A coordinated, journalist‑led audit led by the BBC and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has delivered a blunt verdict: when asked about current events, widely used AI assistants routinely produce summaries that are incomplete, misattributed, or simply wrong — and Google’s Gemini emerged as...
OpenAI’s invite‑only video app Sora exploded onto the iOS charts in its first week, pulling in an estimated 627,000 iOS downloads across the U.S. and Canada and briefly topping Apple’s App Store — a launch velocity that, by Appfigures’ estimates, was nearly on par with ChatGPT’s launch footprint...
OpenAI’s new Sora app rocketed into the public eye this week, racking up tens of thousands of installs in its first 48 hours and briefly reaching the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store — a debut that both confirms strong consumer demand for AI-generated short video and exposes immediate operational...
Global Objects is using a mix of cinema-grade capture rigs, cloud-scale compute, and NVIDIA-accelerated tooling to assemble what it calls a marketplace-sized library of photoreal, production-ready 3D objects—digital twins of real props, products, and environments intended for film, XR...
OpenAI’s new short‑form video app, Sora, rocketed into the U.S. App Store’s Top Overall chart and reached No. 3 within 48 hours of its invite‑only iOS debut — a milestone that underlines how rapidly consumer interest can concentrate around a polished AI-native creative product.
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OpenAI’s new short-form video app, Sora, rocketed into the U.S. App Store top ranks within days of its invite-only iOS debut, registering a rapid surge in downloads and igniting a debate about consumer appetite for AI-generated video, platform safety, and the future of social media-style...
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More than a third of New Zealand retail investors now say they use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to inform their investment decisions — and a large majority report being satisfied with the outcomes — a shift that is simultaneously pragmatic and precarious for markets...
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