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The satellite-to-phone service T-Mobile and Starlink first announced back in 2022 has gotten a lot closer to deployment.

Earlier this year OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video AI model, showing off detailed scenes and complex camera motion from relatively simple prompts. It's been radio silence since then, but the company recently granted artists free early access to the tool for testing.

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