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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, 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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Forums: r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/mkbhd, and r/StableDiffusion
| 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, @nature, @newsfromgoogle, @preskill, @shaunmmaguire, @googleai, @jeffdean, @benbenbrubaker, @dangaristo, @bloombergtv, @_weidai, @kpcallaghan_, @jackbutcher, @mikenewmquantum, @marty_stenson, @kevinrose, @aravsrinivas, @andyparackal, @trungtphan, @elonmusk, @davidmarcus, @scobleizer, @ericnewcomer, @sundarpichai, @sundarpichai, @ericnewcomer, @teroterotero, @sama, @elonmusk, @geiger_capital, and @sundarpichai
LinkedIn: Bjarne Philip Tellmann, Ryan Babbush, Philip Richardson Obe, Will Grannis, and Soufiane Hayou
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/Futurology, r/Destiny, and r/singularity
| 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: @angelazhanghk, @patrickmoorhead, @danielnewmanuv, @benjaminqiu, @beijingdai, and @okaythenme. LinkedIn: Patrick Moorhead
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
| 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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| 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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Bluesky: @chrisgeidner. Threads: @kenkenkitty. X: @tiktokpolicy, @ebakerwhite, @ebakerwhite, and @dc_reporter. Forums: r/TikTokshop
| 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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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @karissabe, and @jaypeters.net
| 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
| 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, @doggycapital, @dylan522p, @basedjensen, @rnaudbertrand, @kyleichan, @pgelsinger, @_fabknowledge_, @metacriticcap, @_fabknowledge_, @benthompson, @_fabknowledge_, @rodolfor, @qcapital2020, and @jordanschnyc. LinkedIn: Durgesh Mishra
Forums: r/intel and r/hardware
| 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 …
More: MediaPost, Social Media Today, and The Desk
Bluesky: @saeri.xyz, @saeri.xyz, @deck.blue, @danabra.mov, @saeri.xyz, @scalzi.com, @themountaingoats, @wafflethekodiak, and @samuel.bsky.team. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| 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 …
More: a16z crypto. X: @hikari_no_yume, @patio11, @molly0xfff, @tyler, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, @patio11, and @patio11. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 … | 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.
More: The Verge and Windows Central
Bluesky: @fxshaw.com and @thedextriarchy
Forums: r/singularity, r/browsers, and Slashdot
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