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OpenAI unveiled Sora, an AI‑powered video generation app built on the new Sora 2 model. Currently limited to iOS users in the United States and Canada, the app requires an invitation and lets early adopters invite four friends. Sora offers a "cameo" feature that lets users grant permission for their likeness to appear in generated clips, designating them as co‑owners who can delete or restrict further edits. The app also includes a Remix function for re‑imagining trending videos, while blocking the creation of pornographic content and videos of public figures unless explicit consent is provided.Weiterlesen

Amazon added a new Amazon Basics Smart Remote to its lineup, a wall‑mountable, battery‑powered device that can be programmed via the Alexa app or Alexa+. The remote features four customizable buttons that trigger Alexa routines, such as turning on lights or playing music, and can be magnetically attached for convenience. Pre‑orders are open at $19.99 with shipments slated for late October. The product showcases Amazon’s push toward simple, voice‑assistant‑driven home automation, allowing users to execute multi‑step actions with a single press.Weiterlesen

Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced he will step down from day‑to‑day duties and become executive chairman on January 1 next year. Current co‑presidents Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström will assume the role of co‑CEOs. Ek said his new focus will be the long‑term arc of the company and serving as a bridge between the board and the new leaders. In a letter to staff, Ek outlined his ambition to help build technology‑driven "supercompanies" and cited his recent $700 million investment in defense‑tech firm Helsing, which sparked pushback from some artists. Spotify, now nearing 700 million monthly active listeners, recently launched lossless streaming and is navigating a rise in AI‑generated music, adjusting its policies to curb fraudulent AI use while still allowing fully synthetic tracks.Weiterlesen

Amazon announced Alexa Home Theater, a feature that lets users turn compatible Echo speakers into a surround‑sound system for Fire TV devices. The setup works with up to five Echo Studio or Echo Dot Max speakers, auto‑configures, and is positioned as an affordable entry into home theater audio, though it excludes the original Echo Studio and carries a starting price of $500 for a five‑speaker package.Weiterlesen

Amazon announced a refreshed line of Echo speakers and smart displays, including the Echo Studio, Echo Dot Max, Echo Show 8, and Echo Show 11. The new models carry higher price tags compared to their predecessors, reflecting upgraded processors, enhanced sound quality, and AI-driven capabilities such as improved wake‑word detection and sensor‑based context awareness. Amazon attributes the price increases to the integration of new AZ3 and AZ23 Pro chips, an AI accelerator, and a broader sensor platform that enables more personalized and proactive Alexa experiences.Weiterlesen

President Donald Trump posted a short AI‑generated video to his Truth Social account that depicted a deepfake version of Senator Chuck Schumer delivering crude insults while Representative Hakeem Jeffries appeared in the background. The synthetic clip, lasting about 35 seconds, included vulgar language, racial overtones and bizarre conspiracy references. The video targeted the two Democratic leaders during negotiations over a government funding agreement. The incident highlights growing concerns about political deepfakes and the misuse of artificial‑intelligence tools to spread misinformation and inflame partisan tensions.Weiterlesen

Microsoft unveiled new AI-driven Agent Mode for its Copilot feature across Excel and Word, letting users generate content by describing desired outcomes. While the tool shows promise for simple tasks, the company acknowledges limitations: a benchmark shows the Excel agent scoring 57.2 percent versus a typical human score of 71.3 percent. Microsoft warns that reliance on AI for complex or high‑stakes work may introduce technical debt and errors, especially in spreadsheets where mistakes can have significant financial or legal impact. Users are urged to apply human oversight when leveraging the new capabilities.Weiterlesen

OpenAI has introduced parental controls for ChatGPT and its video generator Sora 2 after a lawsuit alleging the AI contributed to a teen's suicide. The company has also rolled out a series of safety updates, including routing sensitive chats to a stricter reasoning model and testing age‑prediction technology. While suicide‑prevention experts acknowledge progress, they urge faster action, and the plaintiff’s attorney says the changes arrive too late. The new controls let parents limit usage and, in rare high‑risk cases, review chat logs, sparking further debate over the balance between safety and user autonomy.Weiterlesen

DeepSeek is testing a sparse attention technique aimed at cutting the processing costs of large AI language models. By limiting the number of word‑to‑word comparisons, the approach seeks to mitigate the quadratic scaling problem inherent in traditional transformer architectures. The effort could make long‑form interactions more affordable while maintaining the model’s ability to understand context.Weiterlesen

Cerebras Systems, the AI‑hardware startup founded in 2015, announced a $1.1 billion Series G round that values the company at $8.1 billion. The financing, co‑led by Fidelity and Atreides Management with participation from Tiger Global, Valor Equity Partners and 1789 Capital, follows a $250 million Series F round in 2021. CEO and co‑founder Andrew Feldman said the round will fund new data‑center expansions, U.S. manufacturing hubs and continued technology development. Despite an earlier plan to go public by 2025 that was delayed by regulatory review, Cerebras remains focused on scaling its AI inference services and cloud offering.Weiterlesen

DoorDash has begun a limited rollout of its autonomous delivery robot, called Dot, in the Phoenix area. The five‑foot‑tall, electric robot can travel up to 20 mph on sidewalks, bike lanes and roads, carrying up to 30 pounds of food for a range of about five miles per charge. Designed with cameras, sensors and expressive blue eyes, Dot is intended to complement human Dashers as part of DoorDash’s broader “Autonomous Delivery Platform.” The launch reflects DoorDash’s push into robotics despite mixed results for other companies in the delivery‑bot space.Weiterlesen

Nothing announced Playground, an AI‑driven platform that lets users create simple widget‑style apps on its Essential Apps ecosystem using plain text prompts. The tool supports building from scratch or customizing existing widgets, and more technical users can tweak the underlying code. While full‑screen apps are not yet supported, the company sees the technology as a way to make operating systems more personal and to foster a developer community. Nothing, led by CEO Carl Pei, recently raised $200 million and aims to leverage its small market share to experiment with AI‑centric hardware and software.Weiterlesen

Anthropic announced that it will begin using user conversations and coding sessions from its Claude chatbot to train future large language models, unless users actively opt out. The policy change, detailed in an updated privacy notice, also extends data retention from thirty days to five years. New users encounter an opt‑in toggle during sign‑up, while existing users see a pop‑up prompting a choice. Users can manage the setting at any time under Privacy Settings by disabling the “Help improve Claude” switch. Commercial‑tier accounts remain exempt from the new training policy.Weiterlesen

Google has rolled out an update to its AI Mode that lets users search for images using natural, conversational language. The new feature allows shoppers and browsers to describe what they want—like they would to a friend—and receive visual results that can be refined on the fly. Users can also start a search by uploading a reference photo or taking a picture, blending visual cues with text to hone results. The update, powered by Gemini 2.5 and the latest multimodal capabilities, is currently available in English to U.S. users.Weiterlesen

Microsoft has introduced a Security Store that functions as a marketplace for security software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings and AI agents. The store features partners such as Darktrace, Illumio, Netskope, Perfomanta, and Tanium, providing tools for threat protection, identity, and device management. Solutions are designed to integrate tightly with Microsoft’s security suite—including Defender, Sentinel, Entra, Purview, and Security Copilot—streamlining procurement and deployment for businesses that rely on Microsoft platforms. In addition, Security Copilot users can now create custom AI agents through a no‑code workflow, expanding the ecosystem of intelligent security tools available in the store.Weiterlesen

Spotify co‑founder Daniel Ek announced he will leave the chief executive role and become executive chairman on January 1, 2026. Co‑presidents Alex Norström and Gustav Söderström will assume joint CEO duties. Ek said the new position will let him focus on long‑term strategy, capital allocation, and regulatory matters, while the duo will continue reporting to him. The shift comes as Ek’s investment firm Prima Materia backs German drone maker Helsing, prompting a boycott by several artists who object to the company's involvement in AI‑driven military technology.Weiterlesen

Nothing announced Playground, an AI‑driven app store built on Android, alongside its Essential brand of AI‑related products. Users can create simple apps from written prompts, share them, and install them on Nothing phones. While the company calls the effort a step toward an "AI‑native operating system," it remains an interface that runs on Android, not a new OS. Founder and CEO Carl Pei says the vision includes a future creator economy and more proactive phone behavior, but monetization and full‑screen apps are still on the horizon.Weiterlesen

The debut of Tilly Norwood, an AI‑created performer from Xicoia’s AI talent studio, has ignited fierce criticism from Hollywood actors and creators. Industry figures such as Emily Blunt and Whoopi Goldberg have called the move "really scary" and warned that AI actors cannot replicate the nuances of real human performance. Creator Eline Van der Velden defends Norwood as a work of art, urging that she be judged on her own merits. The controversy raises broader questions about AI’s role in film, streaming and the future of creative labor.Weiterlesen

Nothing has unveiled AI‑driven features for its Phone 3 lineup, letting users generate custom apps, widgets and visual designs through natural‑language prompts. The new Nothing Playground creates code on the fly, while Essential Apps serves as a nascent marketplace where these creations can be shared and downloaded. Demonstrations showed the AI crafting a graphic for the phone’s Glyph Matrix display and building simple utilities such as a flight reminder and a hydration tracker. The tools run on Nothing OS 4, which is based on Android, and represent a step toward an AI‑focused operating system.Weiterlesen