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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, r/aiwars, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 had 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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| 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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| 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 decide 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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| 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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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Norwegian payment service Vipps launches the world's first alternative to Apple Pay on iPhone, following Apple's move to open up NFC access to devs in 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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| Les Pounder / Tom's Hardware: |
Raspberry Pi 500 review: the Pi 5's power in a convenient keyboard form factor with awesome thermal performance, but lacks NVMe and no camera or display ports — Cramming a Raspberry Pi 5 into a keyboard — Tom's Hardware Verdict … When the Raspberry Pi 400 was released …
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Mastodon: @0atman@mastodon.social. X: @geerlingguy, @raspberry_pi, @geerlingguy, @geerlingguy, and @pimoroni
Forums: Hacker News and r/raspberry_pi
| 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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In a mockup posted on GitHub, Bluesky teases Bluesky+, an $8 per month paid 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 signs an agreement with Meta to let Meta use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and to collaborate on the development of Llama-based AI agents — Oracle shares slid 7% in extended trading on Monday after the database software company reported fiscal second-quarter results that fell short … | Kali Hays / Fortune: |
Stability AI CEO Prem Akkaraju, who was hired in June 2024, says the startup has seen “triple digit growth” and has “a clean balance sheet, no debt” — Stability AI's CEO said the company' was back in growth mode after a rough period, with business up by triple digits …
X: @lwinthorpe
| Issie Lapowsky / Rest of World: |
How WhatsApp has evolved from a messaging app into a comprehensive business platform, aggressively luring 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
Bluesky: @siddharthagolu.com, @paularmstrongtbd, @alberico, @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, and @producing2power. Mastodon: @ncoca@social.coop
X: @rinachandran, @asinvideogames, @asinvideogames, @asinvideogames, @asinvideogames, and @asinvideogames. LinkedIn: Itika Sharma Punit
| SemiAnalysis: |
A look at Intel's problems, starting with 2016's 10nm node: 7/11 board members have no chip experience, most CEO options are worse than Pat Gelsinger, and more — Intel's board is incompetent and its horrible decisions over the decades are going to push it towards death.
More: Fabricated Knowledge, Stratechery, and Thurrott
Bluesky: @paularmstrongtbd. X: @pgelsinger, @stevesi, @doggycapital, @dylan522p, @basedjensen, @rnaudbertrand, @kyleichan, @pgelsinger, @_fabknowledge_, @metacriticcap, @_fabknowledge_, @benthompson, @_fabknowledge_, @rodolfor, @qcapital2020, and @jordanschnyc
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