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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…

Artificial intelligencemodels are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best— and who decides that?Arena, formerly LM Arena, hasemergedas the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from aUCBerkeley PhD research…

Social network X on Monday announced the introduction of a new “Paid Partnership” label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they’re advertisements. The feature could help improve creators’ authenticity, so fans know when a product recommendation is an original sentiment, versus a paid sponsorship, while also complying with regulations that say ads…

Firefighters have tackled a small blaze at the site of a coastal wildfire that burned for five days on the Isle of Wight. The fire at Headon Warren, where campfire remains were found by crews, first started on 23 July – it wiped out nine hectares (22.2 acres) of heathland. Hampshire & Isle of Wight…

Anthropic is overhauling Claude’s so-called “soul doc.” The new missive is a 57-page document titled “Claude’s Constitution,” which details “Anthropic’s intentions for the model’s values and behavior,” aimed not at outside readers but the model itself. The document is designed to spell out Claude’s “ethical character” and “core identity,” including how it should balance conflicting…