OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. “We’re saying goodbye to Sora,” the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date. “We’ve decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer …

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Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers | TechCrunch

Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers | TechCrunch

Data center developer Crusoe is ramping up its energy storage capacity with battery buys from Form Energy and Redwood Energy. The company said it will buy 12 gigawatt-hours of Form Energy’s 100-hour batteries. It’s the second large sale made by Form, which last month said it would build a 30 gigawatt-hour battery for Google in Minnesota. That deal was worth …

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Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product | TechCrunch

Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product | TechCrunch

With an overflowing war chest from its $5 billion raise that closed last month (not to mention billions in revenue), Databricks is acquiring. The company, best known for its cloud data analytics platform, announced on Tuesday that it was launching a new security product called Lakewatch. Lakewatch takes Databricks’ ability to store massive amounts of data and performs classic Security …

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Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an ‘Ask Siri’ button in iOS 27

Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an ‘Ask Siri’ button in iOS 27

Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman has been sharing every incremental update about what Apple’s long-awaited Siri overhaul will and won’t include. His latest article claims that the AI assistant will have a standalone app and will introduce an “Ask Siri” feature that could mark a decidedly different direction in how users will interact with the platform. Gurman reports that Siri is being …

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Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startup’s rapid growth

Drone home: Brinc moving to massive new HQ and factory in Seattle amid startup’s rapid growth

The main floor of the new Brinc Drones factory and headquarters location in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of public safety drones for first responders, is moving its headquarters and factory space to a massive development not far from its current Fremont neighborhood location. Brinc is taking over 35,000 square feet …

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Arm is releasing its first in-house chip in its 35-year history | TechCrunch

Arm is releasing its first in-house chip in its 35-year history | TechCrunch

Storied semiconductor and software company Arm Holdings is starting to make its own chips after nearly 36 years of licensing its designs to companies like Nvidia and Apple. At an event Tuesday in San Francisco, the company revealed the Arm AGI CPU, a production-ready chip built for running inference in an AI data center. The UK-based company developed the chip …

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OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well | TechCrunch

OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT into an e-commerce hub aren’t exactly panning out—at least, not yet. In an announcement on Tuesday, the company revealed that it’s pivoting away from a recently launched feature that let users buy items directly from the chatbot’s interface. OpenAI originally launched buying capabilities in ChatGPT last year—positioning itself as a “shopping assistant” that could connect …

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AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT

AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT

Who among us hasn’t tormented over the burden of having to exit an AI app to check the weather? Well, I haven’t, and I’m guessing you haven’t either. But AccuWeather has a solution regardless. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a ChatGPT app to spare… someone that pain. Snark aside, there may be a few niche situations where this provides …

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Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more | TechCrunch

Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more | TechCrunch

Google unveiled three Gemini-powered features for Google TV on Tuesday, including AI-powered visual responses, the ability to deep dive into virtually any topic, and narrated overviews of sports games. A particularly noteworthy addition is the introduction of visual responses. For example, requesting the current score for the Warriors game will result in live scorecards, alongside information on where to view …

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