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🎥 OpenAI's Sora generates hyperrealistic videos
🚗 Tesla Model Q is coming
🚀 Blue Origin's biggest rocket to launch soon
🤖 Tesla's Optimus robot can walk autonomously
💰 Amazon should consider buying Bitcoin, shareholders say
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🎥 OpenAI's Sora generates hyperrealistic videosLINK
OpenAI has launched its AI video creation tool, Sora Turbo, for ChatGPT subscribers, allowing users to produce 20-second photorealistic videos, raising concerns about the potential increase in deepfakes.
The Sora video generator will not be released in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK at this time, likely due to regulatory challenges associated with previous OpenAI products.
OpenAI has implemented measures to prevent misuse of the tool, such as watermarks and verification metadata, with initial limits on uploading imagery of individuals to address deepfake concerns.
🚗 Tesla Model Q is comingLINK
The anticipated Tesla Model Q is expected to debut in the first half of 2025, with a price under $30,000 thanks to subsidies, according to Deutsche Bank's report.
This potential new addition aims to be smaller and lighter than the Model 3, supporting Tesla's strategy to expand its affordable vehicle lineup and accelerate market growth.
While Elon Musk has not confirmed a non-robotaxi, $25,000 model, the reported Model Q reflects the ambitious plans to introduce cost-effective options amidst competition from brands like BYD and Volkswagen.
🚀 Blue Origin's biggest rocket to launch soonLINK
Blue Origin plans to launch its New Glenn rocket by the end of 2024, pending regulatory approval and a successful "hot fire" test of the rocket's first stage engines.
The towering 320-foot New Glenn can carry 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit, making it more powerful than competitors like United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur and SpaceX's Falcon Heavy.
The maiden flight will test the Blue Ring orbital transfer vehicle demonstrator, fulfilling part of certification needed for carrying national security payloads for the Space Force.
🤖 Tesla's Optimus robot can walk autonomouslyLINK
Tesla's Optimus robot can now walk autonomously on uneven ground, using neural networks to control limb movements instead of being remotely operated.
The robot navigated rough mulch-covered hills without video assistance, indicating its ability to maintain balance and adapt to challenging surfaces.
Tesla plans to enhance Optimus by adding vision systems and improving its natural gait and responsiveness to commands like speed and direction changes.
💰 Amazon should consider buying Bitcoin, shareholders sayLINK
Amazon shareholders have proposed adding Bitcoin to the company's balance sheet, inspired by MicroStrategy's successful Bitcoin investment, which led to a significant increase in its stock price.
The proposal suggests that Amazon should explore the advantages of holding at least 5% of its assets in Bitcoin, as more companies and entities, like Tesla and the U.S. government, show growing interest in cryptocurrency investments.
The think tank argues that despite Bitcoin's volatility, it offers better potential returns than traditional bonds, with Bitcoin’s price having increased by 131% over the past year.
Other news you might like
Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup.LINK
This French DNA data startup wants to store all of humanity's data in something as small as a data center rack.LINK
Amazon is officially in the online car sales business.LINK
Microsoft touts next-gen data centers that don’t consume water for cooling.LINK
Xiaomi's newest Tesla-rivaling EV will launch next summer.LINK
Mercedes is working on "solar paint" that could drastically reduce the need for charging.LINK
Latest research and tools
Bazel 8.0: a major LTS release that requires using load statements for external rules, moves many bundled rules to separate repositories, and disables the default WORKSPACE mechanism in favor of Bzlmod for managing dependencies.LINK
BareMetal OS: an exokernel-based operating system designed in x86-64 assembly to provide developers direct access to hardware for high performance and control in computing tasks.LINK
Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space: researchers explored how large language models can be trained to reason effectively by representing information in a continuous latent space.LINK
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