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OpenAI's Sora AI Video App Hits 1 Million Downloads

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Sora, OpenAI's app for creating AI-generated video, has been downloaded more than one million times. OpenAI's Sora lead, Bill Peebles, shared the information on social media network X last night.

OpenAI Tells EU Regulators They Should Facilitate Competition in AI Markets

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OpenAI told representatives of the European Commission that the company faces difficulties in competing with “entrenched companies” in digital markets and that regulators should continue to be vigilant to facilitate competition in the…

OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

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As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

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PayPal's Quiet AI Comeback — Could It Be Powering OpenAI's Shopping Push?

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PayPal's recent rally and product rollouts fuel speculation about its role in AI-driven shopping experiences. CEO Alex Chriss is betting big on AI.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman prefers having a dominant TSMC over Intel's foundry ambitions on AI chip production

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly urged TSMC to ramp capacity, signaling a short-term preference for the Taiwanese foundry’s existing nodes over Intel’s nascent foundry program as AI chip demand soars.

Top Hollywood agencies slam OpenAI's Sora as 'exploitation' and a risk to clients

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CAA, which represents artists including Doja Cat, Scarlett Johansson, and Tom Hanks, said OpenAI was "dismissing creators' rights."

OpenAI says new GPT-5 models show major drop in political bias

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Less than 0.01% of ChatGPT responses show political bias in real-world usage, while OpenAI's latest GPT-5 models demonstrate improved neutrality on controversial topics.

OpenAI’s Sora Video App Now Averaging 200K Downloads Per Day, Despite Invite-Only Access

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OpenAI seems to have hit a home run with Sora, its new app for AI-generated videos, judging by the app's accelerating download trend. To wit, Bill Peebles, the head of Sora at OpenAI, noted today that the app has hit 1 million downloads in…

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Microsoft Bets Big on Healthcare AI as It Looks Beyond OpenAI Partnership

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Microsoft is making a major push into healthcare AI, aiming to establish itself as a leader in the field and reduce its reliance on partner OpenAI.

OpenAI's TikTok of AI slop hit one million downloads faster than ChatGPT

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Sora, OpenAI's app and social network for AI-generated videos, has been downloaded over one million times, according to Sora head Bill Peebles. The app reached one million downloads in less than five days, Peebles says, "even faster than…

3 things we learned from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about his deal strategy this week

OpenAI's partnerships have pushed the value of its dealmaking to $1 trillion this year alone, and CEO Sam Altman doesn't seem to be finished.

Inside the battle in legal tech to 'OpenAI-proof' its business

OpenAI's own use of AI put the SaaS market on notice. Legal tech companies are confident they're safe — for now.

Motion Picture Association Says OpenAI Must Prevent Copyright Infringment on Sora 2

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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has called on OpenAI to address what it describes as widespread copyright infringement stemming from the company’s new video generation model, Sora 2.

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OpenAI complains to EU that Apple, Microsoft & Google may hamper growth

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The ChatGPT maker has told a European Commission deputy that despite being hosted by Apple, Microsoft, and Google App Stores, US Big Tech's dominance in the technology world is a problem for OpenAI.

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Razorpay, NPCI and OpenAI Test Agentic Payments in India

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Razorpay said Thursday (Oct. 9) that it collaborated with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), creator of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), and OpenAI to launch an “AI-powered conversational payment experience” in India.…

OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads

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OpenAI’s social AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached over 1 million downloads in fewer than five days since its launch. That’s according to Sora head Bill Peebles, who said on Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than…

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap calls the AI giant the 'world's most active Slack user'

Brad Lightcap said that OpenAI was "the world's most active users of Slack internally." OpenAI recently launched a workplace suite.

Sora by OpenAI Crosses 1 Million Downloads in Under Five Days

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Sora, OpenAI’s video-generation app, hit one million downloads in under five days, faster than ChatGPT’s launch.