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• OpenAI pivots from a broad focus to prioritize key projects, shelving the Sora AI video app.
• CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo, is pushing OpenAI to focus more.
• Surging AI compute demand is forcing OpenAI to prioritize revenue-generating projects like ChatGPT.

Earlier this month, Fidji Simo laid out a sharper strategy for OpenAI: the

A New Mexico jury found Meta liable Tuesday for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children.

Meta has been ordered to pay the maximum penalties for each violation of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws, amounting to $375 million.

"Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees, and lied to the public about

It's about to get a lot easier for creators on Facebook and Instagram to push products to their followers. Meta will now allow creators to include clickable shopping links for products directly in their Reels.

Brand partnerships and affiliate links, in which creators earn a portion of sales generated by their recommendations, are central to how creators earn money from Facebook and Instagram. But

• Meta announced a slew of new shopping and advertising features to woo brands and creators.
• The tech giant is bringing more affiliate marketing tools to both Facebook and Instagram.
• It's also rolling out AI-powered tools for brands.

Meta is diving headfirst back into social shopping — with an AI twist.

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TL;DR: Voibe AI voice dictation is $49.99 (reg. $149) offering a faster way to turn speech into text on Mac.

• OpenAI and Disney are ending their partnership that could have brought AI-generated videos to Disney+.
• Disney+ and Hulu have seen their US viewership share stagnate in recent years.
• Disney's new CEO will need to hunt for other ways to boost engagement.

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The two siblings had come to New York for their father's funeral. They then found themselves stuck at the city's LaGuardia Airport.

Princess Ivie, a nursing student in Texas, and her brother, Prince Eweka, were sitting in the baggage drop-off zone Tuesday morning, waiting to reschedule their flights. Ivie had

A jury in New Mexico has found Meta liable for violating the state's consumer protection laws in a high-profile civil trial over child exploitation and other safety issues. One day after closing arguments in the weeks-long trial concluded, the jury ruled against Meta on every count and ordered the company to pay $375 million. 

The case was brought by New Mexico's attorney general in 2023 and

Pour one out for Sora, the groundbreaking — but quickly overtaken — video generation app from OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT.

Born Dec. 2024, and baptized by a billion-dollar Disney deal a year later, Sora was axed by OpenAI on Tuesday — and the Disney deal was trashed alongside it.

"We're saying goodbye to the Sora app," the Sora team announced Tuesday via the OpenAI X feed. "To everyone who

• A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for failing to protect kids from sexual exploitation.
• The jury approved a $375 million fine for Meta.
• Meta said it disagrees with the