Grant Harvey

OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and we got early access to play with it. It's basically TikTok meets Runway, but you can put your own face in the videosBelow is a recap of our recent hands-on demo of OpenAI's new social media app Sora 2 and how to use it.

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PLUS: OpenAI & Elon both hit $500B (lol)

Periodic Labs raised $300M to build AI scientists that control autonomous robotic labs where they synthesize materials and run real experiments, finally closing the loop between AI reasoning and physical reality by making nature itself the reward function.

PLUS: The bull and bear cases against Sora 2

Turing Award winner Richard Sutton argues that Large Language Models are a dead end of sophisticated mimicry, and true AI will only emerge from agents that learn through direct experience and goal-driven interaction with the world, not from imitating human text.

PLUS: OpenAI drops Sora 2 w/ face-swap cameos + AI bot passes mirror test

In a recent livestream, we at The Neuron put a slew of text-to-speech (TTS) models to the test in a head-to-head showdown using Hugging Face's TTS Arena V2. We threw everything from dad jokes to dramatic monologues at these AI voices to see which ones could truly deliver.

OpenAI wants to build a factory that produces a nuclear power plant's worth of AI compute every single week, and they just announced five new data center sites to make it happen.

Microsoft just opened the AI floodgates by adding Claude to Microsoft 365 Copilot, letting millions of users switch between AI models with a dropdown menu

OpenAI launched Instant Checkout in ChatGPT today, allowing U.S. users to buy products directly through the chatbot without leaving the conversation.

Microsoft just launched Agent Mode in Excel and Word, which handles entire multi-step projects autonomously—like building financial reports or analyzing datasets—instead of just answering questions.