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OpenAI Launches Sora 2 and a Consent-Gated Sora iOS App

OpenAI released Sora 2, a text-to-video-and-audio model focused on physical plausibility, multi-shot controllability, and synchronized dialogue The OpenAI team has also launched a new invite-only Sora iOS app (U.S. and Canada first) that enables social creation, remixing, and consent-controlled “cameos”…

Imgur is blocking users in the UK

The image-sharing site Imgur has shut off access to UK users after the country’s data watchdog warned the platform of a fine, as reported earlier by the BBC. In a post on Imgur’s help page, Imgur confirms that users in…

Perplexity Launches Search API to Power Next-Gen AI Applications

Perplexity has introduced the Search API, opening up access to the same infrastructure that underpins its public answer engine. With coverage of hundreds of billions of webpages and infrastructure tuned for AI-heavy workloads, the new API is aimed at developers…

Microsoft is giving Copilot AI faces you can chat with

Microsoft is trying to make Copilot more approachable by giving the AI assistant an animated face to talk with. The experimental “Portraits” feature in Copilot Labs is currently available in the US, UK, and Canada, and provides 40 stylized human…