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-like Sora app and API access for developers would be discontinued, with no plans to roll the feature into ChatGPT as had previously been rumored. According to The Hollywood Reporter, as a result, the deal Disney announced in December, saying it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, license its characters for use …Read the full story at The Verge.

The MacBook Air has been the go-to laptop for many people, thanks to its lightweight and slim design that still manages to pack tons of power and excellent battery life. We had a chance to spend some time with the M4-powered model and really loved it.

It's a well-known fact that Windows 11 is a bloated operating system that's packed with features and apps most people don't want or need. To the point where Microsoft recently promised to clean up some of the unnecessary things it added over time in addition to improving performance.

A little while ago, we heard thatOpenAI was planning a "superapp" that brings all of its apps together. We saw ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas brought under one roof, but for some reason, Sora wasn't listed. At the time, it was easy to assume it was because the Sora app was for mobile devices so that it would live independently of the others. However, OpenAI has now confirmed that it's scrapping the Sora AI app entirely, acting as the first casualty of its consumer apps.

NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft. | AFP via Getty Images NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has big plans for the future of the agency, including the construction of a $20 billion lunar base that he said will establish an "enduring presence" on the Moon. Isaacman announced the news during NASA's Ignition event on Tuesday, where he also described goals to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars, as reported earlier by the New York Times.As a result of plans to establish a base on the Moon, NASA announced that it's pausing its Gateway project "in its current form," which would've launched a space station orbiting the Moon. Instead, NASA plans to "shift focus to infrastructure that enables susta …Read the full story at The Verge.

Meta willfully violated New Mexico law by misleading users about the safety of its products and engaging in an unconscionable trade practice, a jury found. The company will face a $375 million penalty for the violations, awarding the maximum penalty of $5,000 per violation for 37,500 violations across two counts. The jury decided against Meta on every count, though it declined to award a penalty as high as the state sought, which would have been closer to $2 billion.It's a landmark verdict delivered just one day after closing arguments. New Mexico argued that Meta had flouted state law by misleading consumers and facilitating child predato …Read the full story at The Verge.

How good do you think you are with GNOME? Are you skilled enough to, say, land a 12-month stint with the desktop environment and get a large amount of funding on the way? If so, today is your lucky day. GNOME has revealed the Fellowship program, which is offering people $70k-100k to work on it for a year.

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 federal employees from TSA to the Coast Guard are working without pay - or, in the case of TSA, calling out of work, causing staff shortages and hourslong security lines at airports across the country. On Monday, President Donald Trump deployed between 100 …Read the full story at The Verge.

Apple's efforts to rebuild its Apple Intelligence AI platform will make its debut at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8th. A new version of Siri that transforms the voice assistant into a "systemwide AI agent with deep integration across applications" will be announced at WWDC 2026, according to a new report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.The updated version of Siri will be more capable of controlling other apps and features of iOS and macOS and completing user-requested tasks using their personal data gathered from emails, messages, and notes. It will also be better at summarizing daily news from Apple News and will be able to pr …Read the full story at The Verge.

It's no secret that Intel has been doing better with the mobile side of its chipmaking business lately, but perhaps that's about to change. The Core Ultra 200S Plus series is here, with the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus. Launching at low MSRPs, this is a clear attempt to show that Intel is back on course, but it comes at a strange time for the enthusiast PC market, with runaway pricing across every other component.

I used to wait until I had something worth saying before I'd write it down. A meeting would happen, an idea would surface, and I'd let it marinate until it felt complete enough to commit to a note. Then I'd open Notion or Apple Notes, stare at a blank page, and either write three paragraphs or nothing at all.

After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it's producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it's another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud processing for AI tools like AI agents that can continue to spawn more and more tasks to run at once. The first company in line to use it is Meta, which has reportedly struggled to launch its own AI chips.Meta says it's both the lead partner and co-developer, and plans to work on "multiple generations" of the data center CPUs, for use along with hardware from other vendors like Nvidia and AMD. Arm cus …Read the full story at The Verge.