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OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date.   

"We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand


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The Val Verde school district had an unusual arrangement with a school in China.
  • Business Insider investigated ties between a California district, a school in China, and education officials.
  • The county education department then referred the matter to federal prosecutors.
  • A scathing audit of the unusual arrangement was released last week.

Federal prosecutors opened an


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A TSA agent watches passengers queue to go through security at New York's LaGuardia airport.
  • TSA callout rates at some major airports are up to 40%, while smaller airports remain unscathed.
  • Employees have missed weeks of pay due to the partial government shutdown.
  • Here's why security lines at some airports are worse than others.

Atlanta TSA officer Aaron Barker knows that for


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The author and her husband have three kids under 3.
  • Raising three kids under three left us exhausted and emotionally disconnected.
  • We started quietly keeping score of who was doing more at home.
  • Saying "thank you" daily helped us feel like teammates again.

Recently, due to day care closures, I spent nine hours at home with the kids (without setting foot outside) while my husband


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OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its AI text-to-video generator.
  • OpenAI announced it is discontinuing its viral video app Sora.
  • The company plans to focus on robotics to solve "real-world, physical tasks," a spokesperson said.
  • Sora's demise followed its lead staffer's description of the project's economics as "unsustainable."

OpenAI is pulling the


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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to accede to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's demands, which eventually led to the legal fight.
  • Anthropic has asked a judge to block the Pentagon from labeling it a supply chain risk.
  • The label could prevent Anthropic from getting lucrative government contracts.
  • On Tuesday, a federal judge called the Department of War's label "troubling."

A federal judge


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The author realized that using a CPAP machine was helping her.
  • I resisted my sleep apnea diagnosis and hated using my CPAP machine.
  • I avoided the full-face mask because I thought it meant failure.
  • Once I found the right mask, my sleep and symptoms improved.

I'd done everything I could think of to not be diagnosed with sleep apnea. Yet here I was at 10:30 p.m., slamming shut the


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Regardless of the circumstances around its cancelation, the latest 'Star Trek' series has been robbed of the chance almost every other show in the franchise has been given.