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OpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse) (Thu, 02 Oct 2025)
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.
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OpenAI’s Sora Makes Disinformation Extremely Easy and Extremely Real (Fri, 03 Oct 2025)
The new A.I. app generated videos of store robberies and home intrusions — even bomb explosions on city streets — that never happened.
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OpenAI Completes Deal That Values It at $500 Billion (Thu, 02 Oct 2025)
With the agreement, OpenAI becomes the world’s most valuable privately held company, surpassing the rocket maker SpaceX.
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Sora and the Infinite Slop Feeds + ChatGPT Goes to Therapy + Hot Mess Express (Fri, 03 Oct 2025)
“I do not like the idea of pointing these giant A.I. supercomputers at people’s dopamine receptors and just feeding them an endless diet of hyper-personalized stimulating videos.”
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Beyond the Nobel Prizes Is a World of Scientific Awards (Sun, 05 Oct 2025)
Nobels are awarded in only three scientific categories, but other awards honor researchers across different fields.
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Cows Wear High-Tech Collars Now (Sun, 05 Oct 2025)
The wearables help dairy farmers gather more data so their animals are happier and produce more milk.
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Can Cory Doctorow’s Book ‘Enshittification’ Change the Tech Debate? (Sun, 05 Oct 2025)
Cory Doctorow’s new book looks to offer comfort, and solutions, to the inescapable feeling that digital platforms have gotten worse.
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Phyllis Gardner, Early Skeptic of Theranos, Dies at 75 (Sat, 04 Oct 2025)
A pharmacologist, she was certain Elizabeth Holmes’s blood-testing idea would fail, and spoke up about it. At first, few listened.
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Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps in Response to Trump Pressure Campaign (Fri, 03 Oct 2025)
Trump administration officials issued several legal threats over ICEBlock, a popular app that allows users to alert others to the presence of nearby immigration agents.
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Tesla Is Sued by Families Who Say Faulty Cybertruck Doors Led to Two Deaths (Fri, 03 Oct 2025)
Two Californians were trapped in a burning Cybertruck because electronic doors made it difficult for them to get out or be rescued, lawsuits claim.
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We Finally Have Free Anti-Robocall Tools That Work (Thu, 02 Oct 2025)
A new feature for iPhones screens calls, similar to a technology available for Android users. Here’s how to activate it.
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When a Driverless Car Makes an Illegal U-Turn, Who Gets the Ticket? (Wed, 01 Oct 2025)
California approved a law last year allowing the police to cite autonomous vehicles, but it did not specify any penalties, and the law doesn’t take effect until 2026.
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Heaviest Users of Snapchat Will Face a Small Charge for Storage (Wed, 01 Oct 2025)
The social media company will charge after users reach five gigabytes of free storage, which is in line with other tech giants’ policies.
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Spam and Scams Proliferate in Facebook’s Political Ads (Wed, 01 Oct 2025)
A new analysis of political advertisers found that the platform profits from ads that include deepfakes and other content prohibited by its own policies.
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A Tech Expo Shows What China Can Make, but Not Who’ll Buy It All (Wed, 01 Oct 2025)
The vast Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou stood as a rebuke to U.S. efforts to hem in China’s technology. But the real competition is internal, and profits are hard to find.
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Uber Not Responsible for Sex Assault, Jury Finds, as More Cases Follow (Tue, 30 Sep 2025)
The company is facing similar lawsuits in federal and state courts from people who claim their drivers sexually assaulted or harassed them.
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What We Know About ChatGPT’s New Parental Controls (Tue, 30 Sep 2025)
OpenAI said parents can set time and content limits on accounts and receive notifications if ChatGPT detects signs of potential self-harm.
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Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up (Tue, 30 Sep 2025)
Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields.
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YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit Over Account Suspension for $24.5 Million (Tue, 30 Sep 2025)
Mr. Trump had sued Alphabet, the parent of YouTube and Google, and other social media companies after the platforms suspended his accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
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California’s Gavin Newsom Signs Major AI Safety Law (Tue, 30 Sep 2025)
Gavin Newsom signed a major safety law on artificial intelligence, creating one of the strongest sets of rules about the technology in the nation.
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Brazil’s Homegrown Payment System Is Target of Trump Administration (Mon, 29 Sep 2025)
Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.
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Electric Vehicles Face a ‘Pretty Dreadful Year’ in the U.S. (Mon, 29 Sep 2025)
The end of a federal tax credit is expected to push sales of battery-powered cars down but auto experts believe the market will eventually recover.
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