Abigail Avery

Why OpenAI really shut down Sora

OpenAI’s decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab? According to a new WSJ investigation, the real explanation is considerably…

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‘The Comeback’ Season 3 sneaks in its first-ever ‘Friends’ reference

The Lisa Kudrow multiverse opened wide during The Comeback Season 3, episode 2, as Kudrow’s fictional sitcom star Valerie Cherish made a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to Friends. The reference comes during a production meeting for How’s That?!, Valerie’s new, AI-written multi-cam sitcom. She wants to bring legendary TV director Jimmy Burrows (playing a fictionalized version of…

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