Sora 2, Vibes, Feed: How much AI video do we need?

Mashable : Business, Environment, Technology
Sam Altman looking pensive before an OpenAI logo.

Never mind the debate over whether OpenAI's GPT-5 release is disappointing, or whether it can revitalize the

Jane Goodall, chimpanzee researcher and conservationist, is dead at 91

Tech Insider : Business, Environment
jane goodall chimpanzee kenya 1997
Jane Goodall shares a play with Bahati, a 3 year-old female chimpanzee at the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, 110 miles north of Nairobi, Sunday December 6, 1997.

AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju

US government takes equity stake in one of the world’s largest lithium mines

The Verge : Environment, Business
A view of hills and cliffs covered with grass and shrubs.
In windswept, remote Thacker Pass in the far northern reaches of Nevada, a massive lithium mine has drawn impassioned protest from local Indigenous peoples, ranchers, and environmentalists.

Hegseth's speech is another sign that workplace loyalty is dead

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaking at a podium with the American flag in the background
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at a Marine Corps base in Virginia

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Amazons newest Echo smart speakers have a Death Star-like design: Pre-order now

Mashable : Environment, Style
echo studio and echo dot max on display in new york city

Amazon revealed its newest generation of Echo smart speakers today at an event in New York City, and Mashable was able to briefly demo them.

Athletes are a key hiring pool at Goldman Sachs — three employees from D-1 college programs explain why

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Ryan Held swimming
Ryan Held, analyst on Goldman's cyber risk team.

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4 work tasks to automate with AI and the steps to make it happen

Mashable : Business, Environment
An overhead-perspective illustration of a person using a laptop.

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly leveraged in workplaces nationwide. Those who make use of the tools available to them have the opportunity to streamline their work – sometimes even automating basic tasks.

A Saturn moons ocean may have the chemistry to start life

Mashable : Environment
An artist's rendering of Enceladus' plumes

A moon of Saturn has a surprising variety of carbon-based molecules that look like they were made in its hidden ocean — the kind of environment where life might begin, new research reveals.

What happens when security cameras hit the right note?

Mashable : Environment, Technology
A person raises a tennis ball in a dark room, seen on a screen with red boxes highlighting the object.

What does an array of seemingly random items — a coffee cup, a tennis ball, a fire extinguisher — have in common? What might such objects, if they could speak, or even sing, have to say?

My son and I moved from the US to Spain. We tried out 3 cities before settling into a place that felt right.

Tech Insider : Travel, Business, Environment
The author and her so at a cafe in Barcelona.
During COVID, remote learning instruction was done in Catalan, which is not one of the languages the author or her son speak, she said.

Courtesy of Katia Rossi

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