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Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot's image generation tool was used to create an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including 23,000 of minors, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Regulators around the world have limited access or launched investigations into the platform's potentially illegal and nonconsensual image generation. The US


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I arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport nearly five hours before my domestic flight. This is not my way - usually I roll up to the airport 30 minutes before boarding - but not even I have enough hubris to think that my good luck is more powerful than a partial government shutdown. Congress has yet to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, meaning thousands of


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OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date.   

"We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand


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The Val Verde school district had an unusual arrangement with a school in China.
  • Business Insider investigated ties between a California district, a school in China, and education officials.
  • The county education department referred the matter to federal prosecutors.
  • Now, a scathing audit ordered by the county has also been sent to local prosecutors.

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A frame from a Sora 2-generated video. | Image: OpenAI

On Tuesday afternoon, OpenAI announced "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the video generation tool that it launched at the end of 2024, and centered in a massive licensing deal with Disney only a few months ago. The Wall Street Journal reported the move earlier, saying that OpenAI boss Sam Altman had informed staff that both the TikTok


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A TSA agent watches passengers queue to go through security at New York's LaGuardia airport.
  • TSA callout rates at some major airports are up to 40%, while smaller airports remain unscathed.
  • Employees have missed weeks of pay due to the partial government shutdown.
  • Here's why security lines at some airports are worse than others.

Atlanta TSA officer Aaron Barker knows that for


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The author and her husband have three kids under 3.
  • Raising three kids under three left us exhausted and emotionally disconnected.
  • We started quietly keeping score of who was doing more at home.
  • Saying "thank you" daily helped us feel like teammates again.

Recently, due to day care closures, I spent nine hours at home with the kids (without setting foot outside) while my husband


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OpenAI is discontinuing Sora, its AI text-to-video generator.
  • OpenAI announced it is discontinuing its viral video app Sora.
  • The company plans to focus on robotics to solve "real-world, physical tasks," a spokesperson said.
  • Sora's demise followed its lead staffer's description of the project's economics as "unsustainable."

OpenAI is pulling the


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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to accede to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's demands, which eventually led to the legal fight.
  • Anthropic has asked a judge to block the Pentagon from labeling it a supply chain risk.
  • The label could prevent Anthropic from getting lucrative government contracts.
  • On Tuesday, a federal judge called the Department of War's label "troubling."

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The author realized that using a CPAP machine was helping her.
  • I resisted my sleep apnea diagnosis and hated using my CPAP machine.
  • I avoided the full-face mask because I thought it meant failure.
  • Once I found the right mask, my sleep and symptoms improved.

I'd done everything I could think of to not be diagnosed with sleep apnea. Yet here I was at 10:30 p.m., slamming shut the


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