OpenAI just gave up on Sora and its billion-dollar Disney deal
A frame from a Sora 2-generated video. | Image: OpenAI On Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI announced "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the video generation tool that it launched at the end of 2024, and centered in a massive licensing deal with Disney only a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal reported
First-ever American AI Jobs Risk Index released by Tufts University
[First-ever American AI Jobs Risk Index released by Tufts University - The Brighter Side of News](https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/first-ever-american-ai-jobs-risk-index-released-by-tufts-university/) About 9.3 million U.S. jobs could be displaced within the next two to five years. Depending o
Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model
Apple Can ‘Distill’ Google’s Big Gemini Model The Information
Anthropic’s Claude Code gets ‘safer’ auto mode
Anthropic has launched an "auto mode" for Claude Code, a new tool that lets AI make permissions-level decisions on users' behalf. The company says the feature offers vibe coders a safer alternative between constant handholding or giving the model dangerous levels of autonomy. Claude Code is capabl
Bernie Sanders and AOC propose a ban on data center construction
The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model
Google is expanding the capabilities of its Lyria 3 music-making AI, enabling it to create tracks up to three minutes long and from within multiple other Google Products. Until now, Lyria had been limited to 30-second clips. Lyria 3 Pro not only increases the maximum length sixfold, it also allows t
Reddit accounts with ‘fishy’ bot-like behavior will soon need to prove they’re human
Reddit is taking new steps to identify bots on the platform - a process that may require some users to confirm that they're human. In a post on Wednesday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman writes that the company will introduce a labeling system for accounts registered as bots, and ask users with "automated"
Intel will sell a cheap GPU with 32GB VRAM next week
It seems Intel will release a GPU with 32 GB of VRAM on March 31, which they would sell directly for $949. Bandwidth would be 608 GB/s (a little less than an NVIDIA 5070), and wattage would be 290W. Probably/hopefully very good for local AI and models like Qwen 3.5 27B at 4 bit quantization. I'm
Figure's Humanoid Robot Walks into the White House to give a Presentation!
Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
For the first time in its 35-year history, Arm has manufactured its own chip, expanding beyond its long-standing business model of licensing chip designs to companies like Apple and Nvidia. The article Arm breaks from its licensing-only model with first in-house chip built for AI data centers appea
How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports
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I ran 3,360 safety tests on GPT-4o, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini
I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced
Flighty Airports
Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?
Show HN: Τ³-Bench is out – can agents handle complex docs and live calls?
TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Intel launches Arc Pro B70 and B65 with 32GB GDDR6
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SWE is past the elbow of the exponential kickoff. I watched it happen in real time. Other fields are next.
Two years ago I was writing every line of code. A year ago I was prompting and reviewing. Six months ago I was running multi-turn loops manually — plan, implement, verify, fix, repeat. Last week I ran 63 automated steps on a complex codebase and walked away. Came back to 20,000 lines of working code