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OpenAI launches Sora in select countries; ChatGPT Pro offers up to 500 videos per month at up to 1080p, and ChatGPT Plus offers up to 50 videos at up to 720p — We're moving our video generation model out of research preview. — Learn more System Card — Our video generation model …
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| Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: |
Review of OpenAI's Sora video generator: excels at depicting landscapes, people, and stylistic content but often fails with basic physics like object permanence — SORA generates videos. This is the first review.Get up to 40% off on last minute gifts at https://ridge.com/MKBHDThe (real) birding video: https://youtu.be/F...
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| John Russell / HPCwire: |
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap — Google today introduced its latest quantum chip — Willow (~100 qubits) — coinciding with two key achievements run on the new chip …
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| Patrick McKenzie / Bits about Money: |
A deep dive into “debanking”, which crypto advocates, including a16z, claim has been used against them by US political actors and agencies without due process — Recently, noted VC Marc Andreessen kicked off a discussion about debanking, in a podcast with his co-founder Ben Horowitz …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Norwegian payment service Vipps launches the world's first Apple Pay alternative on iOS, following Apple's move to open NFC access to developers from iOS 18.1 — Norwegian payment service Vipps has become the world's first company to launch a competing tap-to-pay solution to Apple Pay on iPhone …
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| Sabrina Willmer / Bloomberg: |
Filing: TikTok asks a US court to put on hold a law forcing a sale or ban of the app until SCOTUS can review it and the Trump admin can determine its position — TikTok asked that a US law forcing a sale or ban of the app by China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. be put on hold to give the US Supreme Court a chance to review.
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A growing cohort of AI startups are recruiting scores of experts to train models on highly specialized tasks for sensitive sectors like defense and health care — From spotting weeds in cotton fields to scanning the bush for signs of poachers, AI startups are recruiting scores of experts for highly specialized tasks.| Issie Lapowsky / Rest of World: |
How WhatsApp evolved from a messaging app into a business messaging growth platform, aggressively luring big businesses to its suite of paid messaging products — WhatsApp is already the world's most widely used messaging app. Meta wants it to be a lot more. — • PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES
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X: @rinachandran, @asinvideogames, @asinvideogames, @asinvideogames, @asinvideogames, and @asinvideogames. LinkedIn: Itika Sharma Punit
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In mockups on GitHub, Bluesky teases Bluesky+, a $72-per-year or $8-per-month subscription offering profile customizations, higher video upload limits, and more — Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is working on subscriptions. The company first announced plans to develop …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $14.06B, vs. $14.1B est., and signs a deal with Meta to train Llama models on Oracle's cloud; ORCL drops 7%+ after hours — Oracle shares slid 7% in extended trading on Monday after the database software company reported fiscal second-quarter results … | Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Chinese state media: the State Administration for Market Regulation opened an anti-monopoly investigation into Nvidia tied to its Mellanox acquisition in 2020 — - Probe from the market regulator is looking into Mellanox deal — Nvidia shares dropped in early trading after the announcement
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X: @patrickmoorhead, @danielnewmanuv, @beijingdai, @okaythenme, @benjaminqiu, and @angelazhanghk. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Reddit says it is testing Reddit Answers, which lets select US users ask questions and receive curated summaries of relevant responses and threads in English — As more AI companies gobble up Reddit's data to fuel their own chatbots, the popular online forum site has begun testing a new conversational AI feature of its own.
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