OpenAI launches its Sora app on Android
OpenAI has brought its AI video app, Sora, to Android. The app, which lets you create, share, and remix AI-generated videos, is now available on the Google Play Store in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea,…
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Shopify says AI traffic is up 7x since January, AI-driven orders are up 11x
E-commerce software provider Shopify is bullish on AI-powered shopping agents, citing AI as an “incredible tool” to enable more entrepreneurs and calling it the “biggest shift in technology since the internet” during its third-quarter earnings…
Trump on why he pardoned Binance CEO: “Are you ready? I don’t know who he is.”
“My sons are involved in crypto much more than I—me,” Trump said on 60 Minutes. “I—I know very little about it, other than one thing. It’s a huge industry. And if we’re not gonna be…
It’s Been a Year Since Trump Was Elected. Democrats Still Don’t Get the Internet
After losing big in 2024, Democrats promised a digital reckoning.But 12 months out from that devastating slate of losses, Democratic digital programs are still plagued by the same issues that doomed them last year. Despite…
Your smart home questions, answered
There are a couple of universal truths about the smart home. Yes, you will come to treat your robot vacuum like a member of the family, and no, you cannot escape the fact that there…
Dune driving with Mercedes-Benz as it tests off-road systems
The reason Mercedes’ engineers were driving up and down and across the dunes was to work on the car’s brake control systems. As you slow with the brake pedal, the car’s electronic brain juggles the…
What to Do in Seattle if You’re Here for Business (2025)
As much as any city, Seattle is synonymous with the tech industry. Over the past 40 years, Seattle and its suburbs have seen hometown heroes like Microsoft and Amazon grow into some of the biggest…
Nintendo is raising its Switch 2 sales expectations
The Switch 2’s popularity has exceeded even Nintendo’s anticipations, with the company raising its sales forecast for the console by more than 25 percent. In its latest earnings release, covering April 1st to September 30th,…
Studio Ghibli and other Japanese publishers want OpenAI to stop training on their work
A Japanese trade organization representing publishers like Studio Ghibli wrote a letter to OpenAI last week, calling for the AI giant to stop training its AI models on their copyrighted content without permission. Studio Ghibli,…
LLMs show a “highly unreliable” capacity to describe their own internal processes
WHY ARE WE ALL YELLING?! Credit: Anthropic Unfortunately for AI self-awareness boosters, this demonstrated ability was extremely inconsistent and brittle across repeated tests. The best-performing models in Anthropic’s tests—Opus 4 and 4.1—topped out at correctly…