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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.
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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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| 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 …
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| Carl Franzen / Venturebeat: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon unveils the $100 Echo Dot Max and $220 Echo Studio smart speakers and upgrades its $180 Echo Show 8 and $220 Echo Show 11 smart displays, all with Alexa+ — New speakers include revamped look, upgraded silicon and integration with Alexa+ subscription service.
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| Ryan Epps / Tom's Guide: |
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| Andrew Liszewski / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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: TechCrunch, Epic Games, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, GamesBeat, and Notebookcheck
| 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:
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| 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 Times, and Cointelegraph
X: @lexfridman, @dominikposmyk, @cb_doge, and @mrkevinrothrock
| 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, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Reuters, Channel NewsAsia, iThinkDifferent, WinBuzzer, and Tech in Asia. X: @business
| 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.
More: The Verge
| 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: The Block, crypto.news, and The Merkle News
| 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: The Register, Reuters, and MarketWatch
| 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 the cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work| Christine Mui / Politico: |
Interviews with 50+ people detail how the Trump administration seized control of Biden's $7.4B Natcast chips initiative, a move that many consider shortsighted — SAN FRANCISCO — A $7.4 billion tech initiative devised as the linchpin of America's semiconductor resurgence is in limbo … | 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.| 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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Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/technews, r/uknews, r/anime_titties, r/Scotland, and r/mildlyinfuriating
| 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.
More: KSTP-TV and Associated Press
| Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: |
Axiom Math, which aims to build an “AI mathematician” and has recruited researchers from Meta, raised a $64M seed led by B Capital at a $300M valuation — Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.| Richard Milne / Financial Times: |
Swedish AI startups Lovable, Legora, and Sana, which is set to be acquired by Workday, highlight a dilemma in European tech: sell out or bet on getting big — Swedish start-ups show dilemma over choosing between selling up or betting on becoming huge — Anton Osika's AI start … | Jenny Vrentas / New York Times: |
How live sports betting has exploded in popularity in the US, accounting for more than half of the money wagered on FanDuel and DraftKings in recent quarters — As the Oklahoma City Thunder were on their way to winning the decisive Game 7 of this year's N.B.A. Finals, a flurry of shadow games … | Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
A California jury finds Uber not liable for a woman's alleged sexual assault by her driver, in the first trial out of 500+ consolidated lawsuits in the state — Uber is not liable for the sexual assault of a woman who said she was attacked by her driver on a ride she ordered from the app …
More: Bloomberg Law, New York Times, and The Japan Times
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