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OpenAI's AI model and app for generating realistic video from text prompts, available via web, mobile app, and API.
OpenAI is in talks to give a filmmaker-focused startup access to its shelved Sora video model, The Information reported Oct. 12. No fee or term has been reported, so licensing is one reading of the talks and an equity-for-access swap is another.
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Karandeep Anand takes over Disney's technology on 2 October, about a year after Disney's lawyers told the company he ran to strip its characters out of user-made chatbots. Several of his engineers come with him.
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Singapore's three big banks fell 4.29% to 5.16% on Thursday as a sell-off sparked by Citi's OCBC downgrade to sell ran a second day. DBS, still a Citi buy, dropped more than OCBC, a sign investors are pricing funding costs and valuations common to all three.
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OpenAI's deprecations page lists about fifty model snapshots, GPT-4 among them, with shutdown dates between September 24 and December 11, 2026. How each team's code fails on those dates depends on whether it pinned a snapshot or called an alias.
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Google charges $0.05 a second, or $3 a minute, for Veo 3.1 Lite video and made Vids generation free on the day OpenAI's Sora API shut down. Teams losing Sora can budget against that rate. Google has not published the free tier's allowance, and Decrypt's test of it produced only 720p.
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Relay stopped operating on Monday after OpenAI and Google added the same workflow-agent capability to their own products. Two of the other four closures in the same account went the same way, and the 42% failure figure quoted alongside them counts something else.
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Relay shut down on Monday after five years, outpaced by automation OpenAI and Google built into their own tools. The other entries on the list failed on cost, retention, privacy or engineering, and S&P Global counts competition as one abandonment cause in five.
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The generative feature inside Google Earth lasted about a day before the outcry pulled it, but the verification checklists that name Google Earth as ground truth were written for a product nobody could prompt.
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The capability claim is specific enough for a product team to test, with one image going in and up to a minute of 1440p video plus 3D splats coming out, though the camera-path win rests on a blind human study World Labs ran itself.
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No agreement has closed, the Los Angeles Times reports, because of legal complexity and how talent and unions would react, which puts the gate on production-grade generative video in the clearance department rather than the research lab.
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Fourteen executives gone in 2026, a listing pushed to 2027, and a Stargate bill averaging $125 billion a year. The headcount is noise. The seats are the story.
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A new paper says Sora, Genie 3, JEPA and Marble carry no mental state at all. Its own benchmark, 420 of 448 scenes without motion, tests language models instead.
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OpenAI's president has absorbed product strategy and the whole scaling arm while his title stayed the same. Altman is still CEO; the operating decisions are no longer his.
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The memorandum covers every ByteDance AI model, including those in CapCut and Dreamina. The terms are undisclosed, so builders get a rulebook they cannot inspect.
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