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OpenAI sets two-stage Sora shutdown with app closing April 2026 and API following in September

OpenAI is killing Sora in two stages. The web and app version goes dark on April 26, 2026, with the Sora API following on September 24, 2026. OpenAI is urging users to download their content before ...
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Meta acqui-hires Dreamer's entire team to bolster its lagging AI agent ambitions

Dreamer, an AI startup focused on personal software creation, is joining Meta Superintelligence Labs with its entire team. Co-founder David Singleton announced the move on X. Dreamer lets users build ...
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Google Deepmind's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite generates websites almost in real time

Google Deepmind's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite can render websites almost in real time. The company published a new pseudo-browser demo: type in a prompt for the page you want, and it gets built live right ...
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Meta tests new way of working with "AI-native pods" to boost productivity

Meta is reorganizing parts of its Reality Labs division into so-called "AI-native pods" as part of a pilot program, Business Insider reports, citing an internal memo. Around 1,000 employees in the ...
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AI in practice

Read full article about: Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork more broadly and lets AI models check each other's work Microsoft's "Researcher" tool now has a "Critique" function where one AI model ...
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Read full article about: OpenAI's Sora burned a million dollars a day while losing half its users in record time OpenAI's Sora app saw rapidly declining usage while costing the company around one ...
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Meta Neuroscientist King: "Some of the concepts like reasoning may need to be re-evaluated"

The neuroscientist Jean-Rémi King leads the Brain & AI team in Meta’s AI division. In an interview with The Decoder, he discusses the connection between AI and neuroscience, the challenges of ...
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ChatGPT might be draining your brain, MIT warns - what ‘cognitive debt’ means for you

A new MIT study suggests that using AI writing assistants like ChatGPT can lead to what researchers call "cognitive debt" - a state where outsourcing mental effort weakens learning and critical ...
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Claude now available directly in PowerPoint for Pro users

Anthropic brings Claude's PowerPoint integration to Pro subscribers. Max, Team, and Enterprise customers get access too. The feature is currently in beta as a Research Preview. Claude can create, edit ...
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Microsoft expands its SLM lineup with new multimodal and mini Phi-4 models

Microsoft has added two new models to its Phi small language model family: Phi-4-multimodal, which can handle audio, images and text simultaneously, and Phi-4-mini, a streamlined model focused on text ...
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Malicious skills turn AI agent OpenClaw into a malware delivery system

Hundreds of skills for the AI agent OpenClaw were infected with malware, after attackers disguised Trojans and data-stealing software as useful extensions on the ClawHub platform. Following the ...
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"Cat attack" on reasoning model shows how important context engineering is

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