OpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UK

OpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UK

OpenAI is finally making its video generation model, Sora, available to users in the European Union, the U.K., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The company said on Friday that ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers in these regions will be able to create videos using the model. The AI startup first unveiled Sora in February 2024, … Read more

OnePlus Watch 3 pre-orders are arriving with an apology letter

OnePlus Watch 3 pre-orders are arriving with an apology letter

What you need to know OnePlus is taking an extra step to communicate its Watch 3 error with early buyers. The company is including a physical, printed letter with Watch 3 pre-order shipments explaining the situation and customer options. Buyers can either keep the watch, or return it. The company is working on producing new … Read more

Samsung details One UI 7 features Galaxy Buds 3 owners will love

Samsung details One UI 7 features Galaxy Buds 3 owners will love

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung has detailed a list of incoming One UI 7 features for Galaxy Buds 3 owners. Features include smarter Quick Settings panel integrations and per-app settings. There’s still no word on when One UI 7 will arrive. While we eagerly await the release of Samsung’s One UI 7, the … Read more

Viral Video Shows AIs Conversing In Their Own Language

Viral Video Shows AIs Conversing In Their Own Language

Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation. In the video, the two agents were set up … Read more

Ascending Levels of Nerd – O’Reilly

Ascending Levels of Nerd – O’Reilly

In developing the content for our May 8 virtual conference Coding with AI: The End of Software Development as We Know It, we couldn’t help but want to feature Harper Reed, whose recent post “My LLM Codegen Workflow ATM” so perfectly encapsulates the kind of experimentation that developers are going through as they come to … Read more

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft

Screenshot showing Copilot continues to serve tools Microsoft took action to have removed from GitHub. Credit: Lasso Lasso ultimately determined that Microsoft’s fix involved cutting off access to a special Bing user interface, once available at cc.bingj.com, to the public. The fix, however, didn’t appear to clear the private pages from the cache itself. As … Read more

Meta to Release Standalone AI App to Compete With ChatGPT

Meta to Release Standalone AI App to Compete With ChatGPT

Facebook parent company Meta is planning to release a standalone AI app that would compete with products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot, reports CNBC. The upcoming AI app will join Meta’s other apps, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Recent news has also suggested that Meta could soon release a Reels app, breaking … Read more

ChatGPT Gets Another Upgrade With GPT-4.5

ChatGPT Gets Another Upgrade With GPT-4.5

OpenAI has released a ton of improvements for its chatbot, ChatGPT, in recent months, but it’s been a while since we’ve had a core model update. While we await for GPT-5, which OpenAI seems pretty ambitious with, the company has launched a mid-step upgrade in the meantime—GPT-4.5. OpenAI has officially launched GPT-4.5, its newest and … Read more

The Challenges and Upsides of Using AI in Scientific Writing

The Challenges and Upsides of Using AI in Scientific Writing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are the author’s own and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum, The Institute or IEEE. Scientific writing is at a pivotal stage, driven by artificial intelligence as a disruptor and enabler. Academics, publishers, and policymakers are attempting to weigh the value of using AI responsibly … Read more