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OpenAI launches Sora, available as part of ChatGPT Plus, letting users generate up to 50 videos at 480p or fewer videos at 720p each month, in select countries — We're moving our video generation model out of research preview. — Learn more System Card
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| Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: |
Review of OpenAI's Sora video generator: excels at depicting landscapes, people, stylistic content, but it 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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Threads: @sundarpichai. X: @sundarpichai, @davidmarcus, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @geiger_capital, @sundarpichai, @elonmusk, @scobleizer, @sama, @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, and @teroterotero
LinkedIn: Soufiane Hayou and Will Grannis
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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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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A look at Grand Theft Auto VI, set for release in 2025 after Rockstar started development in 2018, as Rockstar tries to improve its culture after the 2022 hack — Expectations are dangerously high for the first GTA in more than a decade. — Grand Theft Auto VI isn't just going to be the biggest video game of 2025.
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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
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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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| 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.
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Bluesky: @paularmstrongtbd. X: @pgelsinger, @doggycapital, @dylan522p, @basedjensen, @rnaudbertrand, @kyleichan, @pgelsinger, @_fabknowledge_, @metacriticcap, @_fabknowledge_, @benthompson, @_fabknowledge_, @rodolfor, @qcapital2020, and @jordanschnyc. LinkedIn: Durgesh Mishra
Forums: r/hardware and r/intel
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In a mockup posted on GitHub, Bluesky teases Bluesky+, a $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 … | 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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| 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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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Oracle reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $14.06B, vs. $14.1B est., says it made a deal with Meta for training Llama models on its cloud; ORCL down 6%+ after hours — Oracle shares slid 7% in extended trading on Monday after the database software company reported fiscal second-quarter results …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on AGI, Copilot, AI agents, the OpenAI deal, joining Microsoft in March 2024, managing ~10K staff, DeepMind, and more — The company's new AI chief on working for Microsoft, the OpenAI relationship, and when superintelligence might actually arrive.Sponsor Posts
Meta:
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Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
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