AI & RoboticsNews

OpenAI’s Sora is now available for FREE to all users through Microsoft Bing Video Creator on mobile

June 3, 2025
OpenAI‘s Sora was one of the most hyped releases of the AI era, launching in December 2024, nearly 10 months after it was first previewed to awe-struck reactions due to its — at the time, at least — unprecedented level of realism, camera dynamism, and prompt adherence and 60-second long generation clips. But now OpenAI and its ally/investor/frenemy Microsoft are seeking to bring Sora to far…
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The future of engineering belongs to those who build with AI, not without it

June 2, 2025
When Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff recently announced that the company would not hire any more engineers in 2025, citing a “30% productivity increase on engineering” due to AI, it sent ripples through the tech industry. Headlines quickly framed this as the beginning of the end for human engineers — AI was coming for their jobs.But those headlines miss the mark entirely. What’s really…
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DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

May 30, 2025
The whale has returned. After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release of its hit open source reasoning AI model R1, the Chinese startup DeepSeek — a spinoff of formerly only locally well-known Hong Kong quantitative analysis firm High-Flyer Capital Management — has released DeepSeek-R1-0528, a significant update that brings DeepSeek’s…
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Security leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employed

May 28, 2025
Consulting firms’ accelerating adoption of generative AI to automate knowledge work is sending shockwaves across the industry, triggering workforce shakeups and layoffs.Employees increasingly perceive AI agents as existential threats, fueling anxiety and driving many to build shadow AI apps to preserve their relevance defensively. This month, PwC cut roughly 2% of its U.S. staff, approximately…
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