Ban (Built In): https://builtin.com/articles/anthropic-banned-us-military

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