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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends — An Android version will follow eventually, OpenAI told Axios. — The social app is powered by Sora 2, a new version of OpenAI's video model, which also launched Tuesday.
More: Business Standard, Associated Press, The Economic Times, BMI, NDTV Profit, 9to5Mac, Curb Cuts, The Daily Caller, Straight Arrow News, Yahoo Finance, Dexerto, and Engadget
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI launches Sora 2, which it says may be the “GPT‑3.5 moment for video” with the ability to follow intricate instructions spanning multiple shots — Our latest video generation model is more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than prior systems.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and MacRumors Forums
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
OpenAI says Sora has guardrails to block depictions of public figures and to ensure that a user's likeness is used only with their consent, via “cameos” — OpenAI's new Sora AI video app is iPhone-only, for now. … OpenAI has a new version of the Sora AI video generator …
More: Stratechery, Silicon Republic, Sources, Business Today, SFGATE, OpenAI, OpenAI, and CNBC
X: @gabrielpeterss4, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @fofrai, and @racheltobac
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Google unveils new Home products: $99 Google Home Speaker, set for spring 2026, third-gen $100 Nest Cam Indoor, second-gen $150 Nest Cam Outdoor, and more — Alphabet Inc.'s Google introduced a range of new Nest-branded hardware on Wednesday, just a day after Amazon.com Inc. held its own product showcase …
More: Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Google, Wired, Android Authority, The Keyword, The Keyword, and Android Headlines
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta plans to start using users' AI chatbot conversations to help personalize ads and content, starting December 16, but not in the UK, South Korea, and the EU — While users won't be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, The Verge, Financial Times, TechCrunch, and Meta Newsroom
X: @rwang07 and @zephyr_z9
| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Amazon unveils updates to Luna, including adding AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers — Amazon is revamping its cloud-gaming service Luna to offer a wide variety of top-tier games, including “Hogwarts Legacy” and Xbox's …
More: Amazon Games, The Verge, GeekWire, T3, Engadget, GamesBeat, Eurogamer.net, and Polygon
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the UK Home Office issued a new order to Apple in early September to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time focused on UK users — Order issued in September comes after Trump administration said London had backed down in fight over encryption| Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg: |
SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with “synthetics” — SAG-Aftra, the union of film and TV industry actors, criticized the AI-generated character Tilly Norwood …
More: Deadline, Music Ally, Variety, Associated Press, Reuters, and UPI
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Bluesky: @delafina777, @lawprofblawg, and @hoots
Forums: r/goodnews, r/acting, r/technology, r/movies, and r/entertainment
| Politico: |
The White House withdraws Brian Quintenz's nomination to lead the CFTC; the Winklevoss twins pressured Trump in July to reconsider his nomination — The White House withdrew Brian Quintenz's nomination to be a board member and chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission late Tuesday …
More: Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin Insider, BeInCrypto, crypto.news, NOTUS, CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, The Block, The Hill, and Cointelegraph
| Z.ai: |
Z.ai releases GLM-4.6, an open-weights model with a context window of up to 200K tokens, claiming near parity with Claude Sonnet 4 on coding and reasoning tasks — Today, we are releasing the latest version of our flagship model: GLM-4.6. Compared with GLM-4.5, this generation brings several key improvements:
More: Z.ai on Hugging Face, Z.ai, South China Morning Post, The Decoder, Z.ai on GitHub, OpenRouter, MarkTechPost, and arXiv
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Epic says Apple's iOS 18.6 “updated user experience” for alt app marketplaces increased installations “for the first time”, cutting drop-offs from 65% to ~25% — But Google still makes them intentionally difficult to install.
More: Epic Games, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, GamesBeat, and PocketGamer.biz. Mastodon: @brucelawson@social …
| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Apple files a motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit, which alleges that Apple's ChatGPT integration stifles competition, saying it plans to integrate other chatbots — Apple Inc. says it did nothing wrong in choosing to partner with OpenAI — rather than Elon Musk's xAI — when it added generative …
More: 9to5Mac, PCMag, The Verge, AppleInsider, Reuters, Digit, MacRumors, Channel NewsAsia, iThinkDifferent, Tech in Asia, and WinBuzzer. X: @business
| Financial Times: |
Yale and Brookings study: generative AI is reshaping US jobs slightly faster than computers and the internet did, with little evidence of job loss so far — Research shows little evidence that cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work| Lex Fridman: |
Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more — - Watch the full YouTube version of the podcast — Table of Contents — Here are the loose “chapters” in the conversation.
More: Lex Fridman on YouTube, The Crypto Basic, The Crypto Times, and Cointelegraph
X: @lexfridman, @dominikposmyk, @cb_doge, and @mrkevinrothrock
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Stripe launches Open Issuance, a Bridge-powered platform that lets companies create its own stablecoins, used by crypto wallet Phantom to issue its CASH token — Payments giant Stripe unveiled a stablecoin issuance platform and AI commerce tools at its New York showcase on Tuesday …
More: Stripe, Stripe, The Information, NFTgators, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, The Crypto Basic, Unchained, Payments Dive, The Block, Decrypt, Blockonomi, Yahoo Finance, and Blockworks
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sam Altman signs a letter of intent with Samsung and SK Hynix to supply Stargate; Samsung and SK Hynix say demand from OpenAI could hit 900K wafers per month — Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Co. have forged initial agreements to supply chips and other gear to OpenAI's Stargate project … | Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Peloton unveils its Cross Training Series, including a $1,695 Bike and $6,695 Tread Plus, and AI-based Peloton IQ to track workouts on new and old machines — The fitness company is aiming for a comeback with new bikes, treadmills, AI, and higher prices — Peloton has been angling …
More: PCMag, Engadget, Fast Company, T3, Wired, Tom's Guide, Bloomberg, and Peloton Interactive, Inc.. Bluesky: @vicmsong
| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to distribute its new USAT token on Rumble to capture US market share; Tether holds a 48% stake in Rumble — Tether Holdings SA will lean on conservative video streaming platform Rumble Inc. to help distribute tokens as it seeks to conquer an increasingly competitive US crypto market.
More: Blockonomi, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, and The Block
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector-based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI — On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia's wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models.| Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
A Delaware court dismissed Arm's last claim against Qualcomm, ruling that Qualcomm and subsidiary Nuvia didn't breach license agreements; Arm plans to appeal — Qualcomm Inc. said a Delaware court dismissed Arm Holdings Plc's last remaining legal claim against the chipmaker …
More: Reuters, Tom's Hardware, Engadget, PCWorld, The Register, Qualcomm, and MarketWatch
| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils new Kindle Scribes, including the $630 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, with a larger 11" E Ink display and a lighter, thinner body at 400g and 5.4mm — Three new versions of the Kindle Scribe are launching in the coming months with larger screens and improved note-taking.
More: About Amazon, Engadget, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, Tom's Guide, Trusted Reviews, The Verge, New Atlas, The Hans India, TechEBlog, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Engadget, Bloomberg, and The Verge
X: @caro_milanesi, @caro_milanesi, @oablanchard, @gadgetsboy, @maxwinebach, @chriswelch, and @panos_panay
LinkedIn: Alexander Porcaro and Lee Hillman. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com. Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …. Forums: r/kindlescribe
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 review: an unobtrusive eye-level camera, improved battery, and lots of frames, but some may feel uncomfortable with a face-mounted camera — The second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses aren't too different from the first. The biggest change is that they have a better battery life … | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: |
Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a “commercial decision” — Imgur, one of the web's most popular image sharing and hosting platforms, has shut off access to its site to users in the United Kingdom …
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X: @iconews, @windscribecom, @pirat_nation, @k3vreilly, @liamtart, and @just_some_dev. LinkedIn: Tim Turner. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
Mastodon: @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social, @PoliceStateUK@mastodon.me.uk, @Edent@mastodon.social, @beeps@social.beeps.gay, and @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/technews, r/uknews, r/anime_titties, r/Scotland, and r/mildlyinfuriating
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Oura unveils colorful ceramic Oura Ring 4 versions for $499+ in four finishes with enhanced durability and a thicker 3.51mm design, and a $99 charging case — The company is also introducing health panels for blood work, a recycling program, and multi-ring device support.
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Police, Bloomberg, ZDNET, TechCrunch, MediaPost, T3, Android Central, Android Authority, Wired, TechRadar, nextpit, Fast Company, BGR, Mashable, and Trusted Reviews
| Andrew Higgins / New York Times: |
China's Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou showcased robots, EVs, and a self-driving yacht, but questions remain over the US-China trade dispute and profits — The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China's technology.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
AWS and the NBA announce a multi-year partnership to launch new AI-powered features and data insights from games, including an NBA Inside the Game platform — Amazon.com's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, Amazon Web Services, announced a multi-year partnership with the National Basketball Association … | Patricia Cohen / New York Times: |
Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense tech investors and startups like Helsing, applying a profit-driven model to Europe's military buildup — Russia's war on Ukraine changed the course of a generation of start-ups and investors that have applied a new business model to Europe's military buildup.
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