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OpenAI’s premier video generator Sora shocked the world on Thursday with worryingly realistic videos, but the model seems even better at creating video game worlds.

• Microsoft is adding a new button to Windows PC keyboards.
• The button will allow users to access Microsoft's AI companion, Copilot.
• The company has already incorporated Copilot into Bing and Office 365.

Microsoft is adding an AI button to Windows.

If you’re not breaking laws or causing harm, it’s really up to you what you look at on the internet—we won’t judge. But there might be occasions when you don’t want someone in close proximity to see the contents of your open tabs, and that’s where a browser panic button, capable of shutting down your browser with a…

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Microsoft Copilot, the company’s AI-fueled workflow companion, is getting an upgrade.

For 55 hours and 32 minutes, Emmett Shear steered the world’s leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI, through its largest crisis ever. That chapter of Shear’s life and OpenAI’s history has now come to a close.

There are only a handful of trusted end-to-end encrypted email providers.

It’s a rough day for tech workers, with layoffs at both LinkedIn and the recently-sold Bandcamp.

• A new report from Politico suggests a “billionaire-backed network” of Silicon Valley-linked AI “advisors” are working to control the regulatory agenda in Washington D.C.