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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Lets You Star in AI Videos—With Your Own Voice and Sound Effects

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Lets You Star in AI Videos—With Your Own Voice and Sound Effects

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash OpenAI just launched something that feels pulled straight from a sci-fi movie—and you can try it right from your iPhone. On Tuesday, OpenAI unveiled Sora 2, its second-gen video synthesis model that not only generates hyper-realistic AI videos but now adds synced sound, speech, and even your own voice […]

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The SMS Scam You Just Got May Have Started in a Dusty Industrial Closet Using a Router No One Secured

The SMS Scam You Just Got May Have Started in a Dusty Industrial Closet Using a Router No One Secured

Photo by wei on Unsplash What do traffic lights, power meters, and phishing texts have in common? If you’ve gotten one of those shady SMS messages lately — you know, the kind telling you to “verify your identity” or “log into your government account” — there’s a good chance it came from a beat-up, forgotten

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Why iRobot’s Co-Founder Stays 10 Feet Away from Walking Robots — And Maybe You Should Too

Why iRobot’s Co-Founder Stays 10 Feet Away from Walking Robots — And Maybe You Should Too

Photo by Richard Bell on Unsplash Rodney Brooks has spent decades building robots. He helped create the Roomba and led robotics research at MIT. So, when he says you probably shouldn’t get within three meters (about 10 feet) of a walking humanoid robot, it’s worth paying attention. In a recent blog post titled “Why Today’s

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Is AI Too Big To Fail? A Live Chat Looks at Whether the Bubble’s About to Burst

Is AI Too Big To Fail? A Live Chat Looks at Whether the Bubble’s About to Burst

Photo by DL314 Lin on Unsplash The AI boom has been impossible to ignore. From viral tools like ChatGPT to massive investments totaling in the hundreds of billions, artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere—and growing fast. But a growing number of voices are starting to ask a harder question: Are we in a bubble that’s

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ICE Wants to Watch Your Social Media 24/7: Here’s What Their New Surveillance Plan Could Mean

ICE Wants to Watch Your Social Media 24/7: Here’s What Their New Surveillance Plan Could Mean

Image by Lianhao Qu on Unsplash U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is pitching a bold new plan that feels like it came straight out of a dystopian novel—except it’s real, and it’s happening soon. ICE is looking to build a round-the-clock social media surveillance team. According to federal documents, they want to hire nearly

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A 2002 GameCube Classic Just Got AI-Powered Dialogue—and the Villagers Are Planning a Raccoon Rebellion

A 2002 GameCube Classic Just Got AI-Powered Dialogue—and the Villagers Are Planning a Raccoon Rebellion

Image by Ethan Currier on Unsplash What happens when a sleepy video game town wakes up… and realizes it’s trapped in debt? Animal Crossing fans know the drill: move into a cute little town, furnish your home, and pay off an ever-growing mortgage to the ever-smiling raccoon landlord, Tom Nook. But what if the villagers

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Microsoft and OpenAI Push to Rewrite Their Billion-Dollar Partnership as Both Companies Chase the Future of AI

Microsoft and OpenAI Push to Rewrite Their Billion-Dollar Partnership as Both Companies Chase the Future of AI

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash Something’s shifting between two of the biggest players in AI—and it’s not just code. On Thursday, OpenAI and Microsoft announced they’ve signed a non-binding agreement to revisit the terms of their high-stakes partnership. That means they’re not just working side by side anymore—they’re renegotiating what that relationship should even

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A Critical Security Flaw in Passwordstate Could Expose Admin Vaults. Here’s What You Need to Know

A Critical Security Flaw in Passwordstate Could Expose Admin Vaults. Here’s What You Need to Know

Photo by GuerrillaBuzz on Unsplash If your company uses Passwordstate to manage sensitive credentials, there’s an urgent update you need to install right now. The team behind Passwordstate, Click Studios, has just released a patch for a high-severity security vulnerability. And this one’s serious. Let’s break it down. A Simple URL Could Let Hackers In

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Google Sounds Alarm on Widening Data Breach Tied to Salesloft’s Drift AI—User Tokens Might Be Compromised

Google Sounds Alarm on Widening Data Breach Tied to Salesloft’s Drift AI—User Tokens Might Be Compromised

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash If your company uses Salesloft’s Drift AI chatbot, Google has a serious heads-up for you: It’s time to treat all your security tokens as possibly compromised. That’s the newest twist in an ongoing security incident that just got a lot messier. What started as a breach affecting some Salesforce

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Inside Meta’s AI Turmoil: Big Names, Bigger Egos, and a Billion-Dollar Bet on Superintelligence

Inside Meta’s AI Turmoil: Big Names, Bigger Egos, and a Billion-Dollar Bet on Superintelligence

Image by fabio on Unsplash Meta hired top AI talent to supercharge its future. But weeks in, some are quitting, others are clashing, and the shake-ups just keep coming. Meta’s bold bet on AI is hitting turbulence—fast. Just days after joining the company, Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of ChatGPT, almost jumped ship back to OpenAI. He

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