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- If You Thought Sora 1 Was Wild... Meet Sora 2
If You Thought Sora 1 Was Wild... Meet Sora 2
Sora 2 Might Be Fun Today, but a Whole Industry Tomorrow
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OpenAI just dropped Sora 2, and it’s a serious glow-up from the first version — think longer 5–10 second clips, way better physics, and now synced audio with dialogue and sound effects. No more teleporting basketballs; misses actually rebound like in real life. They also launched a new Sora app with a “Cameos” feature that lets you insert yourself into AI videos, remix clips, and basically meme yourself into anything. It’s free in the U.S. and Canada (with limits), but a Pro version and API are on the way. Overall, it feels like a big leap forward for storytelling tools — the question is whether Cameos sticks or fades once the novelty wears off.
OpenAI just dropped Instant Checkout inside ChatGPT, so U.S. users can now shop and pay without ever leaving the chat. It’s powered by Stripe and kicking off with Etsy sellers, with Shopify support for over a million stores on the way. Basically, you’ll see a “Buy” button, tap it, review your order, and pay right there in the convo. The whole system runs on an open-source Agentic Commerce Protocol, so retailers can plug in pretty easily. OpenAI makes money off transaction fees, but product results stay organic. It’s a big move that could mark the start of AI-driven shopping becoming the new norm.
Anthropic just dropped Claude Sonnet 4.5, hyping it as the “best coding model in the world” — and the benchmarks back it up. It crushed SWE-bench, runs nearly 20% better than Opus 4.1 on computer tasks, and even coded nonstop for 30+ hours, cranking out 11,000 lines of code (way beyond GPT-5 Codex’s 7-hour runs). Alongside the model, Anthropic added Claude Code checkpoints, API memory/context editing, and a new Claude Agent SDK. They’re also testing an “Imagine with Claude” preview that whips up software in real time. Big picture: this isn’t just an upgrade — it’s a serious flex in the coding AI arms race.
Meta is spicing up Facebook Dating with AI, rolling out two new features aimed at killing swipe fatigue. The first is a dating assistant chatbot that uses text prompts to surface better matches and even drop profile tips or date ideas. Instead of sticking to basics like age or education, it digs into unique interests to make things more personal. The second, called Meet Cute, skips swiping altogether by delivering a surprise match each week. It’s Meta’s way of standing out from Tinder and Bumble, though the real test will be making sure AI doesn’t serve up awkward, off-base matches.
OpenAI says it’d totally be down to buy Google Chrome—if the courts ever force Google to sell it. The comment came during a major antitrust trial where the DOJ is trying to break up Google’s dominance in online search. Google’s not having it, insisting Chrome isn’t up for grabs and calling the lawsuit bogus. OpenAI previously tried partnering with Google (no luck), and now it’s riding with Microsoft and Bing. Meanwhile, Google’s flexing Gemini, and OpenAI might even be cooking up its own social network. The AI wars just keep getting juicier.
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