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Source: The Verge There’s endless hype around generative AI this year, and app developers have clearly been paying attention. AI-focused tools are blowing up Apple’s App Store charts in almost every category, occupying top 10 rankings across education, productivity, and photo editing. Opportunities are particularly rife for free graphics and design apps, a category that’s…

Source: The Verge Police have arrested Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old software developer, in connection with the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione, of Maryland, was detained at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday morning. Mangione was taken into custody on local firearm charges, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters. He…

Source: The Verge When I first started testing electric vehicles, finding a charging station was the means to an end. I didn’t care what it looked like or what neighborhood it was in — it was a minor miracle that I found a charger, any charger, to juice up. But now consumers want more. Heck,…

Source: The Verge Xiaomi is continuing to dive deeper into China’s competitive EV market with the reveal of a new model, the YU7 SUV, coming in the summer of 2025. The YU7 is an all-electric SUV with a similar design to the SU7 sedan, the electronics giant’s first electric model released earlier this year. That…

Source: The Verge Tucked away in a leafy part of south London, the historic Oval cricket stadium peeking above nearby houses, some 30 developers at Ustwo Games have been striving to solve one of the defining creative conundrums of modern entertainment: how do you balance the familiarity of a beloved franchise with freshness? The problem…

Source: The Verge OpenAI is launching Sora, its text-to-video AI model, on Monday as part of its 12-day “ship-mas” product release series, as The Verge previously reported it would. It’s available today on Sora.com for ChatGPT subscribers in the US and “most other countries,” and a new model, Sora Turbo. This updated model adds features…

Source: The Verge Cath Virginia / The Verge China is investigating Nvidia over antitrust violations, reportedly over claims the chipmaker failed to follow conditions set during China’s approval for its $6.9 billion acquisition of Israeli network hardware company Mellanox in 2020. While announcing the DGX A100 GPU after acquiring Mellanox, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said…

Source: The Verge OpenAI’s highly-anticipated AI text-to-video generator, Sora, will become available to everyone today. In a video posted on Monday, Marques Brownlee confirmed its imminent release and detailed his experience using Sora over the past few weeks, calling the results “horrifying and inspiring at the same time.” OpenAI first revealed Sora in February but…