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Microsoft Brings Sora AI Video Generation to Bing Mobile App for Free
Microsoft has quietly integrated OpenAI's groundbreaking Sora video generation model into the Bing mobile experience, offering users the ability to create AI-generated videos directly from their...
OpenAI Sora App Hits #3 on US App Store, Revolutionizing Generative Video
OpenAI's Sora app has achieved a remarkable milestone, surging to the #3 position on the US App Store's Top Overall chart within just 48 hours of its iOS debut. The generative video application...
Microsoft Accidentally Reveals 'Windows AI Labs' Program in Paint, but Backend Remains Offline
On September 18, some Windows 11 users encountered an unexpected pop-up in Microsoft Paint: "Try experimental AI features in Paint: Sign up for Windows AI Labs programme for Paint in Settings." The...
Steam's Unwritten Ban: Adult Games Denied Early Access as Payment Pressure Mounts
Two indie game studios have confirmed this month that Valve is now blocking mature-themed games from entering Steam Early Access, the platform’s program for selling unfinished titles. The...
Meta Sued by Lawyer Named Mark Zuckerberg After $11,000 in Ads Wasted During Account Suspensions
Meta is facing a lawsuit from a bankruptcy attorney in Indiana who shares a name with its CEO—and says the platform repeatedly disabled his Facebook business page, costing him thousands of dollars...
No Cash, Just ID: Microsoft Opens Store to All Individual Developers Free of Charge
Microsoft has just erased the $19 registration fee for solo developers publishing to the Microsoft Store, replacing the old credit card requirement with a government ID and selfie-based identity...
Microsoft's Three-Day RTO and Speech Clampdown: Inside the AI-First Reset
Microsoft has begun enforcing a three-day-a-week office requirement for thousands of employees within commuting distance of its Redmond headquarters, the initial phase of a global mandate that will...
NewsGuard’s De-Anonymized Audit Exposes How Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Copilot Amplify Fake News at 35% Rate
A year-long red-teaming audit by NewsGuard has laid bare a startling deterioration in AI chatbot accuracy: the top 10 consumer chatbots now repeat false claims in 35% of their news-related responses,...
Microsoft Answers Is Dead—1.6 Million Questions Are Now Behind AI Gatekeepers
The answers.microsoft.com domain no longer belongs to the community forum that millions of Windows users relied on for troubleshooting help. As of early September 2025, the URL redirects permanently...
Google Dominates A16z's Consumer AI Ranking as Grok and Vibe Coding Startups Disrupt
Andreessen Horowitz dropped its fifth bi-annual Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps ranking in late August, and the numbers tell a story that’s been simmering beneath the hype: the consumer AI market is...
Missouri AG Demands AI Giants Hand Over Chatbot Ranking Secrets in Trump Bias Probe
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an unprecedented legal broadside against artificial intelligence developers, sending formal demand letters to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta...
Azure’s 48-Hour Ultimatum to Gab: The 2018 Confrontation That Redefined Cloud Moderation
On a Tuesday morning in early August 2018, the social network Gab received an email that would expose the raw nerve of cloud governance. Microsoft’s Azure team had filed an urgent complaint: two...