In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We saw a demo of the new AI system powering Anduril’s vision for war —James O’Donnell One afternoon in late November, I visited a weapons test site in the foothills east of San…
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. The AI sector is plagued by a lack of competition and a lot of deceit—or at least that’s one way to interpret the latest flurry of actions taken in Washington. Last…
One afternoon in late November, I visited a weapons test site in the foothills east of San Clemente, California operated by Anduril, a maker of AI-powered drones and missiles that recently announced a partnership with OpenAI. I went there to witness a new system it’s expanding today, which allows external parties to tap into its…
Today, OpenAI released its video generation model Sora to the public. The announcement comes on the fifth day of the company’s “shipmas” event, a twelve-day long marathon of tech releases and demos. Here’s what you should know—and how you can use the video model right now. What is Sora? Sora is a powerful AI video…